By Colin Taylor
Posted on June 21, 2016
As the primaries end and candidates transition into general election mode, the discrepancies between the Clinton and Trump camps couldn’t be clearer – and conservative fears about both Trump’s chances at winning and his determination to do so are only getting worse. A report from the New York Times last night showed that Trump has a meager war chest of $1.3 million on hand, in comparison to Hillary Clinton’s $42 million – and we may have discovered where all that money is going.
He plays off his lack of obvious spending on usual expenses like attack ads, campaign materials, and on-the-ground staff by telling his supporters he’s being very frugal – but analysis of his Federal Elections Commission report by Rebecca Ballhaus of the Wall Street Journal shows that he is funneling donation cash to his own personal businesses and using his war chest as a personal piggybank. Trump has been spending boatloads of campaign cash to fly himself and his kids around the country, and uses more to fund his own business ventures.
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