An aide to former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign is now alleging that millions of dollars in campaign donations were paid out to an untold number of women and that a law firm helped cover it up.
The Daily Beast
reported on a recent court filing by A.J. Delgado, a senior advisor to Trump's first campaign for the presidency who also worked on his presidential transition team. In the filing, Delgado accused the campaign of sex discrimination, saying that she was sidelined after it became known she was pregnant. The
Beast reported that the father of Delgado's child is Trump advisor Jason Miller, whom Delgado says sexually assaulted her (Miller has denied the allegation).
However, one portion of the filing raised the antennae of a nonpartisan anti-corruption watchdog group. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in response to Delgado's claims that the campaign used a law firm to act as a "middleman" to funnel payments to women "who raised complaints of gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, and sexual harassment." Those payments were notably marked as legal expenses, though Delgado's filing claimed that was a ruse (this is
very similar to the scheme Trump is accused of in his Manhattan trial).
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