7 details from a new report expose financial turmoil -- and bitter backstabbing -- inside Trump camp

[Nevilledog]

7 details from a new report expose financial turmoil — and bitter backstabbing — inside the Trump campaign

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/7-details-from-a-new-report-expose-financial-turmoil-and-bitter-backstabbing-inside-the-trump-campaign/

President Donald Trump’s campaign is having money trouble, according to a New York Times report, while former Vice President Joe Biden’s team is flush with cash.

Biden announced a record-breaking sum of nearly $365 million in fundraising for the month of August, swiftly outpacing the president’s best month. And the report Monday from the Times exposed just how deep and sordid the story behind the Trump campaign’s depleted coffers and revealed signs of animosity brewing with its ranks.

Here are seven key details from the report:


1. The big takeaway: Trump has poured $800 million down the drain with little to show for it.

“If you spend $800 million and you’re 10 points behind, I think you’ve got to answer the question ‘What was the game plan?’” said Ed Rollins, a veteran Republican strategist who runs a small pro-Trump super PAC, and who accused [former Trump campaign manager Brad] Parscale of spending “like a drunken sailor.”

Of course, one of the biggest problems is that Trump has always been an unpopular president never interested in appealing to a broad majority of the country rather than his narrow base. You can’t spend your way out of that problem.

*snip*

[Thekaspervote]

1. K&R!!

[WheelWalker]

2. Don't forget the "R"

[Blue Owl]

3. Now he's bankrupting his own campaign -- lucky number 7!

[Le Roi de Pot]

4. Please check the other end of the Drain ..

Does it flow into Trump or Ivanka's coffers?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Exactly. Most of that war chest was never intended for actual campaigning.

[smirkymonkey]

5. Nevilledog, you are so on top of it all!

Thanks for all of your great posts!

[Nevilledog]

6. YW

I just have a great Twitter feed and mad Copy & Paste skills.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. We must NEVER underestimate

Copy & Paste skills.

[Nevilledog]

9. I try to practice every day.

[SheltieLover]

10. You do a great job of it!

Ty!!!

[Nevilledog]

12. U2!

[SheltieLover]

11. Parscale enjoying view from under the bus?

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. He's fine.

He probably owns the bus, along with his private jet, yacht and stable of expensive sports cars.

which partly explains the budget problem.

The OTHER explanation is the campaign ( maybe/maybe not Parscale) spent $$400 million on buying names lists.
Or at least that was they claimed to spend it on.

[herding cats]

13. Before I read the NYT's reporting on this today, I'd heard whispers and rumors.

It all started with THP alluding to this being the case pre their Parscale ad. Then there was a tweet here and there, and suggestions of the possibility in an article here and there due to various ad buys being culled, etc.

I donated to Biden again tonight after reading the article. I have truly believed the fools would at least hold their financial advantage, considering they literally started fundraising in 2017. Nope, there were just too many grifters, cons and megalomaniacs to appease for that to be possible.

Truly though, this made me laugh when I first read it!

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Too many sixes. . .

5. A lot of money is covering campaign-adjacent legal bills

Republicans, for instance, have been saddled with extra legal costs, more than $21 million since 2019, resulting from the many investigations into Mr. Trump and, eventually, his impeachment trial. The R.N.C. also paid a large legal bill of $666,667.66 to Reuters News & Media at the end of June. Both Reuters and the R.N.C. declined to discuss the payment. It was labeled “legal proceedings — IP resolution,” suggesting it was related to a potential litigation over intellectual property.

Number 7...mysteriously disappearing cash...

Thanks for sharing this, Nevilledog.

❤ lmsp

[malaise]

16. What do you expect from this kakistocracy

This is a gathering of thieves and con men (and women)