A lawsuit against Trump’s Inauguration Committee was launched by the District of Columbia’s Attorney General, Karl Racin. The lawsuit is over an alleged misuse of funds by the Inaugural Committee, a not for profit organization which raised $107 million dollars, the most raised by any other Inaugural Committee. Allegedly the Inaugural Committee grossly overpaid for event space at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. during Trump’s 2017 inauguration.
The lawsuit was filed in January 2020, in a D.C. Superior Court. In December of 2020, the AG took a deposition of Ivanka Trump, the former President’s daughter and trusted advisor. After the deposition, Ivanka Trump took to Twitter to undermine the allegations calling them a “politically motivated demonstration of vindictiveness and a waste of taxpayer dollars”.
In response to new evidence, AG Karl Racine has requested to depose Donald Trump Jr., the former President’s eldest son, who had been running the day-to-day operations of the Trump Organization while his father was in office. The original civil complaint alleges $1 million worth of misused funds.
However according to the Washington Post, just a few weeks ago Rancine added another allegation to the suit, claiming that Trump used non-profit Inaugural Committee funds to pay a $49,000 overdue bill racked up by the Trump Organization, a for-profit company. The D.C. Attorney General has requested that the improperly used funds be donated to charity. We’ll have to wait and see how the lawsuit progresses over the following months.
