He loaned his campaign the funds. More likely, he will write off the loan on next year's tax return. Of course, the source is an extreme left wing one, so much for any perspective.
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Yep, the cheap and easy way to dismiss something without any kind of either independent verification or proof of error--just attack the source. That is the lazy man's polemical preference and it really sucks.
No, writing off a loan to one's campaign fund as a loss is quite common for politicians. Just another one of Condie's discourses of ignorance.
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I know of no other politicians who have claimed self-financing under this kind of scenario and neither do you.
Writing off a loan such as you describe is indeed a common practice, but you carefully avoided addressing the indisputable fact that he has repeatedly claimed that he is "self-financing" and that he thereby avoids any implications that he will be subject to the undue influence of lobbyists or other powerful special interests who might otherwise donate to his campaign. He never said anything that would imply that his "self-financing" would be limited to the primary campaign. And he is now accepting donations as the presumptive nominee (and was in fact accepting some donations during the primary as well). And if he is repaid his loan, then he can scarcely even claim to have "self-financed" his primary campaign, since in the final analysis his outlays during the primary will be reimbursed, having in the final analysis become been donor-financed, not "self-financed."
Trump is as phony as a three-dollar bill.