The funds described in the 92-page report do not easily amount to Trump's self-alleged net worth of $10bn – or "TEN BILLION DOLLARS", as his campaign claimed in a pre-emptive statement released last week.
Mrs. Clinton's campaign manager, Howard Wolfson, issued what he called a "pre-emptive statement" in the form of a news release on Mr. Heston's $1,000 contribution in December to the Giuliani campaign.
Just hours before Trump's speech on Tuesday, Ronal Serpas, the former New Orleans police chief and chairman of Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, issued a pre-emptive statement urging the Republican candidate to drop unfounded claims of a surge in crime.
They should have issued a pre-emptive statement that sought to clarify things.
Earlier this month, before Sanders was to give a speech on financial policy, Clinton's chief financial officer issued a pre-emptive statement arguing that Sanders was being soft on Wall Street by taking "a hands-off approach" to regulating shadow banking, a broad term for various types of financial activities that aren't regulated as strictly as conventional lending.
At the same time they seem to be making pre-emptive statements about their centrality to the culture.
Marcus Gearey has emailed in, Carry On-style, to read a little innuendo into the ITV commentary: "Was James Allen's risque nozzle comment 20 minutes ago his Russell Brand pre-emptive resignation statement, in an "I know the BBC aren't going to hire me so I can say something about a nozzle not going into a slot being one of the more pressing problems without fear of retribution" sort of way?
"The U.S. has already listed the D.P.R.K. as part of an 'axis of evil' and a target of pre-emptive nuclear attack," today's statement read.
In Spokane, Wash., the Police Department was so concerned about indiscriminate rants against Muslims on talk radio that, as a pre-emptive measure, it issued a statement denouncing such sentiments as "hateful and potentially injurious to innocent Spokane-area residents".
The leader of the Ulster Unionists, David Trimble, dismissed the I.R.A. statement as a "pre-emptive strike designed to try to shift pressure and blame on to others".
"When we became aware, in December 2011, that unilateral U.S. sanctions were to be applied against a number of Iranian banks," the statement said, "we took pre-emptive action to end our business relationships with Iranian banks licensed in the U.A.E".
