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Tue May 21, 2024, 01:55 PM May 21

Trump's reported fundraising total includes his campaign claim of $50m raised at Maralago

...there's no actual proof any of the pledges from the Maralago event in April (which supposedly makes up $50m of the total reported today); no proof they turned into actual donations.

...the actual numbers:

Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC 16h
April, cash on hand:
Biden $192m
Trump $49m


Biden’s campaign and affiliated committees still ended the month with $192 million in the bank, according to his aides — a war chest they described as the highest cash-on-hand figure for any Democratic candidate in history

Trump’s campaign aides have not released cash-on-hand totals for all the committees affiliated with his election effor
t, but his campaign report, filed Monday night, shows it ended April with $49.1 million remaining in the bank, only modestly better than the $45.1 million the campaign had in its war chest at the end of March.

Biden’s campaign ended April with $84.5 million remaining in its coffers, a significant advantage over Trump’s war chest.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/politics/biden-fundraising-april/index.html

...moreover, about that Maralago fundraiser in April:

House Democrat presses oil CEOs for details of Trump's fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee is investigating whether former President Donald Trump proposed a "quid pro quo" arrangement to oil executives at a dinner in April.

The House Oversight Committee's top Democrat asked oil executives to reveal whether former President Donald Trump had proposed a "quid-pro-quo" arrangement to them at a recent Florida fundraising dinner, according to letters released Tuesday by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md.

The letters arose from a Washington Post report that Trump hosted the executives for dinner Apr. 11 at his private club, Mar-a-Lago. "You all are wealthy enough," Trump reportedly told the assembled guests. "You should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House."

The former president then reportedly told the oil executives that if they helped him win another term as president, he would reverse the Biden administration's freeze on permits for liquefied natural gas exports, auction more oil drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico and roll back rules on auto emissions.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/house-democrat-presses-oil-ceos-for-details-of-trumps-fundraising-dinner-at-mar-a-lago/3437001/

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