Posted on 07/30/2023 8:36:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Save America, the political action committee financing former President Trump’s 2024 presidential bid, spent over $40 million on legal fees in the first half of 2023. These expenses reflect the ballooning costs of defending the embattled former president as he faces a growing list of legal challenges.
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Even where the charges against Trump are contrived (Alvin Bragg Slowly Realizes His Trump Indictment Is Going to Backfire, and He’s Getting Desperate), he has to spend a lot of money protecting his interests until the case is closed. Should he prevail in all the cases, the final legal bill will dwarf the amount paid so far.
The Washington Post reports that the Federal Election Commission filing due Monday will show that Save America PAC spent $40.2 million on legal services. If true, this would indicate that his PAC spent over $4 million more than the $35 million it raised in Second Quarter 2023. The known legal expense of President Trump since he left office is about $56 million.
As a sign that more and larger legal expenses are on the way, the New York Times reports that former President Trump’s Save America PAC has asked his Make America Great Again super PAC to return $60 million in donations made to the super PAC by the PAC. We don’t yet know how much, if any, of the super PAC donations were returned.
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I thought that Trump was self-funding?
Now, the question is are we going to step up and help in in the fight?
Or are we like liberals, and think our freedom should be bought with Others Peoples Money.
Folks, you are going to have to earn your freedom and responsibilities. It is going to cost you.
There needs to be educational pathways to reasonable cost legal counsel.
Every nutjob on this forum that backs the Ukraine Slaughter hates President Trump. I wonder why that might be? /sarcastic
Trump didn’t self fund his campaigns.
Disney was in his top 5 contributors in BOTH 2016 and 2020. They’re not doing too well lately thanks to DeSantis, which is one of the many things that could be hurting Trump.
2016:
https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contributors?id=n00023864
2020:
https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/donald-trump/contributors?id=N00023864
Once again, this is a total failure to appreciate unconventional campaigning. In 2015-16, he used rallies to make an end run around national media by forcing local media to cover the rallies without the hour up front bashing him and with limited time for snarky comments.
In this case, it has already been demonstrated that the majority of Trump voters (i.e., the majority of the GOP) believe he is unfairly charged; that everytime there is another indictment, his poll numbers rise and polling shows more and more Americans believe he is being railroaded and/or the Rutabaga’s DoINJustice is thoroughly political and compromised.
This IS ADVERTISING, the best kind. Trump could buy ads with that money, but this is every bit as effective. People still don’t get that.
Even Nick Knack PaddyWhack Give a Uke a Bomb wants more $ to Ukraine.
I wonder if this is why Trump wants all of his opponents to drop out and send their campaign dollars to him. 🤔
That's an interesting first thought that comes to your mind about this.
For me, it's imagining the chilling effect on candidates not approved by the Deep State who want to run for office.
$40 million and counting. And it will go much higher.
No siree. Not a problem, right?
Oh look! It’s the “brought to you by Pfizer” parrot!
Isn’t it cute?
WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s main fundraising committee raised more than $35 million during the April-June period, a campaign official said, nearly twice what the group gathered in the prior three months.
Trump PAC Requested $60 Million Refund Amid Legal Woes: Report
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-pac-requested-60-million-133853254.html
The alleged document crimes can carry penalties that are along the lines of those of committing murder.
Trump might have to effectively serve what is a life sentence without parole for document possession even though he probably has the information in his head and could write the information down using a pen.
“I thought that Trump was self-funding?”
What basis did you have for thinking that?
I think in the 2016 campaign he spent $70-$100 million of his own money. Show me any other politician who comes even close to that level of personal investment.
Biden and Clinton spent zero of their own funds.
Trump didn’t self fund his campaigns.
Trump has paid for the majority, but not all, of his presidential campaign out of his own pocket. Trump’s self-funding accounts for 72 percent of his campaign spending so far ($45.7 million in campaign loans and $63.3 million in expenditures as of May 31). Trump raised the remainder from mostly small donors.
Find me another person who did that!
The fund — which, again, did not actually exist — raised $250 million, most of which did not go to election litigation, but to Trump’s newly created Save America PAC. The PAC then made contributions to Mark Meadows’ charity, to a conservative organization employing former Trump staffers, to the Trump Hotel Collection, and to the company that organized the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fundraising-scam-jan-6-hearing-1367359/
Former CEO of Disney Ike Prlmutter donated $10 million to the America First Action PAC. Perlmutter has since been fired by Disney.
That was the 2020 "Disney" contribution.
“REPORT: Legal Fees Dominate Spending by Trump’s PAC”
massive fascist lawfare attacks against Trump by the leftist fasicst Deep State Democrats are the main weapons they are using against Trump, since they are unable to otherwised politically justify to the voting public that their total warfare against our way of life is what the voting public wants and wants more of ...
NONE of these lawfare attacks would have been levied if Trump wasn’t the GOP front runner and such a major threat to the Deep State, both in terms of their agenda as well as a legal reckoning likely to put many of the Deep Staters in prison ...
It is therefore reasonable that those attacks be countered with campaign funds ...
No doubt all of the anti-MAGA RINOs, pro-leftist-fascists, are perfectly delighted if Trump had to spend only his personal funds to fend of illegal fascist political lawfare attacks due solely to his oppositional leadership ...
Sadly, it seems like Trump’s attorneys are more interested in maximizing their billings that being efficient with their time.
This is why anyone being sued should study the law and cases for themselves before hiring an attorney.
If General Flynn had done so, he could have gotten his attorneys to get the case dismissed in very short order. His case was not difficult to defend since no one had ever been convicted under the statute charged; and, it was widely known the statute is unconstitutional. His attorneys were working for the government and not him.
Sort of the reverse of the Hunter Biden case, except the DOJ attorneys have been working for Hunter; and Joe. No one is honestly disputing this fact.
This is why anyone being sued should study the law and cases for themselves before hiring an attorney.
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