Trump has spent millions more than he's raised in 2023

[brooklynite]

Politico

Donald Trump’s joint fundraising committee reported raising $53.8 million in the first half of the year, a long-teased figure that blows all of his Republican opponents out of the water.

But the committee and its two affiliates — the former president’s official campaign and his leadership Save America PAC — have collectively spent $57 million over the same period, according to a POLITICO analysis of campaign finance filings. The spending rate threatens to put a significant strain on Trump’s finances as the election gears up.

All told, the joint fundraising committee spent more than $17 million over the first six months of 2023 on fundraising expenses such as digital consulting, direct mail, email and list rentals.

The Save America leadership PAC, which also filed its own biannual report on Monday, reported spending more than $24.4 million in the first six months of the year, excluding transfers to related committees.

[Aristus]

1. Spending more than he has. That is definitely on-brand for him.

n/t

[underpants]

2. He's counting on free media coverage

and if he jumps out for some reason he is taking everything out now.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Yeah, it is all part of his genius business plan.

[gab13by13]

3. Some of it caused because the price of the ruble fell.

[Blue Owl]

4. What a joke -- the frontman for the so-called 'Conservative' party

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Has the spigot of free money stopped? About time. Now, finally, tRUMP has to actually do

something for a living. He'll fall like a rock thrown from the Empire State Building and crash and burn.