Posted on 02/01/2016 1:15:54 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump raised $13.6 million in the fourth fundraising quarter, according to the campaign's filing with the Federal Election Commission.
Trump, who often boasts about that he is self-funding his campaign, loaned his campaign $10.8 million, leaving his operation with nearly $7 million in cash-on-hand.
The campaign reported that it spent nearly $7 million during the fourth quarter alone. It raised $2.6 million beyond Trump's loan. Most came from small dollar donations.
The campaign owes $12.6 million to Trump himself.
The filing shows that the Trump campaign spent nearly $500,000 on hats, primarily on the red caps featuring the popular slogan "Make America Great Again."
The real estate mogul's filing comes less than 24 hours before the Iowa caucuses, where Trump holds a slight lead in polls over Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
“Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump funded his campaign over the past three months with the help of $10.8 million in loans the billionaire made to his campaign, according to reports.
The billionaire real estate tycoon donated $100,000 to his campaign and also raised $2.6 million from supporters mostly in Florida and California, NBC News reported
Trump’s campaign said in the previous quarter that it raised $3.8 million and had $225,000 cash on hand, spending just $100,000 of his own money and enjoying free media coverage.
The celebrity candidate often boasts that he is self-funding his campaign and draws large amounts of national and local media attention compared to his GOP rivals.
Trump spent $306,000 in the latest quarter on payroll and channeled $60,000 to a consulting firm run by his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, according to NBC News.
He listed another $550,000 for field consulting and $82,500 for policy consulting.
The financials were released late Sunday night on the eve of the Iowa caucus.”
GL ping.
Someone already posted the appropriate meme :)
FEC regulations are a poor fit for someone paying their own way.
That’s why Trump has to loan himself $$$ and even has to charge himself $$$ to ride on his own plane.
It’s silly but has to be done to play along with regs meant for those who need to fund-raise.
Thanks for posting the (should be obvious) intelligent answer to this nothing burger story :)
Hillary is going to make ads showing Trump praising her? Don’t think it would matter, he could write that commercial himself and it would look good. Trump also did a lot of business with China. Are voters going to hold that against him too? No, he brags about it in every speech.
>>I’m not sure how you think he has failed at leadership...?
Leadership is more than trying. It is doing and motivating others to follow you because you have qualities that they desire in a leader.
His antics in the senate were to make a point, but did not lead anyone to accomplish anything.
And deduction.
His campaign costs are totally tax free and tax subsidized.
Oh, you mean like defending our Constitutional rights for DECADES...?
I would call that leadership.
How about continuing to stand against what you promised you would stand against?
I would call that leadership.
Blowing in the wind whichever way your latest Twitter followers demand... that is NOT leadership.
In the general election Trump will self finance and get a lot of money from the RNC as all nominees do.
Just as the eGOP would have you do.
They need sycophantic competitors like Rubio or Busb to get the nomination so they can usher their girl Clinton into office.
Clinton or one of those mentioned, who do you prefer?
A lot of Cruz votes will go to Trump along with some of Rubios.
>>Oh, you mean like defending our Constitutional rights for DECADES...?
Decades? Those are 10 years each where I come from. He graduated from college in 1995! He held bureaucrat jobs until 2012 and his accomplishments in the Senate involve no leadership or “defending”. He talks for a living. That’s all.
Sorry, I’m always jumpy on a CW thread :-)
If he takes money in the general it should be mostly small donations and NEVER PAC money. The largest donations of $2,500 can be met with “You know this isn’t going to buy you anything, don’t you?” And list the names of every donor.
