You don't think other politicians don't borrow against their investments/businesses and pay THEMSELVES back?
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/14/463093708/the-ted-cruz-goldman-sachs-loan-explained
It's a common practice.
That’s not what I was talking about. Apples to kumquats.
The article you posted was regarding whether Cruz properly reported loans he made to his 2012 Senate campaign, $1.43 million while not disclosing that some of that money, around $1 million of that came from a margin loan from his and his wife’s Goldman Sack account and borrowing against a line of credit from their Citibank account. So note these were loans against secured assets not unsecured bank loans.
And the loans were reported but on a Senate disclosure form, not on the FEC filing, which Cruz said was an oversight and would be amended if the FEC requested.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cruz-addresses-nyt-report-that-he-didnt-disclose-goldman-sachs-loan-for-12-campaign/ http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/01/14/sorry-nyt-cruzs-goldman-sachs-loan-was-disclosed-n2104684 Trump has loaned money to his campaign and disclosed them. Nothing wrong with that.
The Trump campaign paid companies he owns for services, to the tune of $6 million, nearly 10% of his total campaign expenditures. Nothing wrong or illegal about that but is unprecedented and raises some ethics questions.
Romney, Forbes, Perot and Bloomberg, also wealthy men, all loaned or donated personal funds to their campaigns. But they didn’t spend campaign funds on their own business enterprises, standing to personally profit from campaign expenditures such as Trump would should he not forgive the campaign loans and pays himself back from campaign contributions.
If he does not convert the $43.5 million he’s loaned his campaign so far to a contribution, something he recently said he would after the details of his last FEC filing was released, but has not yet made good on that promise, then he can use campaign contributions to pay himself back his loans but he and his companies keep the money and the profits on the campaign expenditures.
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-06-21/trumps-campaign-cycles-6-million-into-trump-companieshttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-could-still-pay-himself-back-for-campaign-spending/article/2594426