Trump Could Still Use Campaign Donations to Pay Himself Back for $36M Loan After Saying He Wouldn't

[Major Nikon]

Source: NBC News

Donald Trump insists he personally funded his primary campaign, but a new report filed by his presidential campaign tells a different story.

Trump has now spent a total of $43 million, according to his filing with the Federal Election Commission made available Saturday, and all of it is still structured as a loan to the campaign. That means he can be legally reimbursed for his spending, with new campaign donations, until August.

When NBC News reported on that option last week, Trump responded by saying he had "absolutely no intention of paying myself back for the nearly $50 million I have loaned the campaign."

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-could-still-use-campaign-donations-pay-himself-back-36m-n578036

[forest444]

1. Trumpolini will pay himself back with donations meant for veterans if need be.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-veterans-donations/index.html

[oldandhappy]

2. He gave some money and said the rest was a loan. MSM never carried that part.

I posted it here over and over but people still think he is 'self funded'. ha! If he does not win it will be the first things he talks about -- the payback. Pretty sure he will go for it anyway. People believe what they want to believe.

[politicaljunkie41910]

11. I think he will pay himself back first once the first campaign donations start rolling in. After all

He may be stupid, but he ain't dumb. And since he knows his constituency, who are dumber than a doorknob to believe this con artist, they deserve to be duped. It couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of angry white folks who allowed Sen McConnell, in his efforts to make President Obama a one-term president, to succeed at their expense, in making sure that they and their children were also vicims of a less robust economy than this nation might have had otherwise, had he not sacrificed America's recovery at the alter of right-wing racial hatred of President Obama.

Had McConnell and the rest of the GOP tried to work together to help in an economic recovery which would have benefitted the nation as a whole, these angry white entitled bunch of folks and their children would have jobs and a more secure future today. Instead they went along with McConnell and his game of Craps and rolled snake eyes.

[oldandhappy]

12. yep

[Botany]

3. he is a con man .....

... end of story

[christx30]

4. In another time period he'd be selling snake oil

at a seedy traveling carnival. But in our time, he's running for the highest office in the land.

The future sucks.

[Major Nikon]

5. He's nothing more than a used car salesman with a trust fund

[whistler162]

9. No need to belittle

Used Car salesmen!

[Major Nikon]

10. True, they aren't as despised as lawyers

[hamsterjill]

13. Yes.

Paul Begala has dubbed him "Don the Con".

I like it.

[avebury]

6. And don't forget all that funding that the MSM has provide Trump

in the form of constant coverage to exclusion of all other candidates.

[OldHippieChick]

7. Something, somewhere, sometime

will come back to bite him on the butt. This was one of his biggest brags - that he was self-funded. Surely to goodness this has legs.

[rurallib]

8. Trump will probably sue himself claiming that the man that made that promise

was not fully competent when he made those promises.
Finding witnesses to corroborate that story should be easy.
The key witness will be a man named John Miller.

[Bad Dog]

14. If he wasn't contradicting statements he made earlier,

he wouldn't be Donald Trump. That's what he does.