Donald Trump’s big fundraising event in doubt
President Joe Biden recently held a joint fundraiser with former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and raised a historically large amount of money for Biden’s 2024 campaign. Donald Trump, who has been struggling financially both on and off the campaign trail, now claims that his fundraiser earlier tonight blew away Biden’s record.
As usual, most of the media is parroting Trump’s fundraising claim without challenging it. But as our friend Ben Meiselas points out, Trump claims he raised some HUGE amount of money with NO PROOF. His team uses words like ‘pledged’ and ‘commitments'” but there’s no evidence to support Trump’s claim. Given that Trump is usually exaggerating or lying when he speaks, the media has an objective duty not to take him at his word.
It’s also notable that most of the money Trump does manage to raise on the campaign trail appears to be going to pay Trump’s mounting legal bills. There’s little evidence that the Trump 2024 “campaign” is actually spending any money on campaigning. Trump now mostly sits home, as his handlers try to keep him from going out in public and saying senile things.
