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Nice try.. He self funded hid primary campaign just as he said he would.. The general is a whole other situation..
That's what we're talking about here - the Donald Trump self-financing his bid for the presidency through the GOP 2016 primaries, not the general election. To that, he did say he would self-finance at least through the primaries and if he had to through the general election as well. Of course, when he announced that he'd be running for the presidency he made no distinction between self-funding only through the primaries versus self-funding his entire campaign run.
So, if we are to take him strictly at his word when he first announced...
"I don't need anybody's money," he said as he [Donald Trump] announced his candidacy in June. "I'm using my own money. I'm not using the lobbyists. I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich."
He didn't say initially that he'd self-finance his campaign only through the primaries. He only began to back away from self-financing a few months later.
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