Pro-Trump super PAC secures $32 million in donor commitments

A new super PAC backing Donald Trump has drawn in $32 million in financial commitments, Tom Barrack, a wealthy real estate investor and close friend to Donald Trump, told CNN in an interview Thursday.

The PAC, Rebuilding America Now, filed documents with the Federal Election Commission earlier this week after it locked down four individual donors who promised a total of $32 million. According to Barrack, those donors include people who have never previously forked over large amounts to the Republican party.

Barrack seemed to acknowledge that the use of super PACs was a "ridiculous system," but added that "whether Donald becomes president or not, this dialogue, this debate that we need to fund and fuel because it's the way our stupid system works."

"The money is raised," he told CNN. "The way it's allocated. The way the electoral process -- when people say it's corrupt, we all know that it's corrupt. But nobody knows how to change it and it's the best system we have at the time."

A host of super PACs have emerged to back Trump's presidential campaign, but most have drawn just small-money amounts.

One of the most powerful super PACs supporting Trump so far, the Great America PAC, raised just $2 million by mid-May.

Barrack hosted Trump's first joint fundraiser with the Republican party last month at his California home, where a ticket cost at least $25,000.