Mr. Trump’s campaign paid consultants at least $10 million last month, the filing shows, up from $1.5 million in June. The biggest beneficiary: a San Antonio-based web-marketing firm, called Giles Parscale, that the campaign paid $8.3 million for “digital consulting/online advertising.”
Brad Parscale, the firm’s president, serves as the Trump campaign’s digital director. He doesn’t draw a separate paycheck, according to the filing.
In June, the campaign paid that firm $543,000. The firm, which before 2016 had never worked for a presidential campaign, collected more than $4.1 million from the Trump campaign through June, much of it for “website development.”
Mr. Trump also for the first time began paying a firm for fundraising consulting. It paid $100,000 to the Prosper Group Corporation, an Indiana firm whose previous clients include Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity.
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