I don’t have an answer to Trump’s situation with the vets.
As for this money problem with the delegates, the delegates should have known the costs going into the delegate selection process. I have had several opportunities to become a delegate to the GOP Convention. I did not enter the selection process because I did not want to pay the costs. I am waiting for a convention closer to home where I don’t have to pay the high airfare costs and can drive my car to the event. I also have my time share for my lodging which will include a fully equipped kitchen.
I’m with you on the exorbitant costs involved with playing in that game.
Even though most of us never knew much of them, there obviously has been a diehard bunch in this process from when “parties” got started.
It is a “club” so to speak that although is not totally exclusive, it does requitre anyone wanting to successfully participate better be prepared to start at the absolute ground level otherwise find themselves in the predicaments the “newby” delegates are in.
Trump did not do well in putting too many eggs in Corey’s basket, who more or less produced these unprepared delegates. Donald simply hired a guy that must have really impressed him, but who did not have the gravitas to run a real national organization. In my experience, in and out of sales, a successful sales person is the easiest to sell a bill of goods to, because they think they are too smart to get snookered.