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Photograph by Martin Schoeller by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 20, 2015 7:28 PM UTC _Donald Trump was interviewed by TIME Editor Nancy Gibbs, Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer, and political correspondent Zeke Miller on Aug. 18._ **Behind the Scenes with Donald Trump** **Donald Trump on Immigration** **Donald Trump on Jeb Bush** **Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton** **Donald Trump on Bill Clinton** **Donald Trump on Rand Paul, Rick Perry and Lindsey Graham** **Donald Trump on Tax Reform** **Donald Trump on Super PACs** [_Read TIME’s interview with Donald Trump_](http://time.com/trump) ## Transcript Jeb Bush puts his friend in charge of his pack. And they don't talk. I guarantee you they talk all the time. And he's got $ 114 million sitting there that he's going to try and build up his image which is not easy to do. And he's going to work hard as is Hillary Clinton. They all have their friends running the packs. They're all breaking the law in my opinion. Because if you tell me that Jeb and the various other people that have set up PACs. And I'm not even talking about Jeb. He's not even second in the polls for the most part. We have people that are far ahead of Jeb. But the people that set up PACs are all talking. They put their best friends in there. They put people that are lawyers. They put All sort of people in there that are friendly to him. 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