Donald Trump has hired “tremendous numbers of women” in his time. Tremendous numbers! We know this not from looking at the actual data, which somewhat contradicts these claims, but because he has told us so himself.

To be fair, the former president does seem to be a champion of certain working women. Trump’s wife and his female relatives have been getting paid extraordinary amounts of money for “work” relating to his campaign. According to a recent financial disclosure form, for example, Melania Trump was paid $237,500 for an April “speaking engagement” by the Log Cabin Republicans, a conservative LGBTQ group. A CNN report this week, however, notes that the president of the Log Cabin Republicans has said they didn’t actually put up the money for Melania Trump to speak, so it’s unclear who exactly the source of the payment was. In other words: it’s exactly the sort of opaque and ethically dubious situation you’d expect to find the Trumps in.

Melania Trump isn’t the only member of the clan getting paid eyebrow-raising amounts of money to share her words of wisdom. Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former prosecutor and television presenter who is now engaged to Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr, was paid $60,000 for introducing her fiance at a “Stop the Steal” rally on 6 January 2021, just before the Capitol riots. Which seems rather generous considering her speech was less than three minutes long.

It’s not clear whether Guilfoyle is still getting paid $20,000 a minute to shout talking points on Trump’s behalf. However, she has been a prominent part of........

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