Trump's campaign is 34 million dollars in debt??
That $34mm is presumably mostly money that the Trump campaign owes to Donald J. Trump because he has loaned the campaign money. He is entitled to be paid back eventually.
That is the case. And that is why I used the term 'self-financing' instead of 'self-funding' He has donated some money to his campaign but the vast majority of it is in the form of loans. I suspect he expects that money to eventually be paid back, it may take years of selling 'Make America Great' merchandise, but he has gone out of his way to not truly 'self-fund'
Unfortunately, I suspect that he will get the money back very quickly. As part of a deal with the GOP, for Trump to back off and support the nominee, you can bet that Trump will obligate the Republican party to hold fundraisers to repay him back.
In other words, he would have run a campaign to free, while collecting IOUs and having fun. Plus, his loan may have been in secured assets and he will get repaid in cash. Not a bad gig, if you can get it.
