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cilla4progress

(24,777 posts)
Sun Aug 14, 2016, 01:59 PM Aug 2016

Did you hear Jack Beatty on NPR'sOn Point?

He asked: what is Trump doing with his campaign donations? He's not running ads. He has no field offices. Apparently sometime maybe in the 90s Trump said he should run for office; that he could make a lot of money doing so.

Raises the specter... Would not be one but surprising.

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Did you hear Jack Beatty on NPR'sOn Point? (Original Post) cilla4progress Aug 2016 OP
I've been wondering. Johnny2X2X Aug 2016 #1
Myself, as well cilla4progress Aug 2016 #6
I've wondered, too, Mme. Defarge Aug 2016 #2
Would not surprise me in the slightest... Wounded Bear Aug 2016 #3
Best not to mention this while we're ahead! SticksnStones Aug 2016 #4
My psychic powers are kicking in. liberalmuse Aug 2016 #5
he is no longer the billionaire he claims. pansypoo53219 Aug 2016 #7

Johnny2X2X

(19,118 posts)
1. I've been wondering.
Sun Aug 14, 2016, 02:05 PM
Aug 2016

No ads and the longer he waits the higher the rate for ads. He is supposedly beginning to start a ground game in FL and will have 20 offices opened there soon.

Is he waiting for October for ad buys? You reserve them early to pay a fraction of the rate you get later.

He's relying on the RNC ground game, but they're going to be working for down ticket as much if not more than the top. I don't get it. Did his primary campaign have massive debts to pay off? Is he renting Trump properties for like 50 times the going rate to funnel the money back to himself?

When this is all over it would be shocking if there isn't an investigation into how he spent the money.

cilla4progress

(24,777 posts)
6. Myself, as well
Sun Aug 14, 2016, 02:42 PM
Aug 2016

What poetic justice it would be for Trump to rot in jail for ALL the unrepented sins of Wall St.!

Wounded Bear

(58,721 posts)
3. Would not surprise me in the slightest...
Sun Aug 14, 2016, 02:11 PM
Aug 2016

if it all turns out to be a big scam. Perhaps, if it all comes out, it might lead to a bit of oversight on all of the money in politics. It would be nice to see some change there.

We already know he books a lot of functions at his own resorts and casinos/hotels. He and most of his imm family are on the payroll, raking in god knows how much. He's doing the absolute minimum to make it look like he's 'running' for office, while continually undermining himself with his ridiculous twitter wars.

Not that hard to smell a rat in there somewhere.

SticksnStones

(2,108 posts)
4. Best not to mention this while we're ahead!
Sun Aug 14, 2016, 02:12 PM
Aug 2016

Last thing we'd want is for him to start opening field offices and buying ad time.

As you were Mr. Trump ~

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