Posted on 05/29/2016 3:08:01 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Donald Trump's campaign has alerted Senate Republicans that he won't have much money to spend fending off attacks from Hillary Clinton over the next couple months.
The notice came when Paul Manafort, Trump's senior advisor, met with a group of Senate Republican chiefs of staff for lunch last week, sources familiar with the meeting told the Washington Examiner. The admission suggests that Trump will be far more dependent on the GOP brass for money than he has led voters to believe, but it's consistent with his reliance on the Republican National Committee to provide a ground game in battleground states.
"They know that they're not going to have enough money to be on TV in June and probably most of July, until they actually accept the nomination and get RNC funds, so they plan to just use earned media to compete on the airwaves," one GOP source familiar with Manafort's comments told the Examiner.
That's a far cry from Trump's public insistence that he signed a fundraising agreement with the RNC in order to help the party, not himself. "The RNC really wanted to do it, and I want to show good spirit," he said last week. "'Cause I was very happy to continue to go along the way I was."
Still, Trump allies have suggested that the RNC is going to take advantage of the real estate mogul. "I don't think the RNC is 100 percent committed," a GOP donor told CNN. "If Donald Trump's seven points down in October, they're going to put that money toward Senate races and House races."
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Some things never change.
I know as much as you do about his privately held Corporation.
I do know, he's not going to put up his buildings as collateral for a half billion loan...that's what you have to do when you borrow 500 million dollars...
Let's pretend for a second he actually does that and wins the general election...
He's going to let himself be on the hook for 500 million dollars ?
Trump didn't become a billionaire by doing stupid things like that...
I will have to check that out. Diamond and Silk are amazing young ladies!
Some things never change.
Guess what? ...KMA and piss off you pompous jerk...
You want go for it with me...?
Bring it on...
Or you you stop being an ass this fine Sunday morning...
I think he is false flagging to lull the ‘Rats into a false sense of confidence. In August he will send in the B-52’s and lay waste to Hillary’s campaign
I wonder about that...
I'm sure he would get a lot of small donations...
One of the things that makes me think it would not be a successful as some people think, is Trump has always said he would self fund without really getting into details that it was just for the primaries...
I think, I may be wrong, but lots of people will ask themselves, "why should I donate to a billionaire"...?
I think he is false flagging to lull the ‘Rats into a false sense of confidence. In August he will send in the B-52’s and lay waste to Hillary’s campaign.
You might want to pay a bit more attention...
Oh, piff. You are working the straw man to death.
No financially astute person keeps a billion dollars in cash sitting around.
Trump is one of a few people in the world who could make a few phone calls and raise that amount. Signature loan.
I don't know that he should, and I'm not suggesting he do so...but to suggest he cannot is foolish.
DJT has been doing this his entire life. It’s called getting and using OPM - other people’s money. Why should he use his own when he can cajole through various means all the old farts at the RNC to give him some walking around money. He will eventually have a number of sources of capital. His campaign will not fail for lack of cash - other things maybe, but he knows how to get financing.
Gogeo is right.
There's even a name for those people.
Liberals.
We can agree to disagree...
Signature loan on a half a billion to invest into a political campaign...?
It's not like he is borrowing the money to build or buy an hard asset..
I don't think so...
True....just ask Ted.
“I keep reading how he was going to destroy the GOPe when all along he would eventually have to work with the very people some many here were thinking He would kill off....”
Trump has done more to expose worthless politicians than any other candidate in memory. Do you think Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham and John McCain are going to get re-elected on their next round if they continue to go against Trump’s stated agenda?
I have my birthday money set aside for Trump on June 14th, I hope this B-day money is a YUGE surprise for him!!! Take that RATS we WILL get our guy over the finish line!!!!
Trump never has said he’d self-fund the General Election portion of his campaign. He said he would self-fund the primary, but would have to accept donations for the General. Some people have short recall, or haven’t paid attention.
Yet despite how crappy trump is to you, he beat your guy easily. Go figure.
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