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Diet guru Jenny Craig is co-hosting a Trump fundraiser

July 5, 2016 at 11:26 a.m. EDT
Donald Trump, making dieting great again? (Matthew Staver/Bloomberg News)

Jenny Craig might be into whittling waistlines — but she also wants to pad the coffers of Donald Trump’s campaign.

The weight-loss guru is among the hosts throwing a July 13 fundraising dinner and reception for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee near San Diego, the L.A. Times reports. No word on whether the menu will include low-cal options.

Also throwing the party (tickets are a minimum of $25,000) are developer Doug Manchester, energy investor Doug Kimmelman, outsourcing innovator Darwin Deason, and Madeleine Pickens, the ex-wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, per the Times.

Trump needs the help: He ended June with only $1.3 million in the bank compared with presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s $42 million.