Inside Trump’s $100,000 Watch Scheme

Jonathan Last: “There’s one tiny chink in the legal armor: Foreign countries are not permitted to donate to American political campaigns.”

“There is nothing to stop, say, Saudi Arabia from buying 50 Trump Watches.”

“But even this would probably be kosher.”

“For starters, how would anyone outside of the Saudis know? They could make the purchase using Bitcoin and take delivery through a cutout. They’d have to pass word to Trump (through Jared?) that they had pushed $5 million in his direction through the watch hustle.”

“And even then—if you had ironclad proof of all of this—that money would have been given to the watch vendor for eventual disbursement to Trump as an individual and not to the Trump 2024 presidential campaign.”