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Trump-Endorsed 26-Year-Old is Financing His Campaign for Congress With His Trust Fund
Well, isn’t this rich. (That’s a pun, you just don’t know it yet).
Trump loves to rail against the elites. He likes to tell his supporters that the elites are against them, and has even gone so far as to say that his supporters are the true elites. Mind you, Trump is a billionaire. He’s not as rich as he says he is, but he’s worth a couple billion and yes, that makes him an elite.
But watch any of Trump’s rallies or read his fundraising pitches…they are always railing against the elites.
Enter Bo Hines.
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Bo Hines is running for Congress in North Carolina, a Republican of course, and it was recently revealed that the majority of his campaign money appears to have come from his own trust fund. Must be nice.
As a young candidate with barely any political experience, Hines is self-funding the majority of his campaign. According to the Federal Election Commission, he has loaned just over $775,000 of his own money to the campaign, or about 58% of his entire campaign war chest.
According to Axios, in his financial disclosure Hines lists having no job, no bank account, no other earned income or compensation, and zero loans or liabilities. Again, must be nice.
A new personal financial disclosure filing from NC House candidate Bo Hines indicates all of the $775k he's loaned his own campaign came from trust fund withdrawals pic.twitter.com/neJpHEdcFg
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 26, 2022
The only asset he reported owning was his share of the “Hines Children’s Trust.” The filing reveals that Hines withdrew up to $1 million from the trust in 2022 and up to $100,000 in 2021.
Imagine being 26 and not having a job. Hines, a former college football player-turned-law school graduate, boasts on his campaign website that he’s “always been a hard worker” and a “fighter through and through.”
Hines is running for Congress in North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District with Trump’s endorsement. After winning the Republican primary in mid-May, he’ll face off against Democrat Wiley Nickel in the general election come November.
The race has the potential to be a close one, as Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics rates the race as a “toss-up.”
If elected, Hines, 26, would become the nation’s youngest member of Congress after Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his primary election in May (and thank the LORD for that).
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