Trump Responds To Press Mockery Of “Terrible” Fundraising Report
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 21, 2016
The political press is abuzz today following a report that in a month in which Hillary Clinton raised $26.4 million for her fundraising campaign, leaving her with $42.5 million in cash on hand, Donald Trump managed to raise only $3.1 million, and only had $1.3 million in the bank thanks to another $2.2 million personal loans he made to his campaign. The fundraising report, posted late Monday night, received a mocking reception from political press and set off alarms among Republicans, who worry he’s not interested in raising money for himself or the national party and will get swamped by Hillary Clinton in the general election.
To be sure, the counterargument is whether and how aggressively Trump has been seeking outside funding to subsidize a campaign which has largely been self-funded to date, in keeping with Trump’s committment to keeping outside financial influence to a minimum.
And in typical fashion Trump has beaten back criticism over his “terrible” May fundraising report, by saying that he has “unlimited” cash on hand to fund his campaign because he can put up as much of his own money as he wants. And the punchline: “If need be, there could be unlimited ‘cash on hand’ as I would put up my own money, as I have already done through the primaries, spending over $50 million dollars,” Trump said in a statement. “Our campaign is leaner and more efficient, like our government should be.”
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