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Where Donald Trump Is Spending His Campaign Funds (Hint: His Bodyguard Really Likes McDonald’s)
The Street ^
| 10/18/2015
| Emily Stewart
Posted on 10/18/2015 5:20:57 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
For a guy worth billions of dollars, Donald Trump is actually kind of frugal -- at least when it comes to spending on his presidential campaign.
His quarterly campaign finance report, filed Thursday with the Federal Election Committee, reveals the Republican frontrunner's presidential campaign spent $4.2 million from July through September. While that is three times the amount doled out the quarter before, it is still significantly less than a number of his rivals, including Ben Carson (who spent $14.2 million), Jeb Bush ($11.5 million) and Bernie Sanders ($11.3 million).
Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, spent over six times more than Trump at $25.8 million. And according to Trump, this is one more piece of proof of just how awesome a president he will be.
"While our original budget was substantially higher than the amount spent, good business practices and even better ideas and policy have made it unnecessary to have spent a larger sum," he said in a statement. "To be number one in every poll, both state and national, and to have spent the least amount of dollars of any serious candidate is a testament of what I can do for America."
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump; trumpcampaignfinance
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Trump is an impressive business man!
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Amazing how much more responsible people are when they have to spend their own money instead of spending other people’s money
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:23:05 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
This is so refreshing...better than a summer breeze!
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:24:46 PM PDT
by
Boardwalk
To: MNJohnnie
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:24:59 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
What is Hillary spending the money on?
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:25:52 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: MNJohnnie
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
BFAC, you are soooo right!
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:26:46 PM PDT
by
vette6387
To: Cboldt
To: vette6387
To: MNJohnnie
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:28:38 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
(Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
To: faithhopecharity
Yeah never said it was good for ya but it is cheapest eats in town.
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:30:34 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.)
To: Cboldt
What is Hillary spending the money on? Alcohol and plastic surgery.
CC
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:30:46 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(Lightspeed: 186,000 miles per second. It's not just a good idea, it's THE LAW!* *= ecomcon proofread)
To: MNJohnnie
Amazing how much more responsible people are when they have to spend their own money instead of spending other peoples money My first reaction too.
Trump flies in his own aircraft and eats at Micket D's on his own dime.
King Opie and Queen Moochie fly hither and thither and yon on AF-1 to pig out on Kobe steak and lobster on the taxpayers backs.
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:31:12 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Cboldt
It takes a lot of money to look that good.
(imagine what she'd look like without spending the money)
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:31:39 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
For a guy worth billions of dollars, Donald Trump is actually kind of frugal That's probably part of how he got to be worth billions.
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:33:49 PM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(It's time to repeal and replace the GOP)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
I guess the other candidates have released figures on where they are spending their money also. I just have missed them.
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:34:54 PM PDT
by
Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
To: MNJohnnie
That is so true. If there salaries were based on a factor like frugality or balanced budget.instead of automatically being increased etc we might see some responsible leadership
To: MNJohnnie
Amazing how much more responsible people are when they have to spend their own money instead of spending other peoples money.It's so true. When I take people to dinner and pick up the tab, there's a lot of filet mignon and $12 martinis getting ordered. When we "go Dutch" - suddenly those same people are having a chicken sandwich and a beer.
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:35:29 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
To: Duchess47
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:36:52 PM PDT
by
proust
(If Obama was accused of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict him?)
To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Hint: His Bodyguard Really Likes McDonalds
Joke, right?
I'm not one of the morons here who assumes Trump is an idiot.
Herbert Walker Boosch, W's father, was CIA. He knows all about assassination.
We don't know the secrets kept by the Boosch clan, but I suspect they don't want them outed by a renegade like Trump.
You get where I'm going with this.
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posted on
10/18/2015 5:38:34 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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