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    Last Burner, I SwearBrendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:32pm

    So you criticize him for a finance report where he barely raised money in a month. Then you criticize him for a finance report where he raised a decent amount of money.

    I don’t support Trump, but come on guys. You can’t criticize something he isn’t doing, and then criticize when he actually does it.

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      DoobyOneLast Burner, I Swear
      7/07/16 1:34pm

      No one believes him.

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      DashleyinCaliLast Burner, I Swear
      7/07/16 1:39pm

      No reason whatsoever to be skeptical of broad, surprising claims from Trump and his campaign.

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    RobNYCBrendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:27pm

    Trump Campaign Just Pulling Meaningless Fundraising Numbers Out of Thin Air at This Point

    That’s exactly how he comes up with his net worth so he’s got a plan and sticking to it.

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      Promnight Dumpster Baby FireRobNYC
      7/07/16 1:31pm

      Its how he came up with “Ted Cruz’s father killed Kennedy,” its how he came up with rapist hordes of illegals, its how he came up with everything, its all he has, whatever he can pull out of his ass.

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      DoobyOnePromnight Dumpster Baby Fire
      7/07/16 1:35pm

      Don’t forget he’s the crown prince of birthers. Jerome Corsi is the king.

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    KyuzoBrendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:40pm

    There is no fucking way Trump raised $51 million in five weeks. No.

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      IanKyuzo
      7/07/16 1:43pm

      Especially after previously raising $3.1 million.

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      BoogerFace2Kyuzo
      7/07/16 1:47pm

      I see you have an understanding of campaign fundraising.

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    RealAmurricanBrendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:59pm

    Is there any update on Sheldon Adelson, and the $100 million that he’s committed to the campaign? Or am I misunderstanding where Super PAC money goes?

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      MerijeekRealAmurrican
      7/07/16 2:06pm

      That wouldn’t show on a filing like this because it’s not Trump’s money, it’s money that Adelson will spend through a PAC. A PAC that tooootally wouldn’t coordinate with the Trump campaign -exaggerated wink-.

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      RealAmurricanMerijeek
      7/07/16 2:08pm

      Thanks for clarifying! I thought that was the case, but given the out-of-nowhere $51 million, I wondered whether that was a possibility.

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    FC37Brendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:53pm

    On revenue vs. income: Trump has said previously that he is unfamiliar with GAAP because he is “not an accountant.” Which is just a staggering admission for someone who claims to be an elite businessman. Plenty of non-CPAs know how to read an income statement or balance sheet. After all, all of those “deals” he cuts are really just claims to residual assets (income) for a project or property (unless he’s licensing his name or selling something).

    I can’t imagine that Wharton was very proud of that admission. Of course, they’re probably tired of a transfer student from undergrad letting people think that he got his MBA from Wharton, but that's another matter.

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      MWarnerMFC37
      7/07/16 2:26pm

      GAAP accounting is literally the first thing they teach you in an undergraduate accounting 101 class, which is a mandatory core requirement in any business major.

      I wasn’t even an accounting major and it’s been 15 years since I took an accounting class and I could still give you the basic broad stroke gist of GAAP. Trump is just a lazy dumbfuck who probably never went to any of his classes at Penn in the first place.

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      APissedAntFC37
      7/07/16 2:32pm

      Aren’t the residual assets in most of his deals negative? Isn’t that why he ends up bankrupting so many of these little companies?

      I’m under the impression that if he actually paid all his bondholders on all of his business deals, he’d have a negative net worth, and the only reason he actually has money is due to 1) licensing his name, 2) paying himself a hefty salary while the businesses he start are still running, and 3) transferring personal debt to the corporation before declaring bankruptcy.

      So he’s either a relatively smart crook (and pretending he doesn’t understand these terms when he really does), or a very luck idiot (and bankruptcy law and/or smart lawyers/accountants just keeps saving his ass).

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    AproposOfNothingBrendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:33pm

    Uhhhh... tell me those Clinton numbers again?

    By contrast, Hillary Clinton started May with $30.1 million cash on hand; raised $19.6 million; spent $14 million; and ended the month with $42.4 million—a gain of $12.3 million.

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      PetenrepeatAproposOfNothing
      7/07/16 1:41pm

      Why do you hate women??

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      DashleyinCaliAproposOfNothing
      7/07/16 1:41pm

      If I’m not mistaken, some of the money raised goes directly to Hillary’s campaign, some goes to the DNC joint victory fund.

      But yes, 42.4 mil minus 30.1 mil equals 12.3 mil.

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    ARP2Brendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:31pm

    That’s one of the side effects of constantly touting how rich and successful you are...people tend to avoid giving you money.

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      RobNYCARP2
      7/07/16 1:40pm

      That’s why every single bank except Deutsche Bank refuses to lend him money.

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      Goes To ElevenARP2
      7/07/16 1:43pm

      Also a side effect of multiple bankruptcies, which is why most banks won’t touch him (or his projects/investments) with a YUUUUGE 10ft pole...

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    JohnTChanceBrendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:31pm

    The number that blows me away is that he may have loaned his campaign close to $50 million so far. Raise your hand if you’re shocked he actually has that much to “loan” out.

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      hotoynoodleJohnTChance
      7/07/16 1:35pm

      It’s all a shell game and none of it is “his” money

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      MWarnerMJohnTChance
      7/07/16 2:18pm

      I seriously doubt that loan came from him personally. It was probably done through a network of subsidiary companies that have other investors.

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    DoobyOneBrendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:31pm

    Top campaign people won’t work with him. Top Republicans won’t go to Cleveland. His VP candidates are fucking jokes. This is your creation, GOP. Choke on it.

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      Goes To ElevenDoobyOne
      7/07/16 1:42pm

      There have been few things more deeply enjoyable at watching the GOP recoil in horror from the grotesque, yawning chasm of anger and hatred that Drumpf has exposed within the party’s core constituency - apparently they truly believed there would never be any consequence to wink-wink, nudge-nudge hinting at how they support all of these ugly things over the years, and now that it’s out of their dog-whistle, focus-group-tested control, they’re just shocked that people would believe or express such things!

      I’m going to enjoy watching them ride this sinking ship to the bottom of the electoral ocean, they so richly deserve it.

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      HellishHarlotDoobyOne
      7/07/16 1:45pm

      Mwahahahaa Sarah Palin is going to be the only reality show celebrity that can join him as VP and I need this to happen.

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    PunditGuyBrendan O'Connor
    7/07/16 1:29pm

    The numbers fluctuate based on how the campaign feels. Duh.

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