Trump had the money to fund his race in 2016 for the GOP nomination. Any candidate, dependent on donor money while facing the combined opposition of the GOP establishment and the media, would have been forced out before the party convention.
Trump has the money to fight the left’s use of the legal system to crush him. He has spent millions of dollars on attorneys defending him from numerous lawsuits and criminal investigations. Politicians without huge personal financial resources are forced out. Look at what happened to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin after she became a lightening rod in the 2008 presidential election. Leftist groups buried her with spurious civil lawsuits overwhelming her ability to fund a defense. She resigned from the governor’s office, which was the intent of the campaign of legal persecution waged against her. Once she resigned from office the lawsuits suddenly dried up. The legal system, supported by the mainstream media, was used to remove her from the public sphere.
The politicization of the judiciary is one of the great travesties of the 20th century. Judges once threw frivolous lawsuits out saving defendants of attempted baseless legal persecution the legal and emotional cost of defending themselves against legal attacks. DA’s once prosecuted cases of real criminal behavior brought to them by law enforcement and backed with conclusive evidence. Now DA’s run for office on promises to target individuals and use the heavy fist of government to target individuals and find a crime. They are enabled by the millions of laws and regulations on the books which no human being can be aware of.
The judicial system which once protected individual liberty now facilitates tyranny and the politics of personal destruction. Real criminals go free while resources are consumed on personal vendettas. Judges, who once maintained a respectable aura of objectivity, no matter their political or social views, now assist in the manipulation of the courtroom to achieve political goals or to crush perceived enemies of those in power.
DeSantis, Haley, Pence, and others potentially pursuing the GOP nomination likely have personal net worths of over a million dollars. As Sarah Palin’s experienced, a million dollars today can easily be chewed up defending against multiple lawsuits filed for the express purpose of destroying an individual’s reputation and financial resources. Mitt Romney, with an estimated net worth of $300 million, is probably the only prominent Republican other than Trump who has the personal financial resources to fund multiple civil and criminal defenses. It is noteworthy Mitt has not thrown his hat in the ring to run for the nomination since his loss in 2012.
At a time when the nation needs good citizens to step forward and run for public office, the combined forces of the left are making the cost of public service untenable for conservatives. When good people are not able and willing to serve, the corrupt, criminal, and tyrannical will fill the void.
“a million dollars today can easily be chewed up defending against multiple lawsuits filed for the express purpose of destroying an individual’s reputation and financial resources.”
There probably are Republican lawyers that would be willing to take such cases pro bono.