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Donald Trump spent over $52 million in PAC donor money on legal fees last year. Here's where it all went.

www.businessinsider.com

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Donald Trump spent over $52 million in PAC donor money on legal fees last year. Here's where it all went.

www.businessinsider.com

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News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Donald Trump spent over $50 million in PAC donor money on legal fees in 2023. The vast majority went to firms working on his personal legal problems.

Donald Trump spent $52,431,858 on legal fees in 2023 using PAC funds, a Business Insider analysis found.
The vast majority — nearly $40 million — went to law firms working on his personal legal problems.
Trump spent this small fortune in donor money on his legal fees despite being a billionaire.

Former President Donald Trump has a lot of legal problems.

So do his company and three eldest children.

Often, political donors are footing the bill.

A Business Insider analysis has found that Trump supporters funded at least $52,431,858 in legal services in 2023 through two political action committees the GOP frontrunner controls.

Nearly $40 million of the $52.4 million in donor money was spent on law firms working on cases that had nothing to do with Trump’s candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, the analysis found.

The legions of MAGA faithful may not have been aware of this when they parted with their small-dollar donations last year, galvanized by Trump’s cries of “witch hunt” as he was indicted in a New York hush-money scheme in April and a Georgia election-interference case in August.

But significant portions of their donations went to law firms defending Trump in civil cases involving his real-estate empire and its top executives, including Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump.

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The most surprising thing I think is that this confirms that he does sometimes pay lawyers.
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  Only with other people’s money.
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  Rudy must be fuming.
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  Incorrect. MAGA paid some of his lawyers.
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  I wonder how many are demanding upfront payment now.

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