Trump Defends Raising Less Money Than Biden: I Don’t Like Big Donors Anyway!

President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a press conference in the James S. Brady Briefing Room of the White House on August 31, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday night defended his campaign raising less cash in August than Democratic rival Joe Biden — who raked in a record-breaking $364 million last month — on Wednesday night by claiming he didn’t want help from big donors.

When Fox News host Sean Hannity asked if Trump running fewer ads than Biden in Florida was a “strategy” and mentioned that the President was “shy of $300 million” (which is false; the Trump campaign had raised $210 million last month), Trump claimed his campaign has “a lot of money coming in from small donors.”

“I haven’t been heavy on big donors because I don’t want to call them,” the President told Hannity. “When you called big donors, you sort of put yourself in a very compromising position. When somebody puts up a lot of money, you’re in a compromised position. Whether you say it, whether you don’t say it, it doesn’t matter.”

“What I like are the small donors,” he added.

Trump said he would put up his own money into his campaign “if I saw that we needed more.” Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that Trump was considering pouring as much as $100 million into his reelection efforts.

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  1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    Shut up

  2. Believe me, Donny boy, the feeling is mutual.

  3. Best ‘sour grapes’ response I’ve seen in a long time…

  4. Money, who needs money? I have me, my spectacular, fantastic personality. I’m the best thing that has ever happened to America, everyone knows that.

  5. Russia, if you’re listening…

    I hope someone’s listening to Putin’s oligarchs this time.

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