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[benji]

I love that Trump's exploiting the campaign finance system primarily to rip off his own supporters. Nobody's seriously ever done this before, especially not at this scale, because it'd be so self-defeating in any other instance. If you don't spend the money on your campaign the party expects you to give them the money to send to other candidates. Trump has none of these concerns, so he can literally just take the money and filter it back to himself as a vendor because he desperately needs the money. 

I'm not joking about this being something nobody's done, the previous campaign finance scandals involved illegal donations or similar crimes. Trump is just taking the money legally because his supporters are idiots. The back half is probably no more illegal than anything else the parties do, but again, Trump is probably sending almost all of it to his own wallet while traditionally the parties would want and need to spread the money around.

It's one of those things where the parties would never want to change this, and nobody could have standing to sue the candidate, but if you build up your own cult you can get away with it. Obama probably could have done it but again he wanted to help his party and boost his power, Trump literally only cares about getting the money.

It's also funny that he's not doing a presidential library because this was the traditional manner in which presidents were given money from supporters for themselves. It's doubly so because Trump loves nothing more than a worthless construction project that nobody wants and he can spend years talking about without actually working on.