Insider Sources Reportedly Dubbed Donald Trumpโ€™s 2024 Campaign A โ€œMess,โ€ Former Admin Official Admitted โ€œMoney Is A Real Issueโ€

A complete and utter disaster.


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Donald Trumpโ€™s desperate attempt at a 2024 presidential campaign is not off to a good start. At all.

Vanity Fairโ€™s Gabriel Sherman was able to get the inside scoop from several Republicans with close ties to the scandal-ridden, disgraced former president, and it seems some of the aides closest to Trump are finding it extremely difficult to drag the former guy out of his Mar-a-Lago โ€œbunkerโ€ to even get anything accomplished for the campaign and, using Trumpโ€™s own words, have dubbed the whole 2024 ordeal a โ€œmess.โ€

Sherman was quick to note in his report that thereโ€™s an air of disappointment and unhappiness in the air among Trumpโ€™s inner circle, after the former presidentโ€™s big 2024 campaign announcement, which took place on the heels of the GOPโ€™s catastrophic midterm elections, failed to even remotely take off and has instead shaped up to be a massive dud, even among some of Donaldโ€™s formerly most staunch supporters and donors.

One GOP strategist didnโ€™t mince their words when they told Sherman, โ€œThe early โ€™22 announcement was a historic flop. Talk about how not to create momentum.โ€

Multiple sources within Trumpworld have come to the consensus that the scandal-ridden former president is facing down two massive obstacles that are proving difficult to overcome, in an effort to turn this pathetic thing around โ€” Trumpโ€™s crappy attitudeโ€ฆ And money.

Sherman writes, โ€œI spoke with a half dozen Republicans close to Trump, and the consensus is that his campaign is a โ€˜mess,โ€™ to borrow a preferred Trump epithet. He is in a weird bunker and doesnโ€™t want to go anywhere. Even the inner circle is worried heโ€™s getting no traction at all.โ€

One Republican strategist echoed that sentiment when they added, โ€œLiterally nothing. Itโ€™s like itโ€™s not even happening.โ€

One of Trumpโ€™s own former administration officials admitted that the resounding lack of donations to Trumpโ€™s 2024 campaign is becoming a real problem, stating, โ€œMoney is a real issue.โ€

Sherman writes:

As a presidential candidate, Trump isnโ€™t allowed to tap into the $100 million war chest his various super PACs have amassed since he left the White House, meaning he either has to raise the money himself or spend his own. โ€˜A rally is expensive. They cost a half million dollars easily,โ€™ a veteran of Trumpโ€™s 2016 campaign told me. Trumpโ€™s 2024 campaign has yet to file a fundraising report with the Federal Election Commission, but two sources close to Trump told me the money spigot isnโ€™t flowing like it used to.โ€

He goes on to add that this may have a lot to do with Trumpโ€™s widely criticized and openly mocked attempt at a blatant cash grab through his highly-controversial digital trading cards after he spent a significant amount of time teasing that a โ€œmajor announcementโ€ was on the horizon.

โ€œEven if the financial situation improves, Trump allies worry he has already committed a series of baffling, self-destructive blunders. โ€˜Trump completely overexposed himself with all those stupid midterm endorsements,โ€™ another 2016 campaign veteran told me,โ€ Sherman writes.

You can read his full report with Vanity Fair here.

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Andrea Thompson
Andrea has written political opinion stories for over a decade with a passion for center-left policies. Andrea is no longer a writer at Political Tribune and her X account is here: https://x.com/theliberalmommy

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