Deadbeat Donald?
If The Donald is really the successful self-made rich guy he purports to be, why is his campaign running out of money?
According to , Donald Trump鈥檚 campaign cash-register is well nigh empty. That鈥檚 what Trump’s senior advisor, Paul Manafort, said in a meeting with a group of Senate Republican chiefs of staff for lunch last week.
For months now, The Donald has been touting 鈥渢he facts鈥 that he is: A) a super-successful businessman richer than Croesus and B) therefore beholden to no special interests (save his own) because he鈥檚 paying for his own run for the White House, the ultimate 鈥渙utsider.鈥
And according to the Associated Press this last Tuesday, Trump averred that as gesture of Olympian kindness, he was willing to let the party help him financially: “The RNC really wanted to do it, and I want to show good spirit, because I聽was very happy to continue to go along the way I was.”
A lot of folks who support Trump for president are quoted as saying that his great success in business is an indication of his abilities to 鈥渕ake America great again,鈥 echoing what Trump repeats about himself ad nauseam.聽 However, at the same time, Trump refuses to release his latest tax reports, saying variously that A) he is under audit and B) it鈥檚 鈥渘obody鈥檚 business鈥 anyway. What could they tell us?
A year ago this August, Fortune Magazine reported that if Mr. Trump had simply taken the paltry $40 million he inherited from his father and invested it in an S & P index fund, he would have been four times richer than he claims to be today.
But even if being a 鈥渟elf-made鈥 rich man were arguably a prime qualification for becoming President of the United States, is he really that 鈥渞ich鈥 or actually self-made?
Donald Trump鈥檚 in the ongoing court trial against him for fraudulent practices at Trump University requiring him to publicly reveal the records of the operation was to say: 鈥淓verybody says it, but I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He鈥檚 a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel. He is not doing the right thing.鈥
Then the Republican candidate for President pointed out that the judge was 鈥渁 Mexican.鈥
Something here doesn鈥檛 compute, folks.
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