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https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-shatters-gop-records-with-small-donors-228338 https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-shatters-gop-re... http

by PKop 9y ago

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-shatters-gop-records-with-small-donors-228338 https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-shatters-gop-re... http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/13/kayleigh-mcenany/trump-raised-more-dollars-small-donations/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/... "Trump received about $239 million from donors who gave less than $200 in total. That amounts to 69 percent of the Trump campaign’s individual contributions; Hillary Clinton received about $137 million from $200-or-under donors. That made up 22 percent of the campaign’s individual contributions;" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/12/08/donald-trumps-campaign-investment-hit-66-million/95178392/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016... "President-elect Donald Trump didn't need $100 million of his money to win the White House in the end. Trump contributed another $10 million to his presidential campaign in the closing days of the election, bringing his total investment in the race to $66.1 million, new filings confirm."

ogre_magi 9y ago
Excellent and informative sources, thanks.
civilitty 9y ago
According to [1], Donald Trump did not make a single contribution to his own campaign except in the form of loans (based on my limited understanding of how the FEC reports this stuff, cross referenced against a candidates' filings who I know for certain loaned their own money to their campaign). Given that his campaign machinery started fundraising for 2020 the day after his inauguration, I feel that it is highly disingenuous to claim that those loans were in any way true political contributions. [1] https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/index.html?prefix=bulk-downloads/2016/ https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/index.html?prefix=b... (I wasn't able to load indiv16.zip and analyze it but the total loan amount from the other data is a only few million shy of the $66 million total).

by PKop 9y ago

ogre_magi 9y ago

Excellent and informative sources, thanks.

civilitty 9y ago

According to [1], Donald Trump did not make a single contribution to his own campaign except in the form of loans (based on my limited understanding of how the FEC reports this stuff, cross referenced against a candidates' filings who I know for certain loaned their own money to their campaign). Given that his campaign machinery started fundraising for 2020 the day after his inauguration, I feel that it is highly disingenuous to claim that those loans were in any way true political contributions. [1] https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/index.html?prefix=bulk-downloads/2016/ https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/index.html?prefix=b... (I wasn't able to load indiv16.zip and analyze it but the total loan amount from the other data is a only few million shy of the $66 million total).