it comes to presidential politics. on trump s first day in office he started raising money for his reelection campaign, and some of that donor money poured right into his businesses. in 2018, you would say today said washington hotel taken $351,000 during his first year in office. about 60% of that came from the republican national committee to host events at the hotel. trump also has a history of using charitable donations for his own benefit. in 2019 new york times, excuse, me new york judge find trump $2 million after the trump foundation misused donations meant 4chan charity. the npr reported at the time, quote, the case is tied to a televised fund-raiser for veterans held by trump in iowa when he was running for president. trump said the funds raised would beach distributed to charities, but according to two court documents, the trump foundation improperly use nearly $3 million it received from that fund-raiser and now a year and a half after trump s 2020 election defeat
election. specifically, they re looking at the state of georgia where he asked raffensperger, we remember, this to quote, find him enough votes to win, and in that now infamous phone call. we will be hearing from raffensperger and his deputy, gabriel sterling, a name we know well as well. focusing on the pressure trump put on the former vice president, mike pence, to not certify the election. now one member of the january 6th committee praised pence this morning for resisting trump s pressure. in a time of the scandalous betrayal of people in office and crimes being committed all over the place. somebody who does their job will stand out as a hero on the day. i think on that day he was a hero for resisting all of the pressure campaigns and the course of efforts to get him to play along with this continuation of the big lie. this big joke that he could somehow call off all the proceedings himself. all the public hearing so far, they ve shown the former president is this re