With Donald Trump running for president for a third time, more and more people are focusing on his Save America PAC. Their biggest concern? How the committee’s funds are being spent. Folks have already noticed one pricey line item that doesn’t really have to do with Trump. This time it involves former first lady, Melania Trump.

In the last six months of 2023, Melania Trump’s stylist, Herve Pierre Braillard, reportedly received payments totaling over $100,000 from Donald Trump’s Super PAC, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.

The payments were made in eight installments of $18,000, along with one payment of $6,000 labeled as “Strategy Consulting.” This brings the total amount earned by Pierre from Trump’s Save America leadership PAC since April 2022 to $371,000.

Herve Pierre, a French-American fashion designer who previously worked for Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta, has been associated with the former first lady since Trump’s time in office. He is best known for designing the ivory gown, which she wore to her husband’s inaugural ball in January 2017.

🚨Trump's Save America leadership PAC raised $6.6M and had $30M refunded by the MAGA, Inc. SuperPAC. It burned $35.2M (over $25M on legal fees, and another $110.5K to Melania's stylist Herve Pierre Braillard for 'strategy consulting'), ending w/$5.14M on hand. pic.twitter.com/3AnqCUIgSy

— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) February 1, 2024

And Braillard has been making a lot of money since the Trumps left the White House in January 2021.

According to SheKnows, the PAC’s 2022 financial filing showed eight payments ranging from $6,000 to $18,000 to Braillard for “strategy consulting.” All that “consulting” totaled $132,000, Fox News Digital reported.

Friends, that’s one heck of a lot of money for shampoo and whatever else Braillard does for Melania. And it looks to be a violation of Federal Election Commission regulations. The FEC “does not allow candidate committees, which are formed to raise money for a specific candidate, to spend money on personal items, including clothing,” USAToday reports. And no matter how special Donald and Melania Trump think they are, they aren’t exempt from these rules. And frankly, that so-called “strategy consulting” sounds like the couple is trying to avoid paying Pierre out of their pockets. A bit grifty, don’t you think?

This isn’t the first time Pierre has been in hot water for receiving huge sums of money from Trump’s PAC. In August 2021, he defended his work for Melania to WWD. “As with every other first lady, there is an after-the-White House life, which involves many other aspects than fashion. I am lucky to have worked in prestigious houses, to have designed [costumes] for ballets, and more recently to work in home decor. There are many upcoming projects in this after-the-White House [stage].”

So almost $400,000 for Melania’s stylist? And Trump’s donors are okay with this?

Now, the Federal Elections Commission doesn’t allow PACs to pay for personal items, but for leadership PACs like Save America, the rules are a bit less restrictive. Seems like there’s a loophole in there somewhere that needs to get tied up a little better.

Incredibly, despite Trump's cash crunch, his Save America leadership PAC shelled out another $108,000 in the first six months of the year for Melania Trump's stylist, Herve Pierre Braillard, while insisting to the FEC that it's for 'strategy consulting'. pic.twitter.com/tWL9gmFIQF

— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) July 31, 2023

There is, of course, the expectation that first ladies keep up appearances during their time in the White House and after they leave, but as She Knows reports “it shouldn’t come from an election fund where Pierre is obviously billing top dollar. And when in the world do we even see Melania do “post White House events?” She basically remains hidden. If we see her it’s darting from her U.S. government paid Secret Service limo to her apartment at Trump Tower. That’s it. She doesn’t do anything to benefit the country or the her citizens.

Pierre and the Trumps had no comment for Fox News Digital, but the paper is telling “a very damning story.”

Sure looks that way, now doesn’t it? But what will happen this time? Seems to me like Donald Trump has skated right through a lot of things with little or no trouble at all. And aren’t these people billionaires? Why aren’t they paying for their own stylists?