Fat hurts wrote:
Mostly, Trump LOANED money to his campaign. The loans were paid back by his contributors. Also, Trump overcharged his campaign for office space and events at Trump properties. Much of his "self-financing" was really "self-dealing". We will probably never know if he sacrificed a single penny of his own cash. At one point, Trump even bragged that he would be the first ever to profit from running for president. Maybe he did.
1. My vague recollection was he claimed his primary run was self-financed. As posted many places, this is not true.
2. Trump did make money running for President. Yuuuge amounts of money.
According to the report, the money has gone toward paying his office’s rent in his own building ($1.3 million), paying for food and facilities at his own properties ($544,000), and even his own corporate staffers ($333,000) who perform campaign-related functions, such as his personal head of security. According to Politico, F.E.C. filings also revealed a $1,300 expense for his bottled-water company, Trump Ice; $432,000 for catering, facilities, and putting up the campaign at his resort Mar-a-Lago; and $6 million for the use of Trump’s plane, the largest expense in their filings.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/donald-trump-campaign-donations-report