http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/10/16/what_the_fundraising_numbers_tell_usWhat the Fundraising Numbers Tell Us
October 16, 2015
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RUSH: Now, let's go to this donation story, because this, folks, is also a teachable moment. Let me first assure with you some news stories and headlines about this. The New York Times is literally outraged over what they have learned. Story is by Eric Lichtblau. The headline: "Donations to Donald Trump's Campaign Outpace Self-Funding." The story begins this way: "For months, Donald J. Trump has highlighted his credentials as a politician who was financing his own campaign for president. No longer.
"Mr. Trump revealed in a filing Thursday to the Federal Election Commission that the vast majority of the money he raised and spent this summer as he rose to the top of national polls came not from his own coffers, as it had in the spring, but from about $3.7 million in what he called 'unsolicited contributions.' Some 74,000 donors pitched in an average of about $50 to help his campaign, he reported," and they are livid.
They're livid because they think Trump lied to them. They think Trump's out there saying, "Hey, I'm not gonna take money from anybody! I'm not gonna be beholden to anybody. I'm a rich guy. I have $10 billion, maybe more. Who can count? It's the best $10 billion anybody ever had. My billions are better than anybody else's billions, and I got more than anybody else and I'm spending mine. I'm not spending anybody else's."
Then they learn that people have been donating, and they think Trump has lied, they think they got Trump, they think they can expose Trump here as a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller who has misled people. But instead what old Eric Lichtblau and the New York Times are inadvertently proving here is Trump's case. Trump's claim has always been he's not going to sell himself to big donors, like Hillary and so many other candidates do. The people sending Trump money, 50 bucks?
They're not expecting special favors from a Trump administration. They know that 50 bucks isn't get them Trump loyalty on anything. When Trump says the money's unsolicited, that's what really ticks them off. People are voluntarily sending Trump money when he doesn't need it. All the other candidates need it. They don't have their own money. Trump does, and people are still sending him money, and that just ticks them off. From many standpoints, it isn't fair.
You know, in a socialist world, a guy that's got $10 billion ought to be giving his money away. People ought not be sending him money. It isn't fair. Trump's got enough. He shouldn't be getting money. They shouldn't be sending him money. It's not fair, it's not fair. And then it just ticks them off besides all that that there are people so supportive of Trump that they would send him money even when he doesn't ask for it. That scares them.
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