Trump biographer raises questions about his wealth as campaign donors foot the bill for his many lawyers
Former President Donald Trumpās PACs have spent about $50 million in donor money on his legal bills last year, sources told The New York Times.
The āstaggering sumā spent by Trump on his legal fees and investigation-related expenses is about the same amount his lone remaining GOP primary opponent Nikki Haley raised across all her committees last year, the Timesā Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher write. Federal Election Commission filings this week are expected to detail the full extent of Trumpās āenormous financial strain,ā they added.
Trump, who has a penchant for relying on campaign donations to pay his lawyers if he actually pays them at all, has used his Save America PAC to cover his legal costs. When the PAC ran low on cash last year, Trump asked for an unusual refund of $60 million that had been transferred to the pro-Trump MAGA Inc. PAC. Trump has also been directing 10% of donations raised through Save America to a PAC that primarily pays his lawyers, according to the Times.
American justice system in a nutshell.
Guy can be found to have done sexual assault, but criminal prosecutors wouldnāt touch him because he did it in a city where his close personal friend was the mayor. It took 30 years to reach a judgement against him, and even that was for a relatively piddly sum given the time and effort involved in the pursuit. The thing that really got Trump in trouble wasnāt the act of physical and sexual violence. It wasnāt the defamation that followed. It was the way he and his lawyer were shitty on the stand in a second trial resulting from his remarks on the results of the first trial.
This is what it takes to bring a rich man to something approaching the possibility justice in America. And even after all this bullshit, thereās almost zero chance that a Florida court or Sheriffās Department will assist Carroll in collecting on the damages becauseā¦ Trump is close personal friends with the governor.
Theyāre definitely not friends. They just follow the same hateful ideology and will put their differences aside for it.
Now that Trumpās the inevitably nominee, Ronās falling back into brown-noser mode and will do everything in his power to get Trump to like him. And even if DeSantis wasnāt bending over backwards to please the partyās kingpin, he wouldnāt be terribly inclined to aid a New York feminist and advice columnist in pursuing legal action against The Don.
Yup, heās putting his dislike of Trump aside for the sake of advancing the Christofascist agenda.