From 'really rich' to begging: Inside Trump's U-turn on one of his first campaign lies

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From 'really rich' to begging: Inside Trump's U-turn on one of his first campaign lies

During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump talked a big game about how he was a “really rich” man who would be self-funding his first presidential run.“I don’t need anybody’s money,” Trump said in his June 6, 2015 campaign announcement speech and again in an August 2015 interview in Iowa.“I’m not using the lobbyists,” Trump continued in his first announcement speech.“I really won’t be asking for money for myself, I’ll be asking money for the party,”…