Rumor has it that Trump's campaign is broke, but I suspect that it's a strategy.

[DetlefK]

It is being widely reported that the Trump-campaign has been scaling back on TV-ads. For example in Arizona, the Trump-campaign isn't running any ads at all.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/4/1975137/-The-Trump-campaign-is-broke

This could have two reasons:
1. They are broke.
2. They are hoarding their cash in order to spend it with one MASSIVE ad-campaign right before the election.



Here's why I think its No. 2: We have seen this campaign-strategy before.

In the 2008 republican primary, Rudy Giuliani used this strategy. You know, the Has-Been who desperately clings to Trump for political relevance. It's not unbelievable to think that Rudy Giuliani proposed this strategy to Trump.
"The biggest presidential ad-campaign ever! It could be yours! The ad-campaign to end all ad-campaigns!"



Btw, did it work for Giuliani in 2008?
No.
Holding off for so long cost him precious campaign-momentum and media-presence.
By the time his campaign-onslaught started, most primary-voters had already made up their mind. And not in his favor.







I think it would be super-funny if Rudy Giuliani's campaign-advice would ultimately cost Trump the 2020 election.

[madashelltoo]

1. Not broke!

Check the Mango Menace’s pockets.

[Rorey]

2. I'm looking forward to hearing him tell the MAGAts to skip meals

So they can send him what they save.

[Turbineguy]

4. Or they could

sell their organs.

[gratuitous]

22. "So, you'll make a $10,000 donation to Trump's campaign if I sell my heart?"

"It'll grow back, right?"

[SWBTATTReg]

3. The orange menace has been in front of American voters nonstop since he won, and he won't shut

up. Americans are sick and tired of seeing his fat a&& face on TV. Thus, ad buys are worthless (because he is way overdone, way over-exposed) AND he's ripping the money off to save his businesses and his a&&. Simple.

[smirkymonkey]

28. +1000

Also, his lies and charachter defamation aren't sticking anymore. Even his most hardcore supporters know he's a liar, they just don't care. And nobody else believes a word he says. He's like the boy who cried wolf. Nobody's buying his bullshit anymore.

[C_U_L8R]

5. I think the word is embezzled.

[ooky]

6. There's a third reason.

He knows he's going to lose and plans to keep the money he still has left for his slush fund.

[33taw]

8. Agree.

[Buckeyeblue]

17. That seems more likely. In his mind this is his money.

Plus he probably needs it. What he'll do is tease a 2024 run so that he can start Trump TV and use the campaign funds.

[Thekaspervote]

21. This!!

[2naSalit]

27. +1

[JustGene]

33. +1

Of course it's his, people gave it to him, right?

[uponit7771]

35. +1

[Laelth]

7. They claim to be broke to better fleece their donors.

Always playing the victim is Trump. All the better to part people from their money.

-Laelth

[Demsrule86]

9. Early voting is starting...he has pulled his ads from Ohio too ...we had them up quite a bit now

none. Joe is blanketing social media and TV...I think' it' is broke.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Hell, I've been getting tons of emails from Dems screaming all kinds of desperate claims...

I kind of ignore most of them. I give when and where I can.

But I do hear a lot of doom and gloom from various campaigns and candidates. I hang in there.

I figure Trump is selling shit again. It's what he does.

[Doug.Goodall]

11. Trump knows he is going to lose; he intends to keep the money for himself.

I believe left over campaign cash belongs to the candidate. Trump wants a nice big check as a going away present (or maybe to cover his legal bills).

[riversedge]

12. There was a story that Trump is using the donor cash for lots of legal fees--and while other

Presidents have done this--the huge amounts spent on lawyers in beyond the pale.

[duforsure]

13. More than likely he's been embezzling money out of it

Into his pockets because he's broke and can't pay his russian friends and putin . Bankruptcy in the near future? If he thinks his company will have everything frozen from criminal charges when he's ousted maybe he has devised a way to keep or shield it from being taken? He does have moles feeding him information within the DOJ.

[kentuck]

14. He's going to rip off Republican donors just before the election.

He will use it as his personal slush fund.

He doesn't need campaign funds. He gets all the free media he needs from the M$M.

Also, it is very probable that he is laundering Russian money thru the RNC.

[beachbumbob]

15. link to latest FEC filing for trump campaign thru August

I hate opinion and such that do not indicate ACTUAL numbers and kinda asked 2 or 3 times about it



https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00580100/1434701/

$120,550,919.51 cash on hand at end of the month doesn't look like a campaign broke

$322,981,456.80 how MUCH trump campaign has spent year to date to behind 10 points is a great investment right?

[keithbvadu2]

16. They have so much money they have been matching 700%.

They have so much money they have been matching 700%.

(As if that can be believed)

Now it is 800%, for one hour.

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/

They don't seem to say who is doing the matching.

[Silent3]

19. The 800% matching will be done by...

...the next eight people who donate, and the matching for those eight people will be done by the next 64 people who donate, etc.

It's a campaign donation Ponzi scheme!

[keithbvadu2]

25. Creative bookkeeping.

[Me.]

18. They May Be As They Have Been Stuck Paying THe Legal Fees For THe Entire Family

and other things such as changing convention location .

Giuliani didn't lose because of that strategy, he lost because no one wanted him. Just as when he tried for a 3rd term in NYC right after 9/11 and NYers said NO.

[themaguffin]

20. There is no "right before the election" - people will start voting in October

[Dave in VA]

24. Wife and I will be voting

in 12 days. Early voting and in person.

[Thekaspervote]

23. They said the same thing in 16

[NewJeffCT]

26. Trump has Super PACs and other places that can run ads, no?

instead of the campaign itself

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

29. "Broke" may be too rosy a description.

They may be deep in the hole, owing many, having not enough to pay their debts.

And, they may be in debt to "the wrong people": people who don't understand forgiveness of debts, even under a ruling of bankruptcy status. People who are knowledgeable about the terminal velocity of an object of fifth-floor defenestration. People knowledgeable about nerve agents in tea or in diet Coke. People knowledgeable about the administration of polonium.

[Loge23]

30. NYT reports $58.6 million spent on legal fees

An article in today's Times by Eric Lipton details some $58.6 million that has been spent by the GOP on the many, many lawsuits that the IPOTUS is continually involved in.
That's ongoing - and that's a lot of cash. Has to leave a mark, a red one, on the books eventually.
I have long wondered about this and Mr. Lipton's reporting shines a light on how the GOP uses campaign funding to pay for the mountains of legal bills the fraud incurs.
Besides the trump crime family's immediate members, the GOP has paid legal fees for Hope Hicks (the president's fantasy girl), the infamous Cory Lewandowski, former bodyguard/valet Keith Schiller, and noted professional liar and suck-up Boris Epshteyn.
This is what the GOP does now that it has surrendered all vestiges of it's legitimacy (if it ever had any) in blind support of a two-bit con, criminal, and wannabe dictator.

[live love laugh]

31. He lied about being broke and bankrupt when he was divorcing Marla Maples. nt

[JI7]

32. How about they are all grifters and everyone is trying to get as much as they can for themselves

[GoCubsGo]

34. Not sure how they can afford to run anti-Biden ads every other commercial break here

if they're broke. Granted, the production on the ads is so shoddy, they look like they likely didn't cost much to make.