Trump reports $35.8 million raised in July

Donald Trump's campaign raised $35.8 million from small-dollar donors in July, the Republican nominee announced Monday, hours after the monthly Federal Elections Commission deadline.

"We have raised with the small donor $35.8 million, think of that, I believe it’s 517,000 donors. Think of that. That’s in a month. So we raised $35.8 million, even a little more than that," Trump said at an event in Columbus, Ohio.


Trump added that the average donation was $69 per person, noting that contributions to joint fundraising accounts are still being "tabulated."

“How incredible is that, right? And it’s not even to me, the money. … to me, it’s the concept," Trump said. "In all fairness, Bernie Sanders was doing that, you know? Because it was a movement, now it was a movement on the other side of the plate."

The comments came after Trump referenced a recent Wall Street Journal report that Hillary Clinton has received $48.5 million from hedge-fund employees, while Trump has received a comparatively paltry $19,000.

"Now I don't know how it got in there," Trump said, later referring to Clinton as "crooked as a $3 bill."

"I don’t even want it. I think I’ll send it back," Trump added.