The Trump inaugural committee is facing scrutiny over the payments.
The non-profit that organized President Donald Trump’s inauguration paid the Trump Organization for rooms, meals and event space, according to an investigation by ProPublica and WNYC.
According to the report, the president’s daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump was involved in negotiating how much Trump’s Washington D. C. hotel charged for venue rentals in the run-up-to the January 2017 inauguration.
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Ivanka Trump connected Rick Gates, who acted as the deputy to the chairman of President Trump’s inaugural committee, to the manager of the hotel, who suggested a price of $175,000 per day for hiring the hotel’s presidential ballroom.
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