Blunt force: Don Trump Jr. raises nearly $2M in 37 hours in Texas for dad

[TexasTowelie]

Don Trump Jr. swept through Texas last week, spending 37 hours speed-dating potential heavy-hitter business donors in Dallas and Houston.

It was the first time the presidential candidate's 38-year-old namesake had ever done any fundraising on his own.

Donald Trump's first apprentice is no longer an understudy — in business or politics.

Don and siblings Ivanka, 34, and Eric, 32, are commanding their father's multibillion-dollar real estate empire while Trump campaigns for president.

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[FarPoint]

1. Was this speedy money received or..

Just pledge money? There is a difference....

[C_U_L8R]

2. That's pocket change in well-heeled Texas circles.

Are they trumpeting that as a big success?

[randr]

4. They wrote checks to get him out of town.

[auntpurl]

5. I thought the same thing.

This is small beer, as they say in the UK. Bit sad really, right after their convention. This is when he should be able to raise a ton of money.

[grubbs]

3. Sounds like A bAre handful of donors to me.

But at least he got enough money to take care of the bedbug infestation

[sarae]

6. Was it via Russia?

[RandySF]

7. Why I feel like that foray is going to bite them in the ass?

[COLGATE4]

8. Well, maybe he can be the Rethug's candidate

in 2024.

[ffr]

9. Which reminds me, I need to mail HRC a donation of my own.

There's always good in stories like this. Just needed a reminder.

[procon]

10. Peanuts.

The production cost to make a glitzy, 30-second, national political ad for a potential president can easily exceed a cool million, more if some famous actor is used. Then there's the cost of actually get the ad played in major media markets that can run several million for big event like a championship game, to around $400K for a spot during a top show in prime time.

So Junior worked real hard to buy his pops a couple of 30 second ads.

[meow2u3]

11. What's the exchange rate in rubles?

That would be how much was really raised.

[RapSoDee]

14. 132,099,000.00 Russian Rubles. It sounds like more, but

but it's still the same lame payola.

[RonniePudding]

12. Chump change

[RonniePudding]

13. The fawning story made me

The writer was obviously over the moon.