Trump knows he can’t win a general election. He’s already making excuses for it in some of his rants on Truth Social.
Increasingly it’s starting to look like Trump is running to pay his legal bills and delay his court cases
Why does Trump engage in this kind of grift?
Yeah, it's the NYT....but it is easily verifiable
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/politics/trump-donations-legal-fees.html