Controversial Georgia Republican House Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign credit card usage is now under intense scrutiny after the card was apparently linked to a highly suspicious financial transaction that involved the likes of anti-Semitic rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and ultra-far-Right extremist and former MTG intern Milo Yiannopoulos, according to bombshell new reporting from The Daily Beast.
The explosive new Beast report alleges that Yiannopoulos used the credit card connected to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign to purchase an internet domain for Kayne West’s still unannounced 2024 presidential campaign, back in November. The publication went on to cite not only receipts but additional information from an inside source with knowledge of the matter, reporting that West’s not-yet-official campaign reimbursed Yiannopoulos an amount that was $9,955 – $3,000 above cost for “domain transfer.”
The report reveals, “Legal experts told The Daily Beast that the transactions raise a number of questions, including about possible theft and conversion of campaign funds to personal use.”
As it stands, the Beast is unable to confirm whether or not Marjorie Taylor Greene or her campaign was aware of the suspicious transaction that took place on the congresswoman’s campaign credit card.
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According to the receipts obtained and reviewed by the publication, Greene adviser Isaiah Wartman was billed a staggering $7,020.16 by GoDaddy for the purchase of ye24.com.” The Beast spoke with an individual who claimed to have insider knowledge of the incident, who told the publication that Yiannopoulos was solely responsible for managing the highly suspicious and pricey transaction on Greene’s campaign credit card.
Campaign finance law expert Brendan Fischer weighed in on the matter and called the incident “an excessive and unreported in-kind contribution to his campaign.”
Fischer went on to add that if Yiannopoulos, who served a stent as an adviser to Kanye West in addition to his time as a Greene intern, used the congresswoman’s campaign credit card without anyone else’s knowledge, “then he may have committed a range of serious violations — including, potentially, causing Greene’s campaign to file false reports with the government.”
Federal Election Commission rules dictate that any and all transactions totaling over $5,000 automatically trigger the pre-set campaign registration requirements. West, who infamously launched a truly catastrophic and failed 2020 presidential bid, has yet to actually formally announce his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. West also has yet to file any of the necessary and required paperwork to navigate any campaign finances, such as website domains.
“While Ye has in recent months used the context of his 2020 campaign to court media attention around a potential 2024 run —spending hundreds of thousands of dollars while raising none — he has still not declared his candidacy or registered with the FEC,” the Beast reports.
To make matters that much more suspicious still, this sketchy transaction reportedly took place on the very same day that West participated in the infamous and highly-controversial dinner with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort, where the notorious white supremacist Nick Fuentes was also in attendance, in his capacity as an advisor to West.
Yiannopoulos has since publicly claimed credit for facilitating the infamous dinner, but has repeatedly asserted that he did not attend. Yiannopoulos was subsequently fired by the rapper just days after the notorious Mar-a-Lago dinner, after Yiannopoulos declared to the media that the entire goal of the dinner was to “make Trump’s life miserable.”
However, The Daily Beast reported just last week that Yiannopoulos has now returned to West’s committee of advisers.
You can read the full bombshell report from The Daily Beast here.
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