CNN’s Toobin Questions What Happened to Trump Inauguration Funds: ‘Did Someone Steal the Money?’

On Thursday, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin pointed out that the Trump Inauguration planners have some fairly basic questions to answer about where the money collected for the Inauguration festivities went, including “did someone steal the money?”

“What is the biggest legal issue here [when it comes to Trump Inauguration funds], as far as you see, the accounting of the money or perhaps the idea there was some pay to play?” CNN host John Berman asked.

Toobin replied, “I think the first question is, did someone steal the money? If the money didn’t go to salaries if the money didn’t go to events, did someone put it in their pocket? That’s a straightforward factual issue that an audit should be able to determine.”

He then said that there were other questions that needed to be asked.

“Then you get into the other subsidiary questions, which are, was there some sort of improper motive, improper connection between donors and what they got,” he continued on. “It is worth remembering that our whole political system at some level is based on pay to play. People give money to the inaugural — for mixed motives at best. So I think that is very much a subsidiary question, unlikely to be proven improper.”

Then circling back to possible theft,  Toobin stressed: “But if somebody stole the money, they stole the money and that’s obviously a crime.”

Toobin’s comments come amid growing questions about donations to the Trump Inaugural Committee and where — and who — the money collected ultimately benefited.

Watch above, via CNN

 

 

 

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