{"id":15422,"date":"2016-06-21T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15422"},"modified":"2016-06-21T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:36:18","slug":"yet-another-hard-lesson-for-trump-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15422","title":{"rendered":"Yet another hard lesson for Trump: money"},"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\/campaign-finance-leftover-money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15423\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/campaign-finance-leftover-money-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"campaign-finance-leftover-money\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/campaign-finance-leftover-money-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/campaign-finance-leftover-money-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/campaign-finance-leftover-money-1024x617.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s campaign for the presidency seems to be officially in peril, as in serious peril.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the presumptive Republican nominee&#8217;s big mouth, by itself, that has gotten him into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is it the man&#8217;s apparently shoddy management style that has cast a pall over his bid to become president.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s money, man.<\/p>\n<p>Or, the lack of it.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;success&#8221; of his\u00a0enormous business empire, which he says will enable him to &#8220;self-fund&#8221; his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. Did someone call him a &#8220;fraud&#8221;? Wasn&#8217;t it one or more of his former Republican presidential primary opponents who hung that label on him?<\/p>\n<p>The latest Federal Elections Commission filings reveal that Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign is virtually broke.<\/p>\n<p>No worries, Trump tells us. In the words of Al Pacino&#8217;s character, Col Frank Slade,\u00a0in &#8220;Scent of a Woman,&#8221; he is &#8220;just getting <em>wahrmed<\/em> up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. Then again, perhaps the &#8220;fraud&#8221; label has stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Is he as rich as he says? Is he really and truly able to self-fund this campaign? His tax returns might tell us.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait &#8230;<\/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&#8217;s campaign for the presidency seems to be officially in peril, as in serious peril. It&#8217;s not the presumptive Republican nominee&#8217;s big mouth, by itself, that has gotten him into trouble. Nor is it the man&#8217;s apparently shoddy management style that has cast a pall over his bid to become president. It&#8217;s money, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet another hard lesson for Trump: money<\/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":[2,13,14],"tags":[822,1424,6343],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-campaign-money","tag-donald-trump","tag-fec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","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=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15424,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions\/15424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}