Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 12
"I'm self-funding my own campaign" — he funded about a fifth of it
Broken“I'm self-funding my own campaign. It's my money. ... I don't need anybody's money.”
- Promised
- , Campaign launch and repeatedly at rallies and debates through the 2016 primaries
- Re-promised
- 12 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Ethics & conflicts
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Trump passively accepted small-dollar contributions from the day he announced; by May 2016 supporters had given his campaign roughly $14 million. After clinching the nomination he began fundraising in earnest with the RNC and from major donors. In the end he personally funded about 20 percent of the 2016 effort — the other 80 percent was other people's money — and by 2020 and 2024 he was running conventional donor-funded campaigns.