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Shake Up

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Trial Balloon · Ep. 195: Shake Up

Trump Campaign Pays Legal Fees for Ex-Bodyguard

April 17, 2018 · 4:06 pm ET · Leave a Comment

President Trump’s campaign “paid more than $66,000 to the law firm that represents Keith Schiller, his former longtime bodyguard,” NBC News reports.

“Schiller, who left a White House job in September, testified to the House Intelligence Committee in November that someone made an offer to send five women to Trump’s hotel room in Moscow in the lead-up to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant…. Schiller painted the incident in a light favorable to Trump, saying he turned down the offer on Trump’s behalf, treated it as a joke and no women ever came, as far as he was aware.”

Schiller is also paid $15,000 a month by the Republican National Committee.

2020 Campaign Keith Schiller

Ex-Trump Bodyguard Paid $15K a Month by RNC

February 21, 2018 · 2:30 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“When President Trump’s longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller decided to leave his White House job last fall, many in the West Wing wondered how the president would manage without his personal security chief-turned-confidant, who had been working for Trump nearly 20 years,” NBC News reports.

“As it turns out, Schiller didn’t go very far. Within weeks of leaving his job as director of Oval Office operations, Schiller’s private security firm, KS Global Group, began collecting $15,000 a month for ‘security services’ from the Republican National Committee.”

Republicans, White House Keith Schiller

Russian Offered to Send 5 Women to Trump’s Hotel Room

November 9, 2017 · 2:24 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“After a business meeting before the Miss Universe Pageant in 2013, a Russian participant offered to ‘send five women’ to Donald Trump’s hotel room in Moscow, his longtime bodyguard told Congress this week,” NBC News reports.

” Two of the sources said the bodyguard, Keith Schiller, viewed the offer as a joke, and immediately responded, ‘We don’t do that type of stuff.'”

“That night, two sources said, Schiller said he discussed the conversation with Trump as Trump was walking back to his hotel room, and Schiller said the two men laughed about it as Trump went to bed alone.”

White House Keith Schiller

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Trump Bodyguard Faces Questions About Moscow Trip

November 3, 2017 · 9:03 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“One of President Trump’s most trusted confidants, a security chief who served as his sounding board for nearly two decades, will face questions from congressional investigators next week about Trump’s 2013 trip to Moscow,” the Washington Post reports.

“The excursion is at the center of some of the most salacious allegations contained in a now-famous dossier, which contains unverified charges that Trump has vehemently disputed.”

White House Keith Schiller

Investigators Want to Talk to Trump’s Bodyguard

June 29, 2017 · 8:06 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Congressional investigators now want to interview Keith Schiller, President Trump’s longtime bodyguard-turned-White House aide, as part of their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign,” sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.

“It’s the latest indication that the investigations are touching Trump’s inner circle.”

White House Keith Schiller, Russia

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