Trump’s FEC Filings Reveal Ominous Patterns

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President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign finances are, in many ways, the mirror image of his personal wealth. The sums of money involved are huge, his personal statements often are demonstrably false, he is prone to steering money into his own pocket and he likes to see his name on things.

However, while Trump is doing all he can to obscure his personal finances — he famously became the first candidate in decades not to release his taxes — he is bound by law to account for the money his campaign took in and to document how it was spent.

That’s why, in our search for clues, WhoWhatWhy closely examined every one of the campaign’s Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. They show, among other things, that Trump fell well short of spending the $100 million that he said he would invest in his own campaign.

“I will have over $100 million in the campaign, and I’m prepared to go much more than that,” Trump said with only two weeks to go in the campaign. At that point, he was $45 million short of reaching his stated goal. After putting in another $10 million that same week, his personal contribution for the entire campaign topped out at $66 million. 

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