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Trump's Campaign Con Collapses. Sad!

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His campaign, like his coiffure, is a few gilded threads spun together to give the impression of substance when there is plainly nothing underneath.

If you want to find the truth in politics, follow the money. And the Trump campaign's latest Federal Election Commission filing shows why the self-proclaimed billionaire and conservative populist deserves to be known as Con Man Donald. 

The celebrity demagogue who delights in telling crowds that he is "very, very rich" is presiding over a Ponzi?scheme?like presidential campaign that — even as it has paid his own businesses millions of dollars — has just $1.3 million cash in hand. 

If this were a business, it would be going bankrupt. Instead it's a presidential campaign whose moral bankruptcy is on the verge of actual bankruptcy. 

To put the Donald's dire straits in perspective, consider that Hillary Clinton's campaign now has over $42 million cash on hand, over 600 staffers and a 100% advantage in television ad buys. To put it in terms Con Man Donald might understand: Size matters.

All the spin of a celebrity demagogue can't eclipse the fact that the thicket of 22 businesses that he has paid through his campaign are evidence of a Potemkin marketing empire that exists to fund his lifestyle while avoiding as many taxes as possible in the process. 

Old habits die hard and based on the filing and its payments to Trump Ice and other afterthought entities, my guess is that when and if Con Man Donald ever releases his taxes we'll see the true meaning of what his fellow 1980s real estate celebutante, Leona Helmsley, used to say: "Only the little people pay taxes."

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