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

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).