Seriously: what if the Trump campaign is just the short con?

[Recursion]

I'm kind of inclining towards this.

The short con here is:

Trump floats a large loan to his campaign.

The campaign uses that money to buy campaign services, so far 80% of which have gone to companies owned by Donald Trump.

Trump can then use campaign contributions to pay back that loan.

Trump then profits from his own loan, and gets it paid back in full.

[bigtree]

1. that's clearly what he's attempting

...what he's vulnerable to at this point is a disintegrating end game where support and funds dry up as his candidacy crumbles.

But he's clearly working to make a profit off of this and revive his tanking, shell-game empire.

[apcalc]

2. I believe so.

I also believe he is running for prez for financial reasons.

[Coyotl]

3. What if he is running side bets in the millions, gambling on himself and

purposefully tanking his campaign to get a better margin before he lays down some real money and pivots.
Maybe he took 20 to 1 odds that Clinton would beat him by 10% of the popular vote and bet against himself.

[MichiganVote]

4. That's exactly what he is doing. Take the money and run. Doesn't care who he hurts in the process.

[cilla4progress]

5. Clearly what he's up to.

I believe he stated as much several years ago! That he would use a presidential campaign to make money.

[Hoyt]

6. As crooked as he is, I suspect feds would be all over that scam.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Campaign files Bankruptcy on November 9,2016.

Bet on it.

[ancianita]

8. Aaaaahaha...