Campaign web sites often sell merch. But the money belongs to the campaign, not the individual. And it's treated as a donation by the FEC, so you can't use it t

Campaign web sites often sell merch. But the money belongs to the campaign, not the individual. And it's treated as a donation by the FEC, so you can't use it to get around campaign finance limits. I recall that there was a lot of complaining that Obama made a fair bit of money on book sales while in office.