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A $50,000 photo with Trump

Judd Legum
Mar 26, 2019
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One of the biggest rackets in politics is selling access to candidates at high-dollar fundraisers. For many people, however, meeting the candidate isn't enough. They want to be able to leverage the meeting as proof of their power and connections. So campaigns started selling "photo opportunities."

It's an unseemly but perfectly legal practice used by pol…

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