Explaining the Trump Campaign's Missing Millions

On Monday, I wrote about questions surrounding the Trump campaign’s finances. Specifically, a Huffington Post report was circulating noting that the topline FEC numbers suggested that the Trump campaign burned through $63 million last month. I contacted the Trump campaign, which offered no comment on that spending figure.

So I asked Liam Donovan, a campaign vet who’s become a must follow on Twitter for his nuts and bolts analysis of the Trump campaign’s finances, for his take on Trump’s missing money. Donovan delivered a detailed response, suggesting that for all of the Trump campaign’s issues with finances, the explanation for what’s going on here may be benign: