[Hoot Gibson]

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.

EXCERPT---
"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.

Have you ever heard of bundlers?

As I said before, even if Trump does not recoup the money he loaned his campaign, he still lied about self funding his campaign because he admits that he will no longer be self funded for the general campaign.

As for buying Trump, Trump said that if Adelson poured millions of dollars into Rubio's campaign, he would own him. Adelson has committed $100 million to Trump's campaign.

Don't bother explaining again that Trump's positions were set in stone during the primary campaigns, so he cannot be bought now. That explanation sounded idiotic the first time that you offered it, and that kind of twisted logic does not improve with repetition. :biglmao: