Donald Trump PACs Reportedly Spent $50 Million In Donor Funds On Legal Fees Last Year | HuffPost Latest News
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Former President Donald Trump spent about $50 million of donor funds on legal bills and expenses last year, a staggering sum following his indictments in four separate cases, according to The New York Times.
Multiple Trump super PACs have been paying the expenses after securing an initial fire hose of donations after his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Trump pushed unfounded and false claims of voter fraud to stoke his supporters to donate after his defeat, efforts that have since become key to two of the indictments he's named in.
Save America, a Trump PAC that at one point had more than $100 million in the bank, nearly went broke last year amid the crushing legal expenses. The super PACs paid for attorneys for both the former president and for some of his aides who have been named in the indictments, including valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira. The pair were charged in the case involving Trump's removal of classified documents from the White House and his retention of the papers despite government attempts to retrieve them.
The bills are still biting at Trump's heels: The Times added that 10% of every dollar the former president raises from supporters is being directed to Save America, which mainly pays the legal fees.
The exact figures the political groups paid out to attorneys last year will be reported on Wednesday as part of legally required filings to the Federal Election Commission.
The massive figure is emblematic of Trump's legal woes as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination. Two of his trials are set to begin in March, which would leave him seesawing between the campaign trail and the courtroom, although the trials could soon both be delayed.
Trump's last remaining serious Republican rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, used the report Tuesday to take a shot at her presidential competitor.
Another reason Donald Trump won't debate me… His PAC spent 50 MILLION in campaign dollars on his legal fees. ⁰
He can't beat Joe Biden if he's spending all his time and money on court cases and chaos. https://t.co/1Xx7swjFru — Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) January 30, 2024
"Another reason Donald Trump won't debate me… His PAC spent 50 MILLION in campaign dollars on his legal fees," she wrote on social media. "He can't beat Joe Biden if he's spending all his time and money on court cases and chaos."
On a personal front, Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll last week for making defamatory statements about her. A civil fraud trial is also underway in New York over his business dealings, and a judge could decide how much both he and his company are required to pay. The state's attorney general has asked for a penalty approaching $370 million.
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Trump will be setting up a GoFundMe so his cult members can pay for the judgments.
suckers...
Being a sucker is a requirement for joining the Trump cult.
truest statement of the decade so far...
Doesn't "GoFundMe" and campaign donations mean the same thing to Trump? FEC will certainly look at this, DOJ will take years to act. The OFP (Orange Faced Pig) should be in jail now!
The FEC should look into it. The DOJ seems to move at glacial speed.
So this Superfund had $100M in the bank and now it's nearly bankrupt. Are people that fucking gullible to send him money for his legal fees? And what happened to all his own money? Is he really not a billionaire like he pretends to be?
He never likes to pay for lawyers, or much of anything for that matter. That's a big reason why he's been sued so often. I read an estimate that it was in the range of 3,500-4,000 times, many of them contractors he hired that he didn't pay.
A normal person wouldn't get away with that. Too bad we don't have debtor prisons any more
my first relative in the new world came from england in 1670 as an indentured servant due to debt.
That's a long way to be able to trace back. Do you have a detailed family tree? Any of your relatives caught up in the Salem witch hunts? Trump would think you have a connection.
only detailed on granny's side. anybody's guess on the other goobers from the ozarks and appalachians.
Hey! I'm a goober from the Appalachians. Western PA'ers can be pretty backward
we're probably related then...
like everybody else is...
How many billionaires are always 'campaigning' for cash?
he's never spent any of his own money...
....despite that, I wonder how much he actually has, it's certainly not billions
I remember the moron trying to use a past Forbes article or some other article as proof of his actual worth.
he's got 3 weeks to break out the checkbook...
maybe his kids will make a hostile takeover move on trumpco when daddy has to cough up half a billion...
... since no one else would ever hire them.
a coke fiend, an idiot, and a walking retirement plan for NYC plastic surgeons...
Brilliant!
... not any of them.
trumpturd, jr., poor eric (lol), Ivanka
"now I know why tigers eat their young" - rodney dangerfield
Trump is an expert at using OPM.
pretty soon he'll be spending his kids money. he could always sell his condo in trump tower to raise money. oh wait, it's not worth what he says it is...
and OPP
His donors better dig deep because Trump's legal fees are going to increase while his cash decreases due to his losses in court.
he's allegedly spent more in 2023 legal fees than his campaign brought in last year...
He had better hurry up and grift more money from his cultists because LAWYERS NEED TO BE PAID!
no weasel clauses in those defense agreements... /s
gee, I wonder what alina habba will be doing to pay her grocery bill after that trial loss...
maybe she can join that elite xtian escort agency lauren blowbert will be starting up...
thumper pumpers ...
hope she doesn't get any beetle juice on her...
She has lots of experience, ahem, sucking mushrooms. . .
MAGA equals "Sucker"...
maga = many assholes getting agitated