Trump Gives Up On $1 Billion Fund Goal After Mark Cuban Says He Will "Grovel For Money"
By Tyler Durden
One month ago, Donald Trump raised eyebrows and in some cases, tempers, when the “anti-establishment” candidate announced that he had picked Goldman Sachs veteran, and former George Soros trader, Steven Mnuchin, as his finance chairman, who was supposed to help the New York mogul raise as much as $1 billion to fund his presidential campaign. However, it appears Mnuchin’s fundraising services will not be as needed as initially thought. In an interview with Bloomberg, Donald Trump distanced himself from his own fundraising estimate of $1 billion, refusing to commit to collecting even half that amount, and saying his campaign didn’t need much money to win the White House.
Instead Trump, who has held just two major fundraising events since agreeing three weeks ago to help the party raise cash, said he would rely instead more on his own star power as a former reality-TV personality to earn free media, and has no specific goals for how much money his campaign needs.
“There’s no reason to raise that,” Trump said about raising $1 billion. “I just don’t think I need nearly as much money as other people need because I get so much publicity. I get so many invitations to be on television. I get so many interviews, if I want them.”
In an extended interview inside his Trump Tower office on Wednesday—his first after the final day of Republican nomination contests—Trump also said he has narrowed his running-mate search to four or five politicians from within the party’s establishment, including several former campaign rivals.
Trump also spoke at length about his controversial real-estate program, Trump University, despite a lengthy statement a day earlier in which he said he did “not intend to comment on this matter any further.” He continued to insist that he’s been treated unfairly in the case, and pointed to positive reviews of the school. “Another said, ‘I went to Harvard and this was better,'” Trump said. He declined say whether he agreed or disagreed with that assessment, adding, “The experience was very good for a lot of people.”
However in an indication that Trump is trying to become more moderate, unlike previous interviews on the subject, he didn’t turn to personal attacks against federal judge Gonzalo Curiel.
“It’s not a big case and they don’t care about it,” Trump said about voters. “Nobody cares. We want to get on to where the economy is going and everything else.”
Some other details from the interview:
In contrast to the loud and outrageous performance Trump delivers at his public rallies, he was engaging and even made at attempt at humility when a reporter suggested he had out-negotiated House Speaker Paul Ryan to win the Wisconsin Republican’s endorsement. “I didn’t out-negotiate him,” Trump said. “He is a very good guy. I think Paul and I will deal on certain issues.
“But Trump’s brashness was on display, too, as he responded to a Bloomberg Politics article on Monday about a chaotic private phone call in which he ordered about three dozen of his …read more
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