Inside Ronna McDaniel’s Six-Figure Severance From the RNC

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As former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel fights for full payment on her unfulfilled six-figure NBC contract, she at least has a nice financial cushion from the RNC to fall back on.

On March 6, two days before Donald Trump’s RNC takeover deposed his handpicked former chair, McDaniel received a payment of $118,769.99, according to disclosures just recently filed with the Federal Election Commission. Those records show that the sum is the single largest payment to McDaniel that the committee has ever reported, amounting to nearly half of her combined regular payroll earnings last year.

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