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The former president was indicted four times last year and has also had to answer civil lawsuits targeting his business and him as an individual.

Former President Donald Trump’s affiliated committees spent about $27 million on lawyers’ bills and related legal fees in the last six months of 2023, new federal election filings show, bringing the total for a year that included four separate indictments to almost $50 million.

Trump’s political fundraising apparatus is sprawling, but the new filings show that the price of lawyers is weighing him down. Still, Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, has seized on the legal cases against him as a potent fundraising tool, with his booking in a Georgia election case giving him what his campaign said was a record single-day haul.

Save America PAC, one of the groups Trump uses to raise money, spent $24.3 million on “legal consulting” in the last six months of 2023, according to federal election filings. That includes payments to firms that include lawyers like John Lauro, who is representing Trump in the case related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election; Todd Blanche, who also represents Trump in the New York hush money case; and Alina Habba, who represents Trump in the defamation case filed against him by author E. Jean Carroll and has appeared at his criminal arraignments.

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[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 90 points 7 months ago (5 children)

So, this is fraud right? Asking for donations, saying the money is for one thing and then using it for something else. That’s called fraud, right?

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just making sure we are sticking with “losing, broke fraud” as the descriptor for this person.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'll go for 'insurrectionist rapist clown'.

[–] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I really don’t like clowns, but I think that’s an insulting comparison for them. Clowns deserve better treatment than that.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Clowning requires actual intelligence and skill. Trump is a mouth breather with tiny hands and a giant ego

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

You’re right, he hasn’t been convicted of fraud, yet.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

They claim that there was a disclaimer somewhere that said the money might be used for legal challenges or something. I think it's fraud, and some of his donors might want to sue, but I don't know if he will be prosecuted for this without more victims stepping up and demanding it. His defense could line up qultists around the block to testify on his behalf that they knew they were donating to his legal defense fund.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Could be.

Or Trump could be loaning his campaign money at substantial interest, which is perfectly legal AND a common practice with many legislators on both sides of the aisle, because all we elect are corrupt and evil people.

Imagine how much worse this is going to get when he's reelected and everything he said and did is validated. I suspect the next several years will make 2020 look like a cakewalk.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago

I'm not entirely sure. I know that he's not supposed to use any of his campaign money to pay for fines or other penalties incurred by litigation. I think he might be allowed to use it to pay lawyers to defend him, though.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately, no.