Trump says his 2016 campaign could be his ‘single greatest waste of time, of energy and money’

[DonViejo]

Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Donald Trump cast the US presidential race in stark personal terms Wednesday, telling voters that if he loses against Hillary Clinton it will be the “single greatest waste” of his time and money.

The provocative billionaire, in a disjointed speech in Ocala, Florida with just 27 days before the election, reminded supporters that he will have spent some $100 million of his own fortune on his campaign. “If I don’t win on November 8th, I will consider this the single greatest waste of time, of energy and money,” the Republican nominee told the crowd.

“We’ll not be able to reduce your taxes, or save your Second Amendment and appoint Supreme Court justices, and take care of your vets and fix up your very depleted” military, he said.

Trump trails his Democratic opponent Clinton in national polls, and his campaign is limping after last week’s release of a 2005 tape in which he is caught bragging about groping women.

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[underpants]

1. We owe it to him?

[Moonwalk]

21. HAHAHA! Trump is blaming his supporters now!

Yes. His supporters OWE him this win. He bought and paid for it, and they need to show up and make sure he does win or it will all go to waste.

I wonder, after he loses, if he'll use the rolls of supporters to demand they pay him back, like a dad who spent all this money on a vacation trip for the kids and they didn't show. It'd be SO like him wouldn't it? "I did this for you, you didn't hold up your end, so you owe me $100 million!"

[RKP5637]

2. Trump, will see it as a bad investment and try to write it off on his taxes. n/t

[maxsolomon]

3. Shorter: "It's all about me"

and it will turn out he MADE money.

[TeamPooka]

6. Me me me me me me me me me

[Moonwalk]

22. His hotels is losing money hand over fist. But maybe he made money in hats?

[Scarsdale]

48. Doubt

I doubt that he spent all that money, since he does not have all that much! He inflated prices at tRump Tower, his estate in Florida, his tRump plane. He MADE money. I want to see the entire tRump empire collapse right after this election. Vladimir will be madder than a wet hen when he discovers tRump can not repay him, nor can he hand over the USA to Vlad. Poor widdle Donnie. He will find it difficult to harass women once he is no longer a "star".

[3catwoman3]

4. A waste of time and money.

Well, I guess there is one thing Trump and I agree on.

[metroins]

5. That would make him a loser

And to be honest, Hillary hasn't really run THAT good of a campaign. Him losing is completely his fault.

I'm excited for Hillary to win, I think she is an intelligent person who thinks through her actions. Her campaign has lacked charisma but she hasn't made the mistakes Trump has.

He will be a loser, the person who lost in the biggest contest of his life.

[Moonwalk]

23. Hilary has run a very good campagin! DNC was stellar! And...

...the campagin has been VERY smart in how it rolled itself out. Strong surrogate speakers to begin, then Hillary, ads alternating between taking down Trump, building her up. Use of internet, and resources into swing states. Maybe not brilliant, but DARN good!

And if Trump loses, he won't admit to being a loser. Every time he loses anything, it's someone else's fault.

[wordpix]

58. the Biggest Loser, in fact

[packman]

7. BREAKING NEWS - Trump sues U.S.

for lost time and money . Do you doubt it?

[SammyWinstonJack]

47. Don't doubt it at all.

[Kablooie]

8. Ah yes. His BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! -- This has been a big waste of time and money.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. A fool and his money are soon parted

Here's to you, Donnie!

[rurallib]

10. LMAO

and he's getting beat by a gurl, too!

[jcgoldie]

11. Ah well

Everything can't be as lucrative as running casinos.... oh wait

[world wide wally]

13. What about wasting OUR time, asshole?

You are the most hated man in America and TV has plastered you all over for the past year just to force us to listen to your constant bullshit and lies and hear about YOU talk about YOURSELF endlessly. You have scared the shit out of immigrant children in schools from coast to coast as well as made us look like assholes to the rest of the world for letting you get as far as you did.
Personally, I resent it.

[SunSeeker]

15. +1

[smirkymonkey]

34. This!

[FrodosPet]

43. This. +1.

The bigots are so blinded by fear and ignorance, they refuse to realize that he is hurting them more than anyone else.

He is destroying America's reputation around the world. He will destroy the international trade we rely on. He will destroy the channels of trust and communication that we need for diplomacy and the fight against terrorism.

[The Wielding Truth]

63. You are so right on this. He has been a terrible waste of time and bad example to our children.

[ProfessorGAC]

67. The Very First Thing i Thought, Wally

He wasted his money, but he wasted all of our time.

[SunSeeker]

14. Let me call you a Whaaaambulance Donald...

[Scarsdale]

49. Wrong

The ambulance should have TRUMP emblazened on it, like all his other ventures.

[turbinetree]

16. So dumpster, the political race was for personel gain

Do you not fully realize, that there is going to be a pending trial against you by someone that has accused of rape, fraud, pay for play, and your worried about the loss of a personal gain from this race.

[TeamPooka]

17. Compared to the watse that is his whole life his the campaign is the best he can do. sad nt

[cstanleytech]

20. Ya I was thinking compared to his life this campaign has not been a waste. nt

[Wolf Frankula]

18. You, tRump are a waste of skin

Your breathing wastes oxygen. Your eating wastes food.

Wolf

[MicaelS]

19. We used our 2nd Amendment Solution

And put guns to his head forcing him to run, and spend all that money.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. "he will have spent some $100 million of his own fortune"

HUGE lie. I expect that much of that "spending" came out of his own bogus "Trump Foundation" and the funds raised from suckers who were unknowingly forced into monthly donations with no way to exit, and the rest from his overcharging event organizers for use of his hotels and other facilities.

