What’s Trump Spending on His Campaign? Depends Who You Ask
He’s been giving the public a higher number than his reports to the FEC show.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks on Sept. 12, 2016, in Baltimore.
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Donald Trump rarely passes up a chance to boast about the tens of millions of dollars of his own money he's spent running for president.
So you might think it would be easy to find out exactly what he's given. But the Republican, his campaign's press office, and his official reports to federal regulators all give conflicting accounts of his generosity. The numbers sometimes differ by $4 million or more.