Time to get on the TRUMP train

[ToasterOven]

1. Loan your campaign money
2. Spend your campaign money on your own products and properties
3. Pay yourself back from your campaign
4. Profit

I'm not Trump defender, but I don't think that's what he was doing. Look at the amounts involved. That might seem like big money to you and I, but not to someone like Donald Trump.

I believe that these expenditures were simply the campaign using Trump's own products/services for their needs, probably because they knew them best and of course knew they would get the top service. I agree it's a conflict of interest and doesn't look good, but I don't think it's Trump's way of embezzling from his campaign. I mean... that ledger even shows a $94 payment. Do you think Trump is embezzling $94 from his campaign?

I don't know. The guy makes a big show of giving presents of jewelry that are fake. He had a presidential press conference where he talked about his products, some of which didn't even exist anymore. I don't think he got into the campaign to make a buck, but do I think he's using every chance to spend campaign money on his own stuff? Absolutely. He might not get the donations required to pay himself back.

[thesidedish]

Mark Cuban is really starting to annoy me with his "I'm an expert on all things" persona he's going with these days. Everything he says about the election is very vague too, hes just trying to hitch a ride on the "its a good idea for a billionaire politician" coat tails of Trump.

The Mavs have been a massive GM fail every year since they won the championship, hes getting his fuckin ass kicked there. U can't be world class at multiple things moron when ur competing with the best, STFU

[thesidedish]

EDIT: WRONG THREAD

But heres some content...

Liberals are terrible people who use their fake morality as a way to cover up their corrupt hearts.

[ToasterOven]

Interesting that so many Trump supporters are critical of a billionaire that acts like he knows everything and who might not be the business genius he presents himself as.

[sonatine]

1. Loan your campaign money
2. Spend your campaign money on your own products and properties
3. Pay yourself back from your campaign
4. Profit

I'm not Trump defender, but I don't think that's what he was doing. Look at the amounts involved. That might seem like big money to you and I, but not to someone like Donald Trump.

I believe that these expenditures were simply the campaign using Trump's own products/services for their needs, probably because they knew them best and of course knew they would get the top service. I agree it's a conflict of interest and doesn't look good, but I don't think it's Trump's way of embezzling from his campaign. I mean... that ledger even shows a $94 payment. Do you think Trump is embezzling $94 from his campaign?

I think the news here is the obliviousness. Of course its not much money and of course Hillary would do the same thing but she would at least create front companies that didnt use her own name, because Hillary is a sophisticated gangster.

[bukowski72]

From MJ's House of Horrors




For sidepillow:



More Fail -- Trump with Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. What is behind them? (Besides the 2 copies of Forum Magazine, which is reminiscent of the Big Lebowski Wall of Fame)



PS Isn't that also an autographed pic of a bunch of ladies in bikinis on the bottom left?

[tyde]

It's important to note re: CNN

Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper are both cock gobbling faggots

[chinamaniac]

Current Line is Hilary -350 or Trump +300 on sportsbook

[tyde]

This narrative today being blasted across the mainstream media that Hillary is smoking Trump on campaign financing is absurd.

I can't fucking wait until he opens up the checkbook.

This idea that Donald is short on funds is absurd.

Lol all day today they are suggesting Hillary has this huge edge on Super PAC contributions and her campaign bankroll

Even if Trump has exaggerated his personal wealth...

I promise you he has at least 100 million in reserves to stomp this bitch

[tyde]

I can't even watch CNN with Don Lemon or Anderson Cooper anymore because all I can visualize is them with cocks stuffed down their throats

[blake]

This narrative today being blasted across the mainstream media that Hillary is smoking Trump on campaign financing is absurd.

I can't fucking wait until he opens up the checkbook.

This idea that Donald is short on funds is absurd.

Lol all day today they are suggesting Hillary has this huge edge on Super PAC contributions and her campaign bankroll

Even if Trump has exaggerated his personal wealth...

I promise you he has at least 100 million in reserves to stomp this bitch

i don't think you're getting how big of an issue this is. did i already mention than ben carson has more cash in his campaign then trump?

"It's low for a Senate race, much less a presidential race," said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who formerly worked for Sen. Marco Rubio.

"I have a state Senate client that has more in the bank," said another GOP operative formerly aligned with Rubio’s campaign. The number was "almost so low that it's not even comprehendable."