District of Columbia v. Heller
Van Orden v. Perry
Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry
Medellin v. Texas
He helped George Bush win the legal battle in Florida in the 2000 campaign (https://web.archive.org/web/20100521123956/http://www.morganlewis.com/bios/tcruz)
He has also sponsored over 25 bills in the Senate including:
S.177, a bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health-care related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, introduced January 29, 2013
S.505, a bill to prohibit the use of drones to kill citizens of the United States within the United States, introduced March 7, 2013
S.729 and S. 730, bills to investigate and prosecute felons and fugitives who illegally purchase firearms, and to prevent criminals from obtaining firearms through straw purchases and trafficking, introduced March 15, 2013
S.1336, a bill to permit States to require proof of citizenship for registering to vote in federal elections, introduced July 17, 2013
S.2170, a bill to increase coal, natural gas, and crude oil exports, to approve the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, to expand oil drilling offshore, onshore, in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, and in Indian reservations, to give states the sole power of regulating hydraulic fracturing, to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard, to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases, to require the EPA to assess how new regulations will affect employment, and to earmark natural resource revenue to paying off the federal government’s debt, introduced March 27, 2014
S.2415, a bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to eliminate all limits on direct campaign contributions to candidates for public office, introduced June 3, 2014
The man has done LEAGUES more than Donald Trump has ever done, who is truly someone who talks for a living. His only record that exists is one which flips every direction on every issue which matters to conservatives. Time and time again Trump has proven himself to be a liberal hack whom will do nothing but further damage this country. PLEASE wake up!
That is all.
>>PLEASE wake up!
Please stop assuming that people are asleep. I’m awake. How many of those bills passed and were signed into law with Cruz’ contributions intact?
Most politicians resumes are just a listing of “stuff I tried”. Does your resume read like that or do your employers expect a list of the stuff you actually accomplished?
And how much conservative fighting has Trump done? How long is THAT resume?
Its empty.
Hell, he never even tried...
Cruz has tried again and again and again.
He has WON cases for our side time and time again.
He is a PROVEN conservative leader whom has fought tirelessly for our causes over and over and over.
Trump? NONE. EMPTY RESUME. He is NOTHING but rhetoric, which conveniently swayed our direction when he decided he wanted to run for President. You seriously are not capable of seeing him for what he is?
>>You seriously are not capable of seeing him for what he is?
I do see him for what he is. But I am not the lockstep conservative that i was in 1988 or even in 2001. The situation on the ground has changed for the worse. We want to end welfare, yet the jobs that welfare recipients need are outsourced, automated, or given to foreigners. We hate socialized medicine, yet employers restructured their businesses to avoid having to provide insurance. Kids aren’t learning. The banks are raping us. The corporations dehumanize us. The government enslaves us.
Your vision of freedom is the freedom to run in the herd. You agree that all animals should be free to move about within the herd but any deviation from your orthodoxy is forbidden. The UniParty has a vision for the herd that is even more restrictive than that.
We have to break the back of the UniParty before we can regain any semblance of conservatism or even humanity in this country. Whatever Cruz may have accomplished, he has been in training to be a politician for his entire adult life. That makes me distrust him.
So your answer is to turn to a universal healthcare loving, government growing, land stealing, bleeding heart liberal (or at least historically has been one) who is enslaved to the banks?
The UniParty is the problem, agreed, but your presumed preposition is that Ted Cruz is a part of the UniParty...
You show me a single person within the establishment who supports Ted Cruz...
Now show me the laundry list of establishment characters who support the weasel who is Donald Trump...
You are ignoring the facts surrounding Trump, but you need to realize before it’s too late who he really is.
Yes, America needs a solid leader right now. You may not believe it is Ted Cruz, but he certainly is closer than Donald Trump has ever been.
Trump, is easily the most dangerous candidate we have had running on our side in a very long time. The republic needs a solid person of character and backbone, with a solid core based on the US Constitution.
With the lack of respect he has exhibited towards it, Trump has proven he does not understand it. Now imagine him making decisions in the critical zero hour... Without the basis of our governing document, he will flap aimlessly in the winds of public opinion/pressure.
>>The UniParty is the problem, agreed, but your presumed preposition is that Ted Cruz is a part of the UniParty...
Every politician is vulnerable to the lure of the UniParty. Those who aren’t natural leaders are attracted by the “go along to get along” way of doing business because it works for THEM. As politicians, they can only see a need to “do something” as the end of every process. They are unfamiliar with the notion of walking away from a bad deal and abandoning sunk costs. Americas biggest problem is with refunding bad ideas because of the sunk costs.
Since a lawyer/politician always get paid, win or lose, they are only qualified to continue the status quo of annually adding new sunk costs on top of old ones.
And a man who has ADMITTED to being a part of the problem, being a donor to pay to play into the UniParty, somehow is better than someone who has fought tirelessly for our beliefs and principles?
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