“He doesn’t want their cash,” Trump Jr. mentioned on Thursday on the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) when requested about his father’s enchantment to the grassroots vs. the company pursuits.
Different politicians, he mentioned, are beholden to donors “if they need that cash to proceed.”
However he’s since raised a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, together with half a billion since he misplaced the 2020 election, in keeping with OpenSecrets.
Whereas Trump Jr. could have been referring particularly to big-money donors and company pursuits, the ex-president has had loads of these on his facet in addition to grassroots contributors.
Twitter critics chimed in: