{"id":15416,"date":"2016-06-21T03:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15416"},"modified":"2016-06-21T03:17:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T03:17:26","slug":"trumps-big-pile-of-cash-isnt-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15416","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s big pile of cash &#8230; isn&#8217;t there"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/trumpdonald_061516getty2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15417\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/trumpdonald_061516getty2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"trumpdonald_061516getty2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/trumpdonald_061516getty2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/trumpdonald_061516getty2.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump keeps boasting about all the money he has earned.<\/p>\n<p>He keeps saying he will &#8220;self-finance&#8221; his campaign for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is just in: Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign has $1.3 million in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, that&#8217;s a lot of money to folks like me. For a presidential campaign in June? It&#8217;s pauper territory, dude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/284214-trump-ends-may-with-just-13-million-in-bank\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/284214-trump-ends-may-with-just-13-million-in-bank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217; presumed nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Trump keeps telling adoring audiences that he is worth billions of dollars. He says he won&#8217;t ask for money from donors because, well, he doesn&#8217;t need it!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, he does.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Trump waged his primary campaign by appealing to the GOP base that comprises primarily the TEA Party wing of the Republican Party. He&#8217;s now being forced to appeal to a broader audience. To reach those folks, the man needs money &#8230; that he <em>does not have.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to start pouring some of that vast wealth of his into his bid to become president.<\/p>\n<p>If he has it.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump keeps boasting about all the money he has earned. He keeps saying he will &#8220;self-finance&#8221; his campaign for the presidency. Well, this is just in: Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign has $1.3 million in the bank. Sure, that&#8217;s a lot of money to folks like me. For a presidential campaign in June? It&#8217;s pauper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump&#8217;s big pile of cash &#8230; isn&#8217;t there<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[819,1424,1941,2139,4531],"class_list":["post-15416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-campaign-finance","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15418,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416\/revisions\/15418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}