Donald Trump flips on self-funding. Now accepting corporate donations

[zenkai]

Doesn't that spell Hillaryous

I agree btw.

clever pun

[unbound]

Trump needs money to run a national campaign, we know where he stands on issues that are important to us. We want the wall and we want to deport illegals and fix our trade agreements. I don't really care what he does after that.

Wait a minute. People actually believe he is going to build that wall, deport all illegals, and fix trade agreements?

Seriously? Do any Trump supporters even remotely understand that none of those things will happen or would have disastrous consequences to US citizens?

That wall isn't going to be built (certainly not paid for by Mexico) as it is both a complete waste of money to be built as Trump described and horribly expensive to maintain ( http://www.nationalmemo.com/an-engin...o-implausible/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU8dCYocuyI ).

You can't deport all the illegals because it is a fluid issue, not a static 11 million people to find and deport ( http://cis.org/immigrant-flows ).

And, as a business, you certainly can renegotiate things like debt and other agreements...that isn't how it works between nations and there are huge (or should I say yuuuuuge) problems with Trump's concepts ( http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/15/inve...mp-trade-oped/ ).

[Aggrophobic]

Yes, but I mean a new fence. The current one is not very effective and really isn't meant to be (because walls and fences don't do much anyway, since most people come through checkpoints and by water)

I know, thats what makes Trumps obsession with his wall so hilarious.

[Wildtree]

Trump will take hints from Erich Honecker who always begrudged that his talents as roofer were underused and he had to do with a wall. As a staunch Honeckerist Trump will not only build a wall - around the US that is - but also...a roof with tremendous beamers projecting beautiful skies on its huge ceiling with the sun, the moon and even planet Earth on it!

next we know he builds railroad tracks across the Atlantic, and sends a train to Pankow
(probably have to be German to understand that joke)

For all we know he might even be Silvio Berlusconi in disguise

Silvio has brains though.

[edw]

Trump needs money to run a national campaign, we know where he stands on issues that are important to us. We want the wall and we want to deport illegals and fix our trade agreements. I don't really care what he does after that.

I'm not American but I do like Trump to an extent, tho what you just mentioned are not the fundamental issues that are breaking your USA

p.s the cost of that wall (check out it's cost and maintenance) it's dumb'o'ton humangus xD ... probably a lot of good and useful things can be made with that cash instead of a wall xD

[Deleted]

This one takes the cake because not only this is suggesting that Trump should pull a Berlusconi it is also suggesting that literally state-owned media are the way to go, basically that thing that makes a difference between the US and Russia is supposed to vanish and be replaced by a version which would probably require the US constitution to be replaced by a piece of paper that reads "CATZ R COOL!".

As in he should be getting involved in orgies involving minors and ministers?

[Jibjub]

Self funding...
Put up your own money.
Someone who brags about having 10 billion dollars, should be able to put the money where the mouth is, and spend a billion on his campaign.

First, he is a business man. Why would he put up his own money for a national campaign -- which is a terrible investment even if he wins -- when he could get donations? Running a primary race is not anything close to running a national campaign.

Second, his self worth is under 5 billion. And WORTH is not the same as liquid cash. You must know the difference, right? Even a life insurance policy counts as part of your net worth. You think he should sell everything he owns and go for broke?

Third, even the socialist darling of America, Bernie Sanders, accepts donations. Because, news flash -- you need money to win. This isn't a movie where some underdog wins the heart of America and gets all the votes with a write-in win. They are estimating that over 5 billion dollars will be spent this year on the entire election...

Let's use our brains.

[TZucchini]

Do people still not realize Hooked is just a parody troll account saying the most stupidly outlandish things possible?

I guess I just find it hard to believe that there are actually people out there who find it satisfying to waste their time "trolling" complete strangers on a video game forum.

[Raetary]

The wall is getting built if we need to build It ourselves.

no one with a normal mind would pay for that shit.

[Orbitus]

First, he is a business man. Why would he put up his own money for a national campaign -- which is a terrible investment even if he wins -- when he could get donations? Running a primary race is not anything close to running a national campaign.

Second, his self worth is under 5 billion. And WORTH is not the same as liquid cash. You must know the difference, right? Even a life insurance policy counts as part of your net worth. You think he should sell everything he owns and go for broke?

