Back when the clown-car crash which was the Republican debates were fully underway, Donald Trump attacked the rest of the Republican field for inviting their “donors” to the debates. He said that it showed how dependent they were, how unlike Donald Trump.
“You know who has the tickets to the television audience?” Trump said. “Donors, special interests, the people that are putting up the money. That's who it is. The RNC told us. We have all donors in the audience. And the reason they're not loving me—the reason they're not—excuse me. The reason they're not loving me is, I don't want their money.”
Trump has changed his tune on donors, and he’s also changed the rents he charges people working to make him president—just like an old-timey sharecropper. Famed Republican billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson has reportedly not officially spent money on The Donald’s campaign, but he’s got himself a nice seat int he Republican section of the debate.