Donald Trump’s political operation is reeling after spending around $60 million on legal fees pertaining to the four criminal indictments and various ongoing civil lawsuits against him.
Disclosures indicate that Trump’s campaign and the various political action committees supporting it blew through tens of millions of dollars in 2023, leaving him cash-strapped heading into 2024.
Save America PAC, Trump’s primary PAC heading into his likely rematch with President Joe Biden, once had over $100 million in the bank. Now, it has just a little over $5 million left after spending over $25 million on legal bills in the second half of last year alone.
Holy fuck he’s paying his own legal bills from campaign money? I guess it’s not illegal.
He had the RNC paying them for a while. Supposedly what he’s doing now is okay because his website says that’s where the money is going.
If he’s not hiding anything and the donators are fine with it… Doesn’t seem illegal
The problem is how transparent they are being. If you get an email saying “TRUMP NEEDS YOUR HELP TAKING ON THE WOKE MOB” and there’s a big donate button that brings you to donate to “SAVE AMERICA PAC” and it just so happens that they’re spending 90% of their money on his legal defense, how well informed were you?
the math gets complicated when you realize the initial value for ‘informed’ was imaginary.
When he gets elected and either pardons himself or never leaves the White House until his death, none of this matters to him a single bit.
Spending $50 million on legal fees instead of building out campaign infrastructure and paying for ads reduces the odds he gets elected though.
Way to many things about campaigning and financing are not illegal, and that needs to get fixed.
Oh, yeah, that’d be great, but corporations are people. Except in terms of wage theft, unsafe working conditions, or dangerous products. There’s nobody to put in jail for those, nothing we can do, sorry!