[TheRealThing]

"Donald Trump has forgiven $50 million in loans he made to his campaign, and fundraising efforts have kicked into high gear, his national finance chairman told CNBC on Thursday.


"[Trump] loaned $50 million to the campaign. He's now forgiven that loan. So that is a contribution," said Steve Mnuchin. "[Trump] has also said he will contribute significantly more money."
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/23/trump-for...chief.html


Okay, time for the Trump haters to come back on here and admit they were wrong. Today's news demonstrates the ridiculous level of speculation by anti-Trump forces, not to mention highlighting the hypocrisy of the gossip mongers and their outrageous charges against the person of Mr Trump.

[Demarcus ware]

:haters:

[Granny Bear]

It doesn't matter what Trump does or does not do to the Dump Trump campaign. Those folks don't appear to want to hear the truth. Most aren't for Trump or Hillary or Sanders...they are just AGAINST every viable choice.

It's sad to see all the bitterness and negativity.

[RunItUpTheGut]

^
They'll never admit it, but they will hold there noses and vote for Trump in November.

[RunItUpTheGut]

bump.
this one needs more attention nicker:

[Hoot Gibson]

Ten percent of the Trump campaign's expenditures have been made to Trump's companies. Trump is Trump's best customer. That is bound to be helping his fundraising efforts. nicker:

Donald Trump's Campaign Has Spent Over $6 Million at Trump Companies

Keeping it in the family.

Donald Trump’s campaign likes to keep it in the family.

When Trump flies, he uses his airplane. When he campaigns, he often chooses his properties or his own Trump Tower in New York City, which serves as headquarters. His campaign even buys Trump bottled water and Trump wine.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has been on the campaign trail for a year now, and federal finance reports detail a campaign unafraid to co-mingle political and business endeavors in an unprecedented way — even as he is making appeals for donations.

Through the end of May, Trump’s campaign had plunged at least $6.2 million back into Trump corporate products and services, a review of Federal Election Commission filings shows. That’s about 10% of his total campaign expenditures.

[TheRealThing]

Ten percent of the Trump campaign's expenditures have been made to Trump's companies. Trump is Trump's best customer. That is bound to be helping his fundraising efforts. nicker:

I know contractors who have donated time and materials in various disaster relief situations. Using your particular form of anti-logic, we should be suspicious of people who donate of their own substance to help those suffering from loss because they did not hire an outside entity to perform the work and supply the necessary materials. Put another way, if one is top dog over a business conglomerate he tends to give orders to those in his service.

Of course, I realize we're comparing apples to oranges here. Some people actually get out and do things, others sit behind a keyboard imagining themselves to be some kind of judge.

[Hoot Gibson]

Trump is a lying scam artist. He is not self-financing his campaign and his inability to raise campaign donations is going to hit Republicans down ticket hard in November. At least Trump is consistent. He exaggerates his charitable donations just like he does everything else. All hat and no cattle.

DONALD TRUMP’S CHARITABLE GIVING CLAIMS SURE LOOK LIKE A SHAM

The real estate mogul has contributed hardly any of his fortune to his own foundation, which spends millions on society galas and institutions tied to friends and family.

Reality-challenged billionaire Donald Trump has long claimed to be a paragon of philanthropy, allegedly donating more than $100 million over the last half decade alone. “I give to hundreds of charities and people in need of help,” Trump told the Associated Press last year. “It is one of the things I most like doing and one the great reasons to have made a lot of money.” Those claims have been repeatedly cast into doubt, to put it mildly. Publicly available records for the Trump Foundation show that the real estate mogul has donated very little of his own money to his charity. Even more damning is the fact that few of those donations have gone to legitimate charitable causes, unless you count Trump’s own social interests and society galas as charities.

According to an unofficial audit by The Washington Post, which dug through the records of 167 charities to which Trump had pledged money since 2008, only one donation was actually on the books: a gift to the Police Athletic League of New York City, made in 2009, for somewhere between $5,000 and $9,999. The other millions that Trump said he would donate apparently never materialized.

Promising money and then not following through isn’t new for Trump. Between 1987 and 1991, the Post found that the Trump Foundation only ever gave $137,000 of the $1.9 million that was pledged to causes such as AIDS research, veterans, and homeless organizations—about 7 percent of what was promised. The remaining 93 percent went to groups that the Post characterized as “society galas, his high school, his college, a foundation for indigent real estate brokers.” A ballet school Ivanka Trump attended received $16,750, while Eric Trump's private high school received $40,000—“more than the homeless, AIDS and multiple sclerosis contributions combined.”

It’s unclear where all the money Trump has said he would donate actually goes. Earlier this month, Buzzfeed reported that the fees Trump received for consulting and public events did not appear to have been dispersed. In one instance in 1988, he charged boxer Mike Tyson $2 million to be an adviser for Tyson’s business ventures. “Anything I make from this position will go to charities fighting AIDS, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and helping the homeless,” he said at the time, promising to donate it to his foundation. That money never appeared in the Trump Foundation’s records.

The Trump campaign’s defense has long been that Trump doesn’t make the donations just through his foundation, but rather he makes them personally. This, it must be said, is a remarkably clever response. The only way to determine exactly how much the billionaire has donated himself is by analyzing his tax filings, which Trump has, coincidentally, refused to release. “He makes contributions personally and there’s no way for you to know or understand what those gifts are or when they are made,“ his campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, told Buzzfeed. “We appreciate your interest in his charitable giving, which is generous and frequent.”

[TheRealThing]

Bottom feeding again with the Washington Post and now Buzzfeed? I know, desperate times, desperate measures.