'What a nightmare': Morning Joe stunned by Trump's 'beyond cash-strapped' financial woes
March 22, 2024
Reflecting on a decision by the now Donald Trump-controlled Republican National Committee to give the former president first shot at donations to pay his legal bills, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called it a "nightmare" on multiple fronts for the GOP and Trump himself.
The "Morning Joe" co-host pounced on Trump's massive debts, his inability to come up with nearly half a billion in cash he needs to appeal his financial fraud penalty and his declining small donor base on Friday morning.
"What a nightmare," he began. "I'm dead serious here. What a nightmare it has to be, being a part of Donald Trump's campaign, being grossly underfunded and knowing that Trump has put his family in charge of the RNC for being a Republican candidate down ballot."
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"I've been one of those before," the former Republican lawmaker recalled. "You're just praying that the RNC can help you out and, knowing all of that money is going for a guy who is just completely beyond cash-strapped, I mean, for legitimate reasons. There are a lot of billionaires that wouldn't have $500 million lying around. But they really are, he has all along, but they're really are leveraging his campaign for his personal use."
He later added, "I always tell my kids, if things look like they're too good to be true, they're too good to be true. If you're looking at something that just doesn't make sense, you know, there's a reason. And here, we're looking at something that makes no sense. This guy is getting crazier by the day, he's got no money."
"The campaign is just broke," he added, "People don't want to give money. He's down 200,000 contributors to where he was this time in the cycle four years ago. [President Joe] Biden raised $71 million. People are begging, literally begging, any idiot running a podcast, they're begging. they're calling contributors and saying, 'How can I help? I want to write checks for Joe Biden.'"
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