She spent a little over $14 million in the same month, and her cash on hand stands at more than $42.4 million. Last month, when he began to focus increasingly on Bill Clinton and the scandals of the 1990s, the former secretary of state made clear that she had no plans to parry with Trump on the issue. “He actually said that”, Jake Sullivan, senior policy adviser to Hillary Clinton, 68, said during a conference call yesterday.
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She then referred to the USA presidential election, with an implicit comparison of her own leadership with that of Republican opponent Donald Trump.
Trump’s campaign released a statement confirming the loan had been forgiven and framed the action as Trump donating to America’s future.
Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt he is required by law to reimburse all vendors for his campaign expenditures, lest he risk running afoul of Federal Elections Commission rules that count discounted or free use of facilities as in-kind campaign donations. Trump accused the Clintons of accepting donations via their public charity, the Clinton Foundation, from leaders of countries guilty of human rights abuses.
On Wednesday, Richard Armitage, a longtime Republican foreign-policy expert hailed Clinton’s candidature and declined to back Trump as the GOP nominee. “There’s no reason for that”, Trump said.
Clinton seemed joyful when talking about how much Trump “hates it when anyone points out how hollow his sales pitch really is” and even had an answer to the billionaire businessman’s famous “You’re fired” line from The Apprentice.
“In the midst of this market instability”, the campaign spokesman said, “as American households are wondering about the fate of their 401k’s, he’s basking in the outcome and suggesting that maybe it will help him personally profit”. “He has no real strategy for creating jobs, just a string of empty promises”, she said.
One area where Mrs Clinton appears to be in a position of financial strength is in her campaign’s solid record of fundraising.
Citing a New York Times report, the Trump campaign alleged that as early as 2008, Indian politician Amar Singh had donated between United States dollars 1,000,001 and USD 5,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
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Looking closely at the numbers, Trump donated $400,000 in campaign office space and salaries of some employees who are now working on his campaign.
