Money Matters
Trump's Cash-Starved Campaign Seeks Top Donors in New York
One day after his campaign released dismal fundraising numbers for the month of May, Trump held a fundraiser at New York's Le Cirque restaurant.
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Donald Trump courted some of Wall Street's biggest donors on Tuesday to kick-start a fundraising effort that is lagging far behind Hillary Clinton's.
Among the major donors spotted heading into the dinner, at Manhattan's Le Cirque restaurant, was the Long Island hedge-fund manager Robert Mercer. Mercer is the biggest spender so far in the 2016 election cycle and hasn't publicly disclosed whether he would support Trump's presidential bid. Previously, he put $13.5 million behind Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Trump's closest rival for the Republican nomination before he dropped out.