Unclebaldrick
Well-Known Member
Donald Trump began officially raising funds for his re-election campaign on January 21st, 2016 - the day after he took power. And he has raised a shitload, having spent much more time and effort campaigning than he has doing his job.
Official disclosures show that he raised $1.1 billion since the beginning of 2019.
But the Trump campaign is now in a cash crunch allowing Joe Biden to outspend him with impunity in the final stretch.
Trump campaign blows through a billion dollars.
What happened? Newspaper stories detail how the Trump campaign spent lavishly and blew threw the money like a coked up sailor on their first shore leave in a year, but something (that would be Trump's history of running charitable institutions [which he is now banned from doing due to self-dealing]) tells me there will be much more to this story in the coming months. I suspect that hundreds of those millions quietly found their way into the Trump family's pockets through events at Trump properties and purchases of Trump books. Nixon had more than a million dollars in cash that could easily disappear into the pockets of hired criminals - is it too much to think that Trump, in his brazenness, outdid Tricky Dick in order to help pay down some of his hundreds of millions of personally guaranteed loans coming due in the next several years?
Hey @Bugeye, in the unlikely event that you actually contributed to his campaign, how would you feel if Trump had personally been pocketing this money? I mean, its one thing to use taxpayers' money to defend himself against rape allegations that could be settled with a simple mouth swab, to charge the taxpayers millions in hotel rentals and golf cart fees every time he goes on vacation to one of his properties (over 500 visits as of August - remember when he criticized Obama for an occasional golf game and annual family vacation to Hawaii and then said he would never take a vacation if elected?
), and lets not forget the millions of taxpayer dollars he has spent conducting "press conferences" that were nothing more than bald-faced campaign commercials!
This is pretty seriously criminal stuff, but the question is: do we just blow it off in the name of "letting the country heal" or are we obligated to see to it that this criminality is punished as a sign that it won't be tolerated in the future?
I am on the fence on this one - I just want to hear logical arguments from both sides.
Official disclosures show that he raised $1.1 billion since the beginning of 2019.
But the Trump campaign is now in a cash crunch allowing Joe Biden to outspend him with impunity in the final stretch.
Trump campaign blows through a billion dollars.
What happened? Newspaper stories detail how the Trump campaign spent lavishly and blew threw the money like a coked up sailor on their first shore leave in a year, but something (that would be Trump's history of running charitable institutions [which he is now banned from doing due to self-dealing]) tells me there will be much more to this story in the coming months. I suspect that hundreds of those millions quietly found their way into the Trump family's pockets through events at Trump properties and purchases of Trump books. Nixon had more than a million dollars in cash that could easily disappear into the pockets of hired criminals - is it too much to think that Trump, in his brazenness, outdid Tricky Dick in order to help pay down some of his hundreds of millions of personally guaranteed loans coming due in the next several years?
Hey @Bugeye, in the unlikely event that you actually contributed to his campaign, how would you feel if Trump had personally been pocketing this money? I mean, its one thing to use taxpayers' money to defend himself against rape allegations that could be settled with a simple mouth swab, to charge the taxpayers millions in hotel rentals and golf cart fees every time he goes on vacation to one of his properties (over 500 visits as of August - remember when he criticized Obama for an occasional golf game and annual family vacation to Hawaii and then said he would never take a vacation if elected?
), and lets not forget the millions of taxpayer dollars he has spent conducting "press conferences" that were nothing more than bald-faced campaign commercials!This is pretty seriously criminal stuff, but the question is: do we just blow it off in the name of "letting the country heal" or are we obligated to see to it that this criminality is punished as a sign that it won't be tolerated in the future?
I am on the fence on this one - I just want to hear logical arguments from both sides.
