[Liberty Tree Surgeon]

Legal? Mostly. Smart business sense? Probably. Using donated funds to pay yourself for campaign services? Not exactly a man looking out for the little guy.

And keep in mind Donald Trump loaned the money to the campaign. Donations from other will be used to retire that debt, and Trump then keeps the profit. In effect, he has done a leveraged buyout on his campaign with handsome returns expected.

[gorush]

[Utmost Certainty]

Good for Trump. He won’t be fiscally beholden to anyone but himself.

[Gaffer]

Legal? Mostly. Smart business sense? Probably. Using donated funds to pay yourself for campaign services? Not exactly a man looking out for the little guy

Threads this morning about Hillary Clinton doing the exact same thing (for $250K in on billing). They ALL do it. That's the dirty little secret.

[harwood]

Gee, I wish there were more Anti-Trump articles on FR

[SubMareener]

The FEC regulations require this kind of accounting nonsense. At least Donald Trump is not paying himself a salary as is Hillary.

[xzins]

Actually, I’m betting that Trump intentionally plows almost every dollar back into the company.

He can live more than well on business expense accounts and his wife’s income and his residuals from Apprentice.

Why not plow it into the business with all those tax protections?

And any money he receives, I’m betting are expense reimbursements.

[Dr. Sivana]

Using donated funds to pay yourself for campaign services? Not exactly a man looking out for the little guy.

Same pants, different pockets. Trump is mostly self-funding. Anyone who donates to his campaign doesn't really care which pocket the money goes into, they just want a stake in a campaign that they admire.

I don't think people who support Trump do so because he is the second coming of St. Francis of Asissi. They want to disrupt an abusive power structure, and they see Trump as detached enough from the other side of the political process to make it happen.

[Diogenesis]

[jneesy]

every candidate has done this since the dawn of time......another i could care less

[DannyTN]

All candidates do that.

[Captain Peter Blood]

So Trump is basically leasing his planes to himself. There is no profit back to Trump on any of this. Those planes are expensive to run and maintain. As for the rest of it, well he does live at Trump Towers so why not eat at the restaurants there. He probably has his small campaign staff, security and secret service eat there also.

I can’t get too excited and up set by any of this. So he is using his own money to rent his own offices and airplanes.

[UCANSEE2]

Is he paying himself more or less than Cruz is paying himself from his campaign funds ?

[GizzyGirl]

That’s called self funding I think????

[Jim W N]

What’s the point? Something wrong with recycling your own money?

[HarleyLady27]

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!!!

[TBP]

Typical of Establishment elitists.

[combat_boots]

Senators used to resign to run for the Presidency.

[Georgia Girl 2]

If he can do that for the United States think how happy you will be. :-)

[Lagmeister]

Are you a moron. He uses his own aircraft and loans to campaigns are how it is always done. This is nickels and dimes. Anything to hit the man. Thank God we have someone that hits back. You go ahead and champion, lying and race-baiting Cruz. There’s a champion for you....

[Jane Long]

Nothing burger.

That’s all you serve :(