Despite Repeated Claims, Trump Now Won't Commit To Spending $100M
Source: Talking Points Memo
For the past month, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that he will personally contribute more than $100 million to his own campaign by Election Day, but now Trump will not commit to reaching that goal.
"We'll see what's needed," Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier when discussing whether he's meet his pledge to spend $100 million of his own money in an interview set to air Friday evening.
Trump had been boasting that he would donate $100 million by the end of the election cycle. But according to FEC reports filed Thursday night, Trump only donated about $31,000 to his campaign in the first half of October, bringing his total contributions to a little over $56 million.
The most recent FEC filing covers through Oct. 19. So in the three weeks between then and the election, Trump will have to cough up somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 percent of the total he's given for the whole campaign to reach his $100 million vow. Again, roughly $44 million in about three weeks.
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VMA131Marine
(4,138 posts)Has he made a profit on this election?
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)too bad his donors don't know they're getting ripped off.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)don't want to keep financing a loser?
Botany
(70,489 posts)Boy that is news.
BTW Trump has all but checked out of the campaign and is just going through
the motions now.
We need to turn all of America blue! Take back the senate and take back the
house too.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)would a Boeing 757 stand for?
Saviolo
(3,280 posts)He's ensured a news cycle focused on him and the GOP and money woes and blah blah blah blah...
He sure knows how to get free advertising from the media. I'll bet it helps the GOP raise a few million from individual donations. Gross.