Donald Trumpā€™s PACs spent $50 million on the former presidentā€™s legal bills in 2023, according to a report from the New York Times.

The former presidentā€™s PAC are operating as slush funds to help him fight off a mountain of civil and criminal cases

Donald Trumpā€™s PACs spent a staggering $50 million on the former presidentā€™s legal defense in 2023, according to a report from The New York Times.

According to two sources who spoke to the Times, the former presidentā€™s massive legal bills were paid out through funds from the Save America PAC and the Make America Great Again PAC, his two primary political action committees. The full details of the PAC spending will be made available Wednesday, the deadline for Federal Election Commission year-end campaign filings.

Given the multiple civil and criminal cases leveled against Trump in the last year, the mountain of legal bills is not necessarily a surprise. In August of last year, Save America revealed that it had burned through the majority of its cash-on-hand on Trump and his associatesā€™ legal defenses. The Times reported at the time that Save America had requested a $60 million refund from another Trump-affiliated group to keep itself afloat.

According to the Times, 10 cents of every dollar donated to Trumpā€™s campaign is being directed towards Save America, which in the last year has operated virtually exclusively as a legal slush fund for the former president.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    412Ā·
    11 months ago

    Using campaign donations for personal expenses like this is of course super illegal.

    If just about anyone else had done it to this degree, their campaign would be over and theyā€™d be facing a seperate trial for it or at the very least the maximum fines available to the FEC.