Trump spent much of the primary shunning donations, telling his supporters not to contribute to his campaign and ridiculing his opponents for accepting donations from special interest groups and wealthy contributors.
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“With Corey, I’m really proud of him”, Trump told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday.
Trump has made building a wall on the border with Mexico a central part of his campaign, and his comments on immigrants have enraged many ethnic minorities.
Donald Trump may not be raising and spending huge sums yet in his presidential campaign, but a chunk of that early money is staying close to home.
Donald Trump fired Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager who helped him win the Republican Party’s presidential nominating contests but has clashed with other advisers about how to appeal to the broader general electorate, two people with knowledge of the decision said on Monday.
“Let Trump be Trump”, he would say. Lewandowski contributed to the campaign by help fundraise and the search for on Trump’s running mate.
Republicans have also grumbled that Trump’s controversies have overshadowed real weaknesses for Clinton, including a scathing State Department report on her email practices and a grim jobs report that could undermine her case for sticking with President Barack Obama’s economic agenda. He has promoted Trump products at campaign events, publicly litigated a federal civil suit he’s facing over Trump University on talk shows, and, this week, will bring the political press to Scotland for a tour of a Trump golf course.
A presidential campaign dismissing its highest-ranking strategist just a month before its party’s nominating convention isn’t generally cause for celebration, but as Media Matters notes, the news of Lewandowski’s ouster was met with enthusiasm by some conservative commentators, who hailed the decision as evidence that a new, more serious Trump campaign is nigh.
Trump’s allies have said the cash is now “pouring in” for the general election.
In his businesses and presidential campaign, Trump requires almost everyone to sign legally binding nondisclosure agreements prohibiting them from releasing confidential or disparaging information about the real estate mogul, his family or his companies.
“I got to tell you, though, I give him a 10”.
Senior adviser Barry Bennett said that, while there’s never a good time for a campaign shake-up, he’s glad it came ahead of the convention.
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Trump has also been slow to embrace an aggressive plan to raise the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to fund both his campaign and the RNC’s ground game – frustrating donors. The PAC had $500,971 cash remaining at the beginning of June. So it’s false to say that he has $1.3 million.
