Allies of Mitt Romney are gathered in their annual mountain retreat and they have plenty to say about just how broke Donald “$10 Billion” Trump’s campaign is. The money quote, if you will, comes from Trump’s national finance chairman, Steve Mnuchin:
"You have to understand we literally just started this in the last four weeks," said Mnuchin, who didn't disclose the amount of money that the campaign has raised so far.
Haha! No, what we want to understand is why can’t Trump just pay for his campaign like he said he would. Nobody wants to hear Donald Trump pleading for a little understanding of his money problems. Maybe he should try selling his 24 karat gold bathroom fixtures. “Trump Gold,” right next to the steaks.
More quotes from the CNN article below.
Obvious bundlers haven't even been contacted. A small-dollar operation is nonexistent. And the fund-raising agreement with the Republican National Committee continues to wobble.
"The fund-raising intensity is missing -- totally," said John Rakolta Jr., a former national finance chair for Romney who said he is flabbergasted to not have received a single phone call from Trump's team. "Who is driving the bus?"
"You've got to have an army of people who are out there working for you, and I don't know that they do yet," said Zwick, recalling how Romney raised $100 million in this month four years ago. "I don't know how much Donald Trump wants to spend time raising money."
A joint fund-raising agreement was hatched last month to split proceeds between the RNC and the Trump campaign. And while the first joint fund-raisers have gone well, RNC chair Reince Priebus has phoned some associates expressing frustration that Trump wants to direct dollars to his own ambitious plans, according to a person who has spoken directly with Priebus, which includes quixotic bids to win deep blue states like California and New York.
Hushang Ansary, a Houston businessman named to the RNC's Presidential Trust team, said he had contributed to the fund but had not picked up the phone to call anyone in his network.
"I wasn't asked to," Ansary said in a phone interview. "I've hardly ever done fund-raising, but I've lent my name to fund-raising efforts from time to time."
Romney's network was assembled with people like Randy Boyd, an aide to the governor of Tennessee who was not a longtime bundler but fundraised out of loyalty to Romney.
"He is somebody I would aspire to be like," Boyd said of Romney and who isn't raising for Trump. "The idea of putting my name on anything is anathema to me."