Earlier tonight, Ari Melber said, with a straight face, that Trump self-financed his campaign & won.

[Miles Archer]

He referred to Trump as a "billionaire who self-financed his 2016 campaign, and won."

Every Position Donald Trump Has Taken On How He Is Funding His Campaign
July 14, 20166:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/485699964/every-position-donald-trump-has-taken-on-how-he-is-funding-his-campaign

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. For an apparently smart guy, Melber sure says some dumb things.

[Jacoby365]

2. Did he really forget that the NRA funnelled

Tens of millions of dollars of Russian money to the Trump campaign?

[Miles Archer]

8. He made that one statement, and that was it.

I had the sound down and was working on my laptop and believe he said "billionaire," not "millionaire," but the rest of it is a quote, and the sum total of what he said on the subject.

[Brother Buzz]

3. Riddle me this: Why does he use his campaign war chest as a private ATM machine....

to pay for his mounting legal expenses?

He doesn't pay for anything. Hell, all the tailors he stiffed will tell you his pockets are sewn shut.

[Takket]

4. hahahaha come on dude, drumpf can't even self finance his own life!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rockfordfile]

5. Who told him to say that? I mean everybody knows that's not true

[Karadeniz]

6. If we email him, he'll correct himself. MSNBC people are easy to email.

[Miles Archer]

11. Good suggestion, and I just took you up on it.

I was courteous and simply said that his statement can't be taken at face value, that there is too much ambiguity surrounding what...if anything...Trump actually kicked in on his own, but I've never seen evidence that he fully self-financed his campaign.

I also sent him the link to the NPR article.

If I get a reply, I'll share it here.

[LenaBaby61]

7. Ari who?

[wishstar]

9. I read he was reimbursed completely by RNC and Trump Campaign donations

He only loaned money that he was paid back in full

[moondust]

10. Prepare for the MSM onslaught.

For Bloomy.

OfO: Oligarchs for Oligarchs!

Many are already screaming "SOCIALIST!!!!" trying to scare dumb voters away from anyone who would form a government that actually serves people in the middle and at the bottom rather than the OfO who are the very last people on Earth to need any help from government. Is Chris Matthews desperate to become a billionaire or something?

[Hekate]

12. DUers really should be filling his inbox with informative messages

Come on guys, you know you have to do this as a public service!

Ari

[Miles Archer]

13. See above...I just did.

I couldn't let this one skate by.

[maxrandb]

14. This is so effed up. Especially since it was MSNBC that "funded" the prick

Hey Ari! How much were the hours upon hours of empty podiums broadcasts worth to Donnie Shit for Brains.

Hillary couldn't get a fucking second of airtime. You and the other fuckstick "journalist" were too busy waiting to show us all the next fart the orange asspickle blew in our direction.

Go fuck yourself Ari. In a just world, you and the rest of the MSM orange testicle polishers would spend the rest of your lives writing obituaries for some two-page rag in Dumbfuckistan Murika.

[dalton99a]

15. Trump used $66 million of his own money and raised over $333 million from donors, the GOP, and PACs

Make no mistake: Trump did use $66.1 million of his personal fortune to fuel that 2016 presidential campaign. Few political candidates have such means.

But the self-funding represents less than one-fifth of the more than $333 million his campaign raised from all sources, including individual donors, party committees and political action committees.

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/actions-not-words-tell-trumps-political-money-story/

[Miles Archer]

16. My point exactly...

If he'd said Trump "self financed a portion of his campaign," it would have been an accurate statement.

And, he didn't so I did email him.