December 27, 2023      2:02 PM
Report: Trump wants millions from MAGA group headed up by Brooke Rollins of TPPF fame
In Rolling
Stone today:
HIS FORMER AIDE has been
making bank off his name for years and he wants his
cut, right now. At least that’s how former President Donald Trump sees it.
“It’s my fucking money!”
the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner privately vented in October,
referring to an alleged sum in the tens of millions of dollars, a source with
direct knowledge of the matter tells Rolling Stone.
Trump wasn’t talking about
a business deal. Rather, he’s been grumbling about money donated to a think
tank his former staffers and allies founded in 2021 to “advance the America
First agenda.”
For several months now,
according to three people with knowledge of the situation, the former president
has complained to an array of confidants and Republicans about the millions
raised by the America First Policy Institute, a MAGAfied
think tank launched near the start of his post-presidency. The nonprofit is
populated by several former high-ranking Trump administration officials,
including Larry Kudlow, Rick Perry, and Linda McMahon, and it’s led by Brooke
Rollins, who served as a top White House domestic policy aide to Trump. AFPI is
one of several Trump-aligned organizations and think tanks working to craft an
intellectual framework for hardline policies, ranging from voter crackdowns to
potentially invading Mexico.
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