Trump and his campaign try to allay concerns about trailing Biden in television ads

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

President Trump spent last weekend complaining privately about Joe Biden’s dominance in television advertising, according to three people familiar with the comments, only to tweet upon his return to Washington from a campaign swing that the “fake news” was exaggerating the disparity.

The zigzagging messages reflected a desire by Trump and his campaign to move beyond growing Republican concern about his relatively scant advertising budget and doubts about whether he now has enough money in the bank to close the race in a strong position.

“We have much more money than we had at the same time in 2016,” Trump tweeted this week. “Also spending on other, and different, elements of the campaign.”

His advisers, meanwhile, have begun public and private efforts to fight back against the notion that the disparity between Trump’s and his Democratic challenger’s advertising spending showed any weakness for the president’s campaign, even as allies continue to frantically tell Trump advisers that they are being outspent on the air in key states. The campaign must report its cash on hand for the end of August by Sunday’s regulatory deadline.


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[Miguelito Loveless]

1. Dear Republicans:

What part of "he stole most of the money" are you failing to grasp?

[brooklynite]

2. You know, people keep posting it, and its not true.....

...because its not that easy. Setting aside events and rooms at his hotels (which are in the campaign costs but aren't that substantial), every penny of expenditure has to be reported to FEC. There's no evidence of shell corporations or other entities sucking up campaign spending.

Don't attribute to malfeasance that which can be explained by incompetence.

[Miguelito Loveless]

6. Awfully hard to prove anything without the paperwork

And we don't get too see that. Also, if Trump will lie to the IRS, he'll lie to the FEC. Trump sees money "given" to him, as HIS money, to do with as he pleases. When the dust clears, the bank accounts will have been emptied. Trump has a lot of Russian help moving cash around at this point.

[brooklynite]

7. Here you go...

https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?committee_id=C00580100&two_year_transaction_period=2020&data_type=processed

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Again, any one who will lie to the IRS

will lie to the FEC.

The paperwork we need to see are the books kept by the Trump campaign (all versions). Looking at the FEC paperwork just tells us what they told the FEC about what came in and where it went. We need to compare that to records not shown to the FEC.

The only thing that come close to Trump's predilection for lying is his penchant for fraud.

[soothsayer]

3. I saw some drumpf ads on TLC during My 600 lb Life

[brooklynite]

5. Play to your strengths...

[lagomorph777]

4. Spending on getaway yachts and tabulator hacks.

[brooklynite]

11. There's no evidence of hacked voting machines...

...not that it'll stop anyone believing in them.

[paleotn]

9. Simple really....

Big Republican donors might as well write the check to Donnie personally. That's where it's going to end up anyway. So they're being more than a little tight with the cash. Don't blame them. In some bizarre, evil Spock universe where I'm a big Republican donor, I'd want steel cables attached, not strings, before I give him one thin dime. Otherwise, he'll just blow the money on himself instead of his campaign, lose and then I'm out my donation with zero payoff in tax cuts and regulation roll backs. Donnie is a really bad investment this time around.

[BlueWavePsych]

10. Drumpf's campaign is burning up all its cash.