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...#ixzz4CH9QcRzz

also donors are smart enough to realize that any money they give him would go right into trump's pockets cause he is 1000% going to pay himself back the $50 million he lent himself.

"This is a guy who lent himself $30 [million] or $40 million so chuckleheads and suckers like me would go and raise money for him and then pay himself back. This is a total fraud. He's a fraud," the former Bush bundler said, referring to the fact that Trump loaned his campaign the cash and could still repay himself."

and finally lol at spending all that campaign money on businesses that you own and asking donors to fund that. all over cable news today, they were saying that using campaign funds to purchase products from your own businesses is unheard of and not just for ethical/campaign finance reasons, but also cause why would donors contribute to a campaign that is just looting that money?

for fuck's sake, trump actually bragged that he could run for president and MAKE MONEY back in 2000

The spending raised eyebrows among campaign finance experts and some of Mr. Trump’s critics who have questioned whether the presumptive Republican nominee, who points to his business acumen as a case for his candidacy, is trying to do what he has suggested he would in 2000 when he mulled making an independent run: “It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”

“He could end up turning a profit if he repaid himself for the campaign loans,” said Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert with the Campaign Legal Center. “He could get all his money back plus the profit margin for what his campaign has paid himself for goods and services.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/us...ents.html?_r=0

[sonatine]

the reason why trump hasnt head shot a cool 8 figures into his account is the same reason why hes not going to in the future;



because its money down the drain.


he knows what these numbers mean. this shouldnt be close in the polls. i admire his restraint here, tremendously. this is what makes him profitable; not investing money he cannot be sure of recouping somehow.

hes going to run a 'grass roots' campaign, lose by 15%, and then make a big stink about how he got taken in by opposition hucksters who diluted his message and raided his coffers. and then hes going to announce the start of his media empire which is basically going to be fox news with baseball hat giveaways every hour.

[sonatine]

Im also going to venture a guess that some limey trying to air him out probably forced him to have some quiet moments of reflection regarding whether or not this is something he's willing to die for.

[tyde]

Rachel Maddow all fired up tonight before she goes home to do some serious carpet munching

Can't wait for Trump to unload tommorow

[tyde]

Lol MSNBC

This shit is fucking hilarious

[tyde]

I expect greatness tommorow from Sir Donald

This man came to play

[hongkonger]

Donald Trump’s Latest Campaign Finance Report Makes Dumpster Fires Look Good
Trump’s campaign only has $1.3 million cash on hand. Sad!
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57...b0853f8bf1fdb0



(How's that train ride going, now, thesidedish?)

Nice GIF using footage from Back to the Future III.

[hongkonger]

I'm def no Cuban nuthugger but he's continued to do smart things financially through the years since his big payday. Fuck that guy though.

At least he may be the worlds most liked billionaire. Considering the current state of the professional victim class, that's saying something.

[thesidedish]

Too much green rep for the Austin powers post


varys: Even dish should see the irony

my post pointed out that he was annoyingly copying trump. No irony, trailblazers are god, copycats are trash.

bukowski72: Sidedish is going to Cry into his Animie Girlfriend Pillow tonight

just awful stuff...one of the worst posters there is, guy should be posting pictures amirite?

El Gallo: Excellent observation

doesn't get any more bias than this guy loving everything anti-trump he sees

big dick: this guy is lights out

lol and of course big dick doesn't have a clue whats going on

[hongkonger]

I'm not Trump defender, but I don't think that's what he was doing. Look at the amounts involved. That might seem like big money to you and I, but not to someone like Donald Trump.

I believe that these expenditures were simply the campaign using Trump's own products/services for their needs, probably because they knew them best and of course knew they would get the top service. I agree it's a conflict of interest and doesn't look good, but I don't think it's Trump's way of embezzling from his campaign. I mean... that ledger even shows a $94 payment. Do you think Trump is embezzling $94 from his campaign?

I don't know. The guy makes a big show of giving presents of jewelry that are fake. He had a presidential press conference where he talked about his products, some of which didn't even exist anymore. I don't think he got into the campaign to make a buck, but do I think he's using every chance to spend campaign money on his own stuff? Absolutely. He might not get the donations required to pay himself back.

In which case the unrecoverable loan is a tax write-off.