Third, even the socialist darling of America, Bernie Sanders, accepts donations. Because, news flash -- you need money to win. This isn't a movie where some underdog wins the heart of America and gets all the votes with a write-in win. They are estimating that over 5 billion dollars will be spent this year on the entire election...

Let's use our brains.

Sorry but Trump claimed he was worth $10 billion, that is what Wildtree was stating. Even though the highest estimates show him at nothing higher than $4 billion. Not to mention he is literally personally in debt of $265 million.

Bernie on the other hand has NO SUPER PACS, and no donations that are higher than the $2700 limit to his campaign, and yet he still manages to raise and extreme amount of money. None of which comes from corporations. Trump has both, super pacs and corporate donations.

[Wildtree]

First, he is a business man. Why would he put up his own money for a national campaign

Because that was exactly what he said.
There's no way around that.
That's an official video

[Cthulhu 2020]

Well done kids

You all missed the actual news - and that is not Trump's flip-flopping, I mean who cares about that, Hillary has flip-flopped on every issue ever

Trump is now getting corporate donations

Big money is moving away from Hillary towards Trump, and big money always backs the winner, that is the nature of American politics

It's happening, prepare for President Trump

It seems you didn't read the article. All the Republican donors know Trump is winning the primary, so they're yanking their support from other Republicans to give it to Trump. Hillary donors are still behind Hillary.




Trump is now just as much a shill as Hillary. But Trump was always in this for the profit of himself and his friends. He knew what the far right easily-fooled Americans wanted to hear, and he's bad at pandering to moderates which is who he really needs to pander to to win. 37% of the Republican party will vote for him no matter what he says now, and he's proven that his pull on the moderate stances of the party is weak.

[Macaquerie]

Do people still not realize Hooked is just a parody troll account saying the most stupidly outlandish things possible?

Come on guys.

What a surprise, Trump is a gigantic hypocrite. Nobody saw that coming. Nope. Definitely wasn't painfully obvious for years before he even declared he was running.

Trump himself is little more than a troll anyway. The only reason his campaign got the kind of coverage it did at first was because everybody thought it was a joke and figured it would be a good ratings bump. But over time as Trump stories just kept on flooding the airwaves, some of that morbid curiosity turned into genuine support, which is just unbelievably sad and makes me sad for the future.

[Shurkuris]

Damage control much for him dropping the "R" word on the Clintons?

[Deleted]

Sooo yeah is this confirmed?

[Cthulhu 2020]

Because that was exactly what he said.
There's no way around that.
That's an official video

His contribution to his campaign is about 99.8% loans, meaning he's getting his money back from someone one way or another, and then that someone(s) is suddenly his campaign donor, and everyone who fawned over him funding his own campaign just got tricked simply because he lent his own campaign money for a short time.

[Wildtree]

His contribution to his campaign is about 99.8% loans, meaning he's getting his money back from someone one way or another, and then that someone(s) is suddenly his campaign donor, and everyone who fawned over him funding his own campaign just got tricked simply because he lent his own campaign money for a short time.

Yep, the loans he gave to his campaign, he gets them back now from the RNC funding deal he made.
Which means, he didn't self fund a damn thing. And, there's a chance that he made a profit, if those loans were given with interest.
He fooled a portion of the electorate, and that portion now tries to make up an excuse for him.
Which I can understand, because I would not like to be taken for a fool either. lol

[Spectral]

At least he caught onto politics quickly! Lying to commit de facto embezzlement is just one of the many benefits to becoming a successful politician. Anyone that's surprised that Trump's a liar is a damned fool.

[Ghostpanther]

clever pun

But is the truth. This will have just about zero impact on those who are already going to vote for him and with all the adds the money can create, may get some more. I can see the left getting nervous and more aggressive in their denouncements of him because they may be feeling he might just win. Not that polls this early are very accurate, but they can show a shifting of a overall feeling about a candidate. And the polls are showing he is slowly closing the gap between himself and Hillary.

[Wildtree]

Anyone that's surprised that Trump's a liar is a damned fool.

What about those that deny, or lie about him being a liar?
We need another term for them.