The Daily Kos team has had a lot of fun laughing at Donald Trump’s empty coffers, because he’s built his campaign the same way he’s built his businesses: completely on debt and lies.
But now, #DumpyDonald is learning that other people can lie about money, too. All those donors who said they’d be writing great big checks to his Super PAC are "''just frozen, they’re paralyzed,’ said one frustrated super-PAC fundraiser.”
Rebuilding America Now, which is "the [Trump] campaign’s preferred destination for big-dollar, unlimited contributions,” secured $32 million in PLEDGES. And a pledge is nothing more than a promise. And a promise is nothing more than… well, nothing.
But Rebulding America Now has collected only $2 million of those pledges — from a single donor — Laurance Gay, the managing director of Rebuilding America Now
The ONLY person to make good on his pledge is the managing director of the Super PAC itself!
This is why Hillary (and allies) outspent #DumpyDonald (and allies) by $22.7 million to $1.8 million in total TV advertising nationwide last month. All those empty pledges were earmarked for TV ads, which it turned out they couldn’t afford.
But don’t worry, says the Super PAC’s head. He’s announced his grand solution: another $10 million in yet-to-be-collected pledges! Yep, keep counting those chickens!
And it’s not just #DumpyDonald’s main Super PAC that can’t collect.
That super-PAC, called Great America PAC, raised a paltry $2.5 million this month from donors despite direct appeals from its co-chairman, veteran GOP strategist Ed Rollins.
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“There’s a lot of these donors that say they just need to see where this going to go,” Rollins told Yahoo News. “They want to know, ‘Is Trump going to be viable candidate?’ They’re saying, ‘Let me wait a couple of weeks.’”
Turns out all the big-dollar GOP donors like T. Boone Pickens and Sheldon Adelson are taking a page from Trump’s own playbook when it comes to donations: promising big but never actually cutting a check. Actual total donations from those two free-spending, politician-buying tycoons combined: $0.
Trump campaign: broke. Trump Super PACs: broke. GOP: broke.