RNC spokesman Sean Spicer pushed back against reports about Donald Trump's fundraising. | AP Photo RNC blasts ‘false narrative’ on Trump finances

The Republican National Committee is pushing back against financial reports that show Donald Trump significantly trailing Hillary Clinton, saying they don’t signal a struggling campaign.

On Monday, financial reports showed Trump’s campaign started the month of June with $1.3 million in cash compared to Clinton’s $42.5 million. However, RNC spokesman Sean Spicer said the funds do not account for the fact that Trump has largely funded his own campaign.


“That’s a false narrative,” Spicer said Tuesday on CNN . “You're looking at the Trump campaign through the prism of the Hillary Clinton campaign. Donald Trump financed his campaign all the way to this point by adding in more of his own personal money. So it's false to say that he has $1.3 million. If he wanted to get that number up in two seconds, he just strokes a check and it's up.”

Spicer added that the campaign has shifted to a “fundraising mechanism” for the general election.

“If you look at the months going forward whether it's the low dollar activity that we're seeing in the mail and the phones or the people that really want to meet him at some of the in-person fund-raisers, there's tremendous intensity,” he said. “As much as I appreciate everyone's concern over our finances, when you look at it in totality year-over-year, we're doing really, really well.”

Trump’s meager financial report came just as the campaign was dealing with the fallout of firing campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. He was let go Monday morning, just a month out from the Republican National Convention.