Billionaire Donald Trump gave $10,000 to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help pay off his campaign debts, a little more than a month after the governor guest-starred on Trump’s TV show “The Apprentice: Los Angeles.”

This is very very suspicious that Schwarzenegger is using his celebrity status to pay off campaign debts…  And not good practice for both Trump to give, and Arnold to accept. This has been pretty heavily reported, but I’ve thought about it and decided that it’s just bunk and people out to make Schwarzenegger look bad.

Let’s face the facts.   Schwarzenegger IS a celebrity - and many celebrities get paid to be a “GUEST” host for a show. It’s common practice.  Hell, you can hire Britney Spears to come to your house if you have enough money.  Now you might be saying that it’s wrong since Schwarzenegger is now a public official.  As long as he was still doing his job while he was “working” for Trump… it’s none of your business.  Period.

If he had a side job slinging hamburgers to pay the power bills (if you live in CA you get it), that wouldn’t bother a soul.
It would have been easier on both of them if Trump had just paid Arnold directly.

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