Donald J. Trump keeps boasting about all the money he has earned.
He keeps saying he will “self-finance” his campaign for the presidency.
Well, this is just in: Trump’s presidential campaign has $1.3 million in the bank.
Sure, that’s a lot of money to folks like me. For a presidential campaign in June? It’s pauper territory, dude.
The presumptive Republican nominee is now facing the possibility of running out of money for a campaign that it plans to wage against a heavily financed, thoroughly staffed and profoundly professional effort on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democrats’ presumed nominee.
Trump keeps telling adoring audiences that he is worth billions of dollars. He says he won’t ask for money from donors because, well, he doesn’t need it!
Actually, he does.
It is quite true that Trump won many of the primary races while being outspent by his opponents. But that was then. The here and now is quite different.
Trump waged his primary campaign by appealing to the GOP base that comprises primarily the TEA Party wing of the Republican Party. He’s now being forced to appeal to a broader audience. To reach those folks, the man needs money … that he does not have.
It’s time to start pouring some of that vast wealth of his into his bid to become president.
If he has it.