‘Sure I Would Spend It’: Trump on Spending All His Liquid Assets on 2016 Run

‘Nobody knows the system better than I do’

HANNITY: "You were stunningly honest when you said, I give Hillary money. I know she'll take my call. Or Nancy Pelosi, I give her money, I'll take my call."

TRUMP: “As a businessman.”

HANNITY: “So when the Saudis give her money and all these other countries gave money, were they buying access to her?”

TRUMP: “Absolutely. There's no question about it. They were buying access.”

HANNITY: “So our system's really corrupt.”

TRUMP: “It's a bad thing. And I say that all the time. I say, Hey, nobody knows the system better than I do because I was on the other side of the system at the highest level. And people would come up, senators, speakers -- I had people come up to my office, the biggest people in the world, and they'd say money -- now, let me -- let me put it differently.  And I've discussed this with you before. I say absolutely. I'm a businessman. I'm a Republican, I'm a conservative, but I'm a businessman. Let's say I say, No, I'm not going to give you anything. Congratulations. You're doing a wonderful job. The answer is no. Now, two years later, I go up to see them in Washington and I need an approval for something. They're not going to give me the approval. And let me tell you something. That's a corrupt system. That's a bad system. When that happens, that's a bad system. When Jeb Bush raises $114 million, which he has, when Hillary raises $60 million, which she has -- I know the people that gave them the money. These are not the nicest people in the world.”

HANNITY: “This system is at its root corrupt.”

TRUMP: “Well, Jeb Bush is totally controlled by the people that gave him that money. And the nice part about me, I don't want anybody's money.  I don't want any money.”

HANNITY: “You have $345 million in liquid assets. Are you prepared to spend that much money or more?”

TRUMP: “Sure. Well, you saw my income. My income's $400 million a year.”

HANNITY: “But are you prepared to spend it?”

TRUMP: “Sure, I would spend it, if I'm doing well.”

HANNITY: “Yes.”

TRUMP: “If I was in a position, like, let's say Senator -- I mean, look, I don't want to use names because I don't want to embarrass anybody, but there are two guys. You know what's interesting? Lindsey Graham hit me harder than anybody. He's got zero.  Perry hit me harder than anybody. Those were the two. And Perry was at 4 or 5, and he went down to 2 and went down to nothing. And now I guess he's out of the campaign. I don't want -- I think he's a nice guy, actually. I think he's just -- but what was interesting is the two people that hit me really hard -- I mean, Perry went to Washington to make a speech about me. It wasn't nice, OK? I mean, it wasn't a nice speech. And he went from 4 or 5 down to 2, and didn't even make the debate stage.”

HANNITY: “Didn't help him.”

TRUMP: “Lindsey Graham was at 2, and he went to nothing. So I'm really very honored by that.”

 

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