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https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/348803-trump-jr-getting-100k-to-speak-at-unt%3famp"President Trump's eldest son will receive $100,000 later this year to speak at the University of North Texas for their Kuehne Speaker Series, the university's student newspaper reports.
The North Texas Daily reported on Thursday thatDonald Trump Jr. will receive $100,000 for a 30-minute lecture followed by a Q&A section and a VIP photo opportunity. Trump Jr. will be given the questions to the session ahead of time, according to the paper.
The contract signed by Trump Jr. also provides for up to $5,000 in lodging and transportation.
The report comes as Texas continues to recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.
Trump Jr. is currently at the center of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia after news broke in July that Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had met with a Kremlin-linked attorney to discuss incriminating information aboutHillary Clinton.".....(more)
Ethics, schmethics.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)paid for by Carl Ichan? Or Paul Singer?
TheBlackAdder
(28,255 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)required Convocations. Remember having to put up with a Nixon one in 1959.
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He isn't worth $1,000. How on earth is he getting that much and who brokered that deal? How is this family of grifters getting away with robbing this country blind?
TexasTowelie
(112,687 posts)He should be able to find a first class hotel and transportation for less than $1,000.
While UNT doesn't have a strong liberal tradition there are enough Democrats there that some of them will protest. $100,000 is way too much for a public university to pay for someone with his lack of experience and dubious connections.
Tanuki
(14,930 posts)multiple Secret Service Agents.
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)They were trying to hide it
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,255 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,255 posts)global1
(25,296 posts)SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)every penny he can get his tiny hands on to pay for legal fees, and "putting food on his family" while he's IN PRISON!
So here's to 'ya Junior. You'll be very popular on the cell-block, and your training about bribery working alongside Daddy will come in very handy while incarcerated.
Tanuki
(14,930 posts)that Crook45 modeled at all the Harvey events will be funneled into CrookJr's astronomical legal fees. Meanwhile, storm-ravaged Texas taxpayers will be soaked once again so that the students at NTU can learn the Three Rs---reading, racketeering, and 'rithmetic.