Image: President Donald Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp.Ken Cedeno / AFP via Getty Images

Chris Walker of Truthout reports: “The Campaign Legal Center (CLC), a nonprofit whose stated aim is to defend democracy, has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) regarding monetary “gifts” from President Donald Trump to a handful of White House staffers.

Trump made payments of $45,000 each to Natalie Harp, his doting executive assistant who rarely leaves his side; Chamberlain Harris, his deputy director of Oval Office operations; and Margo Martin, a White House communications adviser. Trump also gifted $20,000 to Walt Nauta, his longtime aide and confidante, who was implicated in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents scandal before that case was dropped by the Department of Justice (DOJ) after Trump returned to office…”

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