Donald J. Trump’s campaign for the presidency seems to be officially in peril, as in serious peril.
It’s not the presumptive Republican nominee’s big mouth, by itself, that has gotten him into trouble.
Nor is it the man’s apparently shoddy management style that has cast a pall over his bid to become president.
It’s money, man.
Or, the lack of it.
Why is this an exceptionally big deal? Well, it has to do with the mouthiness of the nominee-to-be and his constant boasting from the campaign stump about how rich he has become. He keeps yapping about the vast wealth he has acquired. Trump keeps trumpeting the “success” of his enormous business empire, which he says will enable him to “self-fund” his presidential campaign.
Hmmm. Did someone call him a “fraud”? Wasn’t it one or more of his former Republican presidential primary opponents who hung that label on him?
The latest Federal Elections Commission filings reveal that Trump’s presidential campaign is virtually broke.
No worries, Trump tells us. In the words of Al Pacino’s character, Col Frank Slade, in “Scent of a Woman,” he is “just getting wahrmed up!”
Maybe. Then again, perhaps the “fraud” label has stuck.
Is he as rich as he says? Is he really and truly able to self-fund this campaign? His tax returns might tell us.
Oh, wait …
