"Self-funding" Trump pulled in over $30 million from "big-money donors" in Q3

[Miles Archer]

Trump did make some inroads with big-money donors in September, after months drawing ire or indifference from the party's top benefactors. Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, after sitting out most of the cycle, gave $10 million in September to Future45, a pro-Trump super PAC led by mega-donor Todd Ricketts. The group raised another $2.3 million from Todd Ricketts' billionaire father, TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, and energy executives Joe Craft and Jay Bergman.

Rebuilding America Now, another pro-Trump super PAC, raised almost $18 million in the third quarter, including $6 million from Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive and failed Senate candidate; $2 million from Mountaire CEO Ronald Cameron; $5 million from Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus; and $1 million from Pennsylvania investor Walter W. Buckley Jr.

Other Trump super PACs have struggled to catch on. The Committee to Restore America's Greatness, associated with longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone, raised less than $85,000 in the quarter.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-cash-bypasses-campaign-229849

[Princess Turandot]

1. Most of the $$ that Trump put into his campaign is still recorded as a loan...

as of 8/31, according to the FEC's website. (They haven't updated it for 9/16 yet.) $47,508,505.39, to be precise. My guess is that he intends to pay himself back as much as possible right after Election Day. (They do show him actually contributing $6,532,081.39.)

When you consider the payments that he has made to his own companies, he may come out ahead from this escapade!

https://beta.fec.gov/data/committee/C00580100/?cycle=2016&tab=summary (You'll need to expand the donation summary by clicking on the plus sign.)

[msongs]

2. wanna bet most of that will funnelled right back to donny boy's accounts somehow? nt