Cash-strapped Trump campaign scrambling to avoid 'dire financial situation': CNN reporter

CNN reporter Alayna Treene said on Monday that former President Donald Trump's campaign is looking at ways to aggressively cut expenses to avoid facing a major cash crunch later this year.

While appearing on CNN, Treene brought word that the Trump campaign has been cracking down on staffers taking more expensive Uber rides and has also made sure that campaign offices meet the bare minimum of functionality.

"Anyone that's ever worked on a campaign knows that at the headquarters, the furniture should be functional and that's it," one Trump official said, as quoted by Treene. "Mismatched and functional is the décor of the Trump campaign offices. We don't have mahogany desks, and if we do, they are 200 years old and they're falling apart."

Additionally, Trump's handlers have been trying to pinch pennies by holding his rallies in cheaper venues than the ones he held in both 2016 and 2020.

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Treene then went on to explain why the Trump campaign is working so hard to keep expenses to a minimum.

A lot of Donald Trump's top people are very concerned of having a repeat of what happened in the 2020 campaign, when Trump was the incumbent and they were supposed to have this big money operation that was supposed to be one of the assets to his campaign," she explained. "And then, over the summer and into the fall, they really faced a cash crunch. They burned through hundreds of millions of dollars in just a matter of months, and that left them in a dire financial situation in the leadup to the election."

In fact, Treene reports that things have gotten so dire that "Donald Trump himself has begun to pay for his own legal bills," which is something he's typically been loathe to do.

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