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Trump defends payments to his own businesses for campaign expenses

Donald Trump, who over the past year became the biggest self-funder in the history of presidential primaries, announced Thursday that he is forgiving the almost $50 million he has loaned to his campaign.

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Officials with Trump’s campaign said the paperwork to complete the loan forgiveness would be filed with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday. “Laureate made money by racking up student debt on vulnerable students”.

“Singh visited the U.S.in September 2008 to lobby for a deal allowing India to obtain civilian nuclear technology; then-Senator Clinton assured him democrats would not block the deal”, the Trump campaign alleged.

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“Therefore, he has personally invested in excess of $50 million dollars in the future of our country”, his campaign announced in a statement emailed to reporters. His financial report this weekend showed he had $1.3 million on hand as of the end of May, a report that only included about a week of active fundraising by Trump and his associated committees.

“Mr. Trump and the campaign have assembled an exceptional fundraising operation, which in recent days has been overwhelmed with contributions for the Republican Party”, his campaign said in the Thursday statement.

“We’ve really ramped up the effort this month”, Mnuchin said.

Hillary Clinton would be beholden to foreign entities as president because her family has taken money from governments whose values run counter to those of the United States, Trump said in remarks lasting more than 40 minutes.

On the Wednesday edition of “The O’Reilly Factor”, host Bill O’Reilly and Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera engaged in a shouting match over whether Donald Trump’s “slanderous” comments about Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State “bordered on treason”.

“I’ve love to, frankly, just do it and you know, just say it’s part of the campaign”.

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That figure surpassed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who lent his campaign $44.7 million in 2008 in an unsuccessful attempt to win the Republican nomination.

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