Donald Trump Won’t Self-Fund General-Election Campaign

http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-wont-self-fund-general-election-campaign-1462399502 ^

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Donald Trump won’t self-fund his general-election campaign, and will instead create a “world-class finance organization,” the presumptive Republican nominee said in an interview on Wednesday.

For a campaign expected to cost more than $1 billion, “I’ll be putting up money, but won’t be completely self-funding, as I did during the primaries,” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday. The New York businessman, who did receive some mostly small unsolicited donations, lent his campaign $36 million of the $47 million he spent through March.

That plan represents a shift for Mr. Trump, who has for months portrayed his Republican opponents as “puppets” for relying on super PACs and taking contributions from wealthy donors that he said came with strings attached.

Mr. Trump is planning to use his expansive personal Rolodex to ensure his campaign has the resources to compete against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in November, while the campaign will tap into a new base of Trump supporters who aren’t on party rolls, two Trump advisers said.

The presumptive Republican nominee, known for operating on a tight budget in a primary where he enjoyed more than $2 billion in free media attention, is also likely to implement a business plan that may be less costly than traditional political campaigns, a senior aide said.

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The RNC should be bled dry paying for Trump’s campaign. After what they’ve done to him for the past 10 months? I hope Trump bankrupts the sorry bastards.