Presidential campaigns require massive resources. Donald Trump is a man who owns many things. Hotels, casinos, golf courses, apartment buildings, restaurants, a bottled water company, a fleet of private aircraft—you name it, he's got it, and his campaign is using it. But that doesn't mean Trump brand businesses are giving the campaign a discount. Actually, the opposite seems to be true.

When you look through the disbursements the Trump campaign has disclosed to the Federal Election Commission, it's pretty clear that Trump is paying himself a lot of cash. This is very unusual for a presidential campaign, and also kind of a legal gray area. But it's not totally unprecedented for a candidate to make use of businesses they're affiliated with. Hillary Clinton's campaign uses (and pays) staff from the Clinton Executive Services Corporation, which employs Bill Clinton's post-presidency staff, who are paid directly by the Clintons. Clinton's campaign paid the corporation $72,000 in July, $111,000 in August, $70,000 in September, and $72,000 in October. According to Clinton campaign spokesperson Josh Schwerin, those are in-kind donations from Clinton herself, which means that no campaign money actually changed hands; rather these were goods and services worth that amount donated from the corporation to the campaign.

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The Trump campaign could not be reached for comment for this article. Looking at the FEC data from July to October, its clear that Trump's self-payments fall outside the norm. We're not talking about a Trump Tower taco bowl here and there. Trump uses campaign funds (which is to say, supporter donations) to do stuff like fly around in a Tag Air Boeing 757 with gold-plated seat belts. Trump is Tag Air's CEO, and the campaign racks up a travel bill between $300,000 and $2 million per month. The campaign also spends thousands of dollars reimbursing Trump family members, over $180,000 a month on (unusually high) rent in Trump Tower and Trump Plaza. The Clinton camp, by contrast, says the campaign pays Bill and Chelsea Clinton nothing.

Included in the "Food and Drink" category of payments is $1600 to Trump's private bottled water company, Trump Ice. He appears to have a standing order, paying $428 in both July and August, but then nothing in September. Filings show that he then paid for a double order of Trump Ice in October. The final haul toward Election Day is apparently thirsty work.