[Mc Mike]

55. Plus all the scams where he and his family take money OUT of the campaign.

Charging the campaign to rent space from his properties, then jacking up the rent, quadrupling it. Paying people connected to his foundations with sweetheart contracts. Using campaign funds to buy thousands of copies of his books. He LENT his campaign money, and never produced any written papers that he forgave the loans.

" About $2.7 million more was paid to at least seven companies Mr. Trump owns or to people who work for his real estate and branding empire, repaying them for services provided to his campaign. That total included more than $2 million for flights on his own planes and helicopter, a quarter of a million dollars to his Fifth Avenue office tower, and even $66,000 to Keith Schiller, his bodyguard and the head of security at the Trump Organization.
...
He spent about $2 million on hats, T-shirts and other merchandise, roughly half of it going to a Louisiana-based company, Ace Specialties, owned by a board member of Mr. Trump’s son’s charitable foundation. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/us/politics/donald-trumps-campaign-billed-as-self-funded-risks-little-of-his-fortune.html

That article came out 8 months ago, so doesn't describe the last 8 months of double dealing and fund siphoning scams he and his scummy family and business associates have since pulled.

[BumRushDaShow]

57. You did have this more recently

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/us/politics/trump-foundation-money.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-retooled-his-charity-to-spend-other-peoples-money/2016/09/10/da8cce64-75df-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html

And considering his previous record of purported donations, we can read the writing on the wall clearly.

[Mc Mike]

60. Good linked info, BR. Thanks.

What a nauseating, disgusting, lacking in all virtue, overstuffed with all wrong, thing he is.

[wordpix]

59. yes I'm thinking his $100M came from his fake foundation, too

David Farenthold will let us know

[Raven123]

25. No that would be

the time and money he will spend to sue the Times and defend himself against the flood of allegations.

[apnu]

26. Confirming my initial suspicion: This whole thing is ego masturbation for Trump. (nt)

[AllyCat]

27. The M$M would disagree with him.

[central scrutinizer]

28. I call bullshit

Produce the receipts

[forgotmylogin]

29. What about those people who wasted time and money on his bogus "University"?

Karma's a bitch, pussy-grabber.

[VMA131Marine]

30. Remember that Hitler ultimately blamed the German people for his defeat in WWII

He basically said they weren't good enough for him.

Sounds eerily familiar.

[okaawhatever]

31. Funny, we were thinking the same thing Donald. nt

[RussBLib]

32. sounds like Trump knows he will lose

Use to be "the Donald" could get anything he wanted.

Those days are over.

[Scarsdale]

36. Daddy

That was when his daddy was alive, replenishing his bank accounts, covering his failures.

[eggplant]

33. I thought his taxes showed he lost a billion dollars. Wouldn't that be bigger? n/t

[Scarsdale]

35. boo hoo

If his Russian creditors do not dispose of him, I see ANOTHER bankruptcy in his not too distant future. I do not believe he spent $100 million of his own money, he does not have that to squander.

[steve2470]

37. poor baby

[Helen Borg]

38. $100 M he did not have

[christx30]

39. When I first saw the headline, the first thing I thought was:

"Sounds absolutely wonderful."

But in my 40 years, I've never seen an election this messed up, and a campaign like Trump's just fold like this. My god... It's crumbling in front of him. Most of the time, there is a united front on both sides, with the issues being discussed. But this time? We have the Dems as a stainless steel line, and the repubs, looking like a loose glob of powdered sugar. Factions within them are sniping at each other right and left. Simi sane people like Ted Cruz are being called traitors. Even the candidate himself seems to be reading the writing on the wall. Trump may as well be running for mayor of Detroit (where he's polling at ~0%).

[Lil Missy]

41. Uh huh, yeah, and you wasted all OUR time why? n/t

[MowCowWhoHow III]

42. Not the first time he's said this

Donald Trump: 'If I Don't Win, I Wasted My Time'

3:30 onwards

[Retired George]

44. DUH!

[krispos42]

45. That's a feature, not a bug, Don.

It would be wonderfully just if he tried to declare bankruptcy from this misadventure, only to have it refused.

[BobTheSubgenius]

46. It's only fitting.

His "single greatest waste of time, of energy and money”
dovetails nicely with him being the biggest single waste of skin and perfectly good oxygen that we know of.

[MsMAC]

50. Well darn, let's make this happen!

I keep hoping he would move to Siberia (and take all his kids with him) if he loses!

[LiberalFighter]

51. Nobody forced him to run.

[no_hypocrisy]

52. Likely as Trump assumed that the RNC would pay him to run for president

but it really doesn't work that way.

[Maeve]

53. Lots of your donors feel the same way already. eom

[Sunlei]

54. yeah, "energy" the Republican needs to hump woman like a dog!

[Mc Mike]

56. I'm hoping for a 3 way repug brawl,

where loser li'l donnie, loser repug officials, and loser goper voters all scream "Loser!" and "traitor!" at each other.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

[mackdaddy]

61. How many thousands of small businesses will get screwed out of payment from his campaign?

My guess is that after he looses the election all those caters and sign printers, venues, hotels among others will never get paid for their services. I do feel sorry for these poor saps.

I also think that "The Donald" will be filing for his next bankruptcy in the next few months. And whatever the value of his "brand" was, I think the Trump will equal "turd" from here on out. This part could not happen to a nicer guy.

[lastlib]

62. Scheduled for Nov. 9th:

[IrishEyes]

64. So, if we don't vote for him.

Will he get mad at us and give us the silent treatment? I think that he should never speak to us again. That will show the american voters. This disgusting, pathetic, little man is the greatest waste of time, energy and money.

[lonestarnot]

65. Delightful. Stupid loser.

[Kennah]

66. C'mon Donnie. I'm sure there are bigger losses in your future. (n/t)