Trump emails: Can you spare $10 to help elect a billionaire?

With all that in mind, he pronounced it unlikely that this Trump message could have generated the $3 million the campaign says it did, which would surpass the $2.6 million and change President Obama pulled in with a June 2012 “I will be outspent” message.

When Donald Trump’s Republican presidential campaign reported paltry fundraising totals last week, much of the political world was taken aback, and his woeful finances became a controversy unto themselves.

Bush locked up almost all the major Republican donors early in the election season because of his well-connected family, but after Trump hammered him HARD on the campaign trail, he had to drop out. “The Trump campaign thinks that in June of an election year they can just turn that on like a spigot, and frankly that’s offensive”.

Ironically, a huge roadblock from Trump being able to fundraise comes from none other than Jeb Bush!

The mass email seeking funds was sent by his son Eric Trump, who described it as the most ambitious fund raising campaign yet.

NBC News had this gem this morning, noting that the presumptive Republican nominee says that he forgave loans he made to his campaign, but there’s no proof that Trump actually did so.

“In the filing, the groups argue that a fundraising email from Trump’s campaign this month went to “dozens” of politicians from Iceland, Scotland, Australia and Britain, as noted by media and tweets, with email addresses ending in foreign domains including “.uk” and “.is”.

That puts Trump’s overall burn rate – the amount of campaign money spent divided by money raised – at 98 percent, the highest of the remaining presidential hopefuls. “The letter left me speechless”, email recipient Katrín Jakobsdóttir, who heads Iceland’s Left Green party, told an Icelandic magazine.

Mnuchin said that they plan on making daily fundraising emails after the overwhelming response the campaign received from the first email.

They contend that the FEC should “impose appreciate sanctions” (ie fines) on the Trump campaign and ensure that it avoids future violations. The billionaire running for president wants to convince millions of Americans to give him money. The Trump campaign has declined NBC’s requests to share the legal paperwork required to convert the loan, despite Trump’s insistence that he has “honored” his own “pledge”. “The FEC needs to investigate how many of these illegal solicitations were sent, to whom they were sent, whether any illegal foreign contributions have been received and, if so, whether the contributions have been returned”. Such events are among the best times to raise money, according to campaign veterans.

Trump is still adjusting to a more traditional fundraising structure after spending the primary relying heavily on his own money and on earned television media through countless interviews – as opposed to pricey paid TV ads that lesser-known candidates are often forced to purchase.