Posted on 03/04/2016 7:05:16 AM PST by Liberty Tree Surgeon
The boss won’t let loose the kitties as long as Cruz is still in the race.
You guys are blind. Check the Breaking News and Front Page News bars on the right hand side - over the last few weeks, they’ve been 80% pro-Trump/anti-Cruz.
Until yesterday, when more anti-Romney items popped up. Upon which, in the spirit of mutual disgust, I think both Trump and Cruz supporters can agree.
That’s called self funding I think????
What’s the point? Something wrong with recycling your own money?
Thus proving that Trump is just another politician out to make a buck. Please prepare for cognitive dissonance to erase this from your memory in 3...2...1.
Just ask any of the people in Atlantic City who worked for him and when his operation went belly up they lost their pensions.
Just like Enron.
To my understanding, Trump has stepped away from his businesses to run for President. If he then bills all his campaign time to the businesses he stepped away from, I believe that would be considered fraud.
Trump appears to have put all of his businesses into some form of “blind trust” situation where his family and business associates run the businesses while he runs for President. Because he is not involved in the day-to-day operations of non-campaign business, drawing reimbursement and/or salary from the campaign is the legal and ethical thing to do.
Finally, if campaign expenses are redirected to businesses, that would appear to be a violation of campaign finance laws - undocumented and illegal contributions from said businesses.
you are missing the main point, He is spending money that will be repaid to him. That is not self funding. It points to the misleading narrative that he is so independent of donor money. He can even make a profit when the campaign pays back the loan with interest. It’s all perfectly legal, and others have and will do it, so that is not the issue. It just shows this “self funded” campaign for what it really is, a scam.
How much salary is Cruz paid by the campaign, and how much is Hillary paid? Show us those numbers so we can compare and maybe understand your frothy outrage.
He's not just recycling his own money. The donations he has received are also being put into his personal pocket. He's profiting off of the campaign.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3405019/posts
Hillary Clinton pays herself, but that’s ok, and yet she has super packs, special interest groups, George Soros and others?
But I forgot, she’s Hillary and she can do no wrong, but let Trump run and fund his own campaign and that’s the end of the world...I get it now!!!
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Exactly - you can't just spend your own money directly running for president.
He hasn’t done so yet. I heard the interview. He will do so when he assumes the presidency.
A quick search shows the group cited in this article, the Campaign Legal Center, has strong ties to John McCain.
Is Hillary Clinton your ethical standard? So if Trump is just a little more ethical than Hillary it's perfectly OK?
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It is the only way to pay for a campaign. You can't just spend your own money on a campaign directly.
Typical of Establishment elitists.
Senators used to resign to run for the Presidency.
Horrors.
Pay no attention to facts, impugn the source, and hope the problem goes away.
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