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Trump team launching legal defense fund to help pay legal bills
ABC News ^ | July 30, 2023 | Olivia Rubin and John Santucci

Posted on 07/30/2023 9:04:18 PM PDT by Golden Eagle

Former President Donald Trump's team is launching a legal defense fund aimed at helping to handle the onslaught of legal bills the former president and his allies face as the investigations into him mount, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.

On Sunday, ABC News reported that a super PAC supporting Trump spent more than $40 million on legal costs in the first half of 2023 to defend Trump, his advisers and others, sources familiar with a filing detailing the costs told ABC.

The filing from the Save America PAC is expected to be released on Monday.

The legal defense fund will be called the Patriot Legal Defense Fund Inc., the sources said. It is expected to be led by Michael Glassner, who has previously served in multiple senior roles on Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

Trump and his allies have consistently pushed supporters to donate to Save America, often using false claims about the 2020 election and soliciting donations to rebuke the multiple investigations into the former president, his business dealings and his actions on Jan. 6.

The Save America super PAC has, in the past, reported taking in tens of millions of dollars and has helped cover legal bills for either Trump or his allies.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: legalfees
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Good move. The donations should be separate, especially since not everyone who wants him to win his court cases wants him to keep running for President.
1 posted on 07/30/2023 9:04:18 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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Don't worry - after the Democrats/Uniparty win these lawsuits against Trump, they'll never do it again against another Republican.

Nosiree!!

Cross their hearts, and hope to die!  

2 posted on 07/30/2023 9:08:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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Yep!

This here is a one-time thing!

3 posted on 07/30/2023 9:09:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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Would it be legal for non-Americans to donate to this ?


4 posted on 07/30/2023 9:18:54 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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Hopefully Trump will win them all. He has obviously been targeted with some of the prosecutions, when compared to others. But just because his DOJ didn’t prosecute people like Hillary, as he said he would, doesn’t mean this one won’t.


5 posted on 07/30/2023 9:20:39 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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i’ve said it before, but i’ll say it again:

Massive fascist lawfare attacks against Trump by the leftist fascist Deep State Democrats are the main weapons they’re using against Trump because they are unable to politically justify to the voting public that their total warfare against our way of life is what the voting public wants ...

NONE of these lawfare attacks would have been levied if Trump wasn’t the GOP front runner and wasn’t also 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 unquestionably legitimate that those attacks be countered with campaign funds ... period ...

No doubt all of rthe anti-MAGA RINOs and pro-leftist-fascists would be perfectly delighted if Trump had to spend only his personal funds to fend off the illegal fascist political lawfare attacks that have resulted solely from his powerful oppositional leadership against the the Deep State fascists ...


6 posted on 07/30/2023 9:22:03 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: Reverend Wright
Would it be legal for non-Americans to donate to this ?

Great question, and I would think they probably could. Another great reason to separate the two, if true.

7 posted on 07/30/2023 9:22:36 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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Have you seen the list of people they are going after in addition to Trump?

https://michiganadvance.com/2022/06/29/trumps-fake-electors-heres-the-full-list/

This country is beginning to make the USSR look like a party.


8 posted on 07/30/2023 9:23:20 PM PDT by MarMema
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I just think a billionaire should pay their own legal costs. Basically having the working class pay the bill seems unseemly. I’m sure most disagree. I know it already. Can’t have trump spend money if his own.


9 posted on 07/30/2023 9:29:53 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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Not all of those 84 names are being charged, are they? It thought it was just the ones in Michigan, where the laws are so strict. Seems excessive, either way, but maybe Trump will use this fund to help defend them. If I understand it is for more than just him, or at least hopefully so.


10 posted on 07/30/2023 9:31:07 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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He has obviously been targeted with some of the prosecutions, when compared to others.

All the "prosecutions" are targeted.

Note the smell of bananas:

Neither Trump nor any of the other Republican candidates can get enough votes in 2024 to overcome the Democrat ballots.

11 posted on 07/30/2023 9:34:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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If people want to donate to his campaign, they should be allowed. And if they want to donate to his legal fund they should be allowed. The important part is there should be no confusion now, and it will be interesting to see how they compare.


12 posted on 07/30/2023 9:34:13 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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Clearly you have no idea the cost of legal bills for, what 5, 6 big legal cases across the country. That would bankrupt in billionaire in short order which is what the left wants.


13 posted on 07/30/2023 9:37:53 PM PDT by vivenne
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It thought it was just the ones in Michigan, where the laws are so strict.

LOL!

"The laws are so strict."

Or they have a case of demonic possession in the top law officer in Michigan.

This is the same one who forced a dam operator to maintain maximum water levels during the spring crest "to save the wittle mussels", causing the dams to blow out, massive flooding downstream - and the majority of the mussels ended up dead.

OF COURSE, the possessed one blamed the dam operator...

14 posted on 07/30/2023 9:41:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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The only reason this is happening, is because Trump is running again, and looks to be likely to win the nomination, and competitive in the election.

If he was just at Mar a Lago and playing golf, none of this would be happening.

So these are expenses which are the result of their political vendetta against him, and everyone who supports him.

i’m happy to donate to the legal defence fund, even though I am not a US citizen.

Globohomo is after every normal person in the world, and we need to support regardless of borders.


15 posted on 07/30/2023 9:41:22 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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All the "prosecutions" are targeted.

Could be. But according to the audio I heard, which sounded like Trump waving a classified battle plan around a room at his golf club, there could be some problems there.

Neither Trump nor any of the other Republican candidates can get enough votes in 2024 to overcome the Democrat ballots.

Could be as well. I know of basically nothing that has been done in the battleground states we lost in 2020, and we lost the big elections in those states in 2022 as well.

16 posted on 07/30/2023 9:44:02 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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To: vivenne

Why were people outraged when the Clinton’s had their legal defense fund? Isn’t it a it hypocritical?


17 posted on 07/30/2023 9:44:33 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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Or they have a case of demonic possession in the top law officer in Michigan.

Could be both, could it not? I’ve just heard several actual lawyers say the laws are more strict in Michigan, and so there may only be charges there. I still don’t think all 84 of those people in that article will be charged, do you? That was my question.

18 posted on 07/30/2023 9:48:17 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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Could be. But according to the audio I heard, which sounded like Trump waving a classified battle plan around a room at his golf club, there could be some problems there.

I don't waste my time listening to most Media.

Remember - the Media dogs barking about this are the same dogs that aren't barking about Hunter Biden's tax felonies slipping past the statute of limitations...

19 posted on 07/30/2023 9:48:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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i’m happy to donate to the legal defence fund, even though I am not a US citizen. Globohomo is after every normal person in the world

I agree, but Trump is a BIG supporter of gay rights, in case you didn’t know.

20 posted on 07/30/2023 9:51:33 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Ultra Conservative)
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