For months, Donald J. Trump has highlighted his credentials as a politician who was financing his own campaign for president.
No longer.
Mr. Trump revealed in a filing Thursday to the Federal Election Commission that the vast majority of the money he raised and spent this summer as he rose to the top of national polls came not from his own coffers, as it had in the spring, but from about $3.7 million in what he called “unsolicited contributions.” Some 74,000 donors pitched in an average of about $50 to help his campaign, he reported.
Mr. Trump himself contributed only about $100,000 in in-kind contributions, including rent space that he donated and payroll expenses that he covered. That represented a huge drop from the spring, when Mr. Trump donated about $1.9 million to his campaign, financing the bulk of it himself.
“I don’t need anybody’s money,” he declared when he announced his candidacy in June. “I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich.”
Not so rich, however, that he couldn’t use some help nowadays.
Cruz to lose.
So, let me see... if someone who donates $50 calls him up do you think the money buys him anything? I think Trump will do the right thing. Anyhow, Trump is spending his own money on TV ads now. Does that make you feel better? Got anything else.