Posted on 05/04/2016 4:37:59 PM PDT by 11th Commandment
Donald Trump won't self-fund his general-election campaign, and will instead create a "world-class finance organization," the presumptive Republican nominee said in an interview on Wednesday.
For a campaign expected to cost more than $1 billion, "I'll be putting up money, but won't be completely self-funding, as I did during the primaries," Mr. Trump said. The New York businessman, who did receive some mostly small unsolicited donations, lent his campaign $36 million of the $47 million he spent through March.
That plan represents a shift for Mr. Trump, who has for months portrayed his Republican opponents as "puppets" for relying on super PACs and taking contributions from wealthy donors that he said came with strings attached.
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Nothing new here. This was reported on before and expected.
So Trump lent himself money for the primary...
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So he can pay himself back for the general.
Is he taking Prince Rebus RNC money?
Trump shouldn’t use his own money for the general.
He will win and make Rinse pay for it!
Not all entirely old news... the idea he would get his rolodex out and solicit his millionaire buddies is new.
Pretty cool, huh? He finances an all-time low spending campaign-—something like 1/3 of what Cruz spent-—and the only money he owes is to himself.
I’m ready to start my monthly contributions to Mr. Trump’s campaign for the general.
It was his own money to lend to himself out of his investments rather than cash them out
and so how does that offend you?
Time for the rest of us to help him finish the job of taking down the Clintons
I wouldn’t spend a billion of my own money in a million years.
if i was worth 10 million, i would spend 1 million on a campaign.
i dont blame him.
Last night he said he would be raising money for the Party, but hadn’t decided about whether to self-fund his own campaign.
And apparently not for the primaries either when he pays himself back several millions....
I read he spent $.13 per vote in Ny
Sanders spent $9 per vote
He can’t say he is not beholden to anyone anymore.
Of course Trump shouldn’t have to pay for the general election. He won the primaries on his own nickel and he should be funded just as your boy Lyin’ Ted would expect.
Good one.
Because, he is not self funding as promise. We will end up putting less into the race than Romney....
How do they threaten or coerce him?
by saying they wont finance his next election?
> lent his campaign $36 million of the $47 million he spent
Hmmm, if he “lent”, then he’ll have the option of getting paid back. OPM prevails.
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