[TheRealThing]

I have never denied calling Trump dishonest. He is a pathological liar. That is not an insult, it is a fact. He claimed to be self funded for months and his FEC filings showed the entire time that he was not self funded. His dishonest supporters just do not want to admit the truth about him. Anybody who still claims that Trump told the truth about running a self funded campaign is also a liar. This is not complicated and you don't need a golf score card to keep up. Just look at Trump's FEC filings and say, "Trump lied." If you can't do that, then you are not even being honest to yourself.

Every other candidate had their platform established as well. Even Hillary has a platform listed with 31 issues on her website yet she is receiving large amounts of corporate funding.

I think we are going different directions on the donations, I will give a more succinct explanation in the first of the two paragraphs below.
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The big thing I am after, I believe that Donald Trump did not tell the truth when he said that he was self-financing his campaign. [/SIZE]In fact, I thought he would be self-financing his campaign the entire way. I wouldn't have faulted him at all for receiving donations from businesses as long as he stood up for what he believed in. I see no reason he would have given himself a loan unless it were to be paid back through corporate donors. The only difference between him and the other candidates is that he will be receiving his campaign donations at a later time than the others.

I just don't trust Donald Trump, in fact I see him more prone to cave to lobbyists than other candidates. Candidates such as Marco Rubio that received funding from big business have not caved on issues such as abortion and protecting marriage despite being under pressure from businesses to do so. One of the reasons Donald Trump said he was against HB2 in North Carolina was because of the supposed impact it was having on them economically. Thus, if it comes down to a moral decision where he is under pressure from the corporate world, I just don't see him having the same willingness of Matt Bevin of Kentucky, Phil Bryant of Mississippi, or Greg Abbott of Texas to fight against them to stand for moral decency.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says he has spent $30 million so far running for president, and his campaign manager says he's never getting that money back.

As Trump brags about "self-funding" his surging Republican bid, he has been lending — rather than giving — money to his campaign. That has raised the question of whether his self-funding pledge has strings attached. Would he ever raise donor money to pay himself back?

Not a chance, says campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

"He is not going to repay himself," Lewandowski said in an interview this week with The Associated Press.

Trump, it turns out, is following the standard practice of wealthy candidates who use their own money for presidential campaigns, a review of Federal Election Commission records shows.

Just like Trump in 2016, Jon Huntsman in 2012, Mitt Romney in 2008 and Steve Forbes in 1996 each made multimillion-dollar loans to their presidential campaigns, which they never repaid.
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/arti...nager-says



In a more recent article according to NPR reporter Peter Overby, Trump had 11 weeks in which to repay himself if that is his aim. The article was published May 4th which means we're down at this point to 7 weeks.

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"And here's where it gets complicated for the apparent nominee. Fundraising to repay candidate loans is regulated in two ways.

"If he wants that money back, he needs to raise it in $2,700 chunks before the convention, and make that repayment from his campaign committee to his personal bank account," said campaign finance lawyer Paul S. Ryan, at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center.

The $2,700 limit applies to all contributions to federal candidates. The deadline was imposed by Congress in 2002, to prevent situations where lobbyists' money was going directly into the personal accounts of newly elected lawmakers."
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/04/476783557/...38-million

So, it would seem that even if one owned the whole planet, according to law he could only make a single 2,700 dollar donation. Now tell us all about how somebody is going to buy Trump.