Donald Trump supposedly has a lot of money. But you’d think even someone with a chipmunk for an accountant would be able to keep track of it better than this.
In early July, the Trump campaign said in a press release that Trump had given $55 million to his campaign. Two weeks later, it reported to the FEC that he'd given $50 million. …
The next month, Trump stepped onto a stage at a rally in Ashburn, Virginia, and proclaimed that his giving now stood at "over $60 million." The next day, a press release from the campaign put the figure a little lower, at "in excess of $56 million" through the end of July. Eighteen days later, the number came down again in a report to the FEC: $52 million.
But it’s not just campaign spending that’s causing consternation at the FEC. There are much larger numbers in question.
… the Trump family rakes in untold millions of dollars from the Trump Organization every year. … None of Trump’s overseas contractual business relationships examined by Newsweek were revealed in his campaign’s financial filings with the Federal Election Commission, nor was the amount paid to him by his foreign partners.
What is almost certainly Trump’s largest source of income is not even mentioned in his FEC filings. Overseas accounts, some of them from state sources, that are feeding the coffers Donald Trump uses to pay those ever-shifting numbers to his own campaign.
Shouldn’t that be an issue?