Former President Donald Trump spent more than $50 million in political action committee funds on his ballooning legal fees last year, according to new campaign filings.
Trump’s PACs, Save America and Make America Great Again, funneled huge amounts of money into the former president’s half-dozen legal cases, ending the year with a combined $5.7 million in cash on hand, records show of the Federal Electoral Commission.
Fundraising committees began the year with a total of $18.5 million in cash on hand, and Make America Great Again sent $42.5 million to Save America over the course of 2023 to recover funds lost in the legal battles.
However, the 77-year-old’s main campaign committee still had more than $33 million in cash on hand at the end of 2023.
Trump currently faces 91 criminal charges in two federal indictments, one state and one local, with all of those cases expected to go to trial during 2024.
Former President Trump spent more than $50 million in political action committee funds in 2023 on his ballooning legal fees, according to new campaign filings. AP Trump’s Save America and Make America Great Again PACs funneled huge amounts of money into the former president’s half-dozen legal cases, ending 2023 with $5.7 million in cash on hand. AP
Additionally, the former president faced civil lawsuits in New York for allegedly inflating the Trump Organization’s wealth and defaming magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, after being found liable early last year for sexually abusing Carroll in a fitting room. by Bergdorf Goodman in 1996.
Trump was ordered last week to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages, but has vowed to appeal the decision. A verdict in his $370 million corporate fraud case is expected this month.
Trump paid nearly $5 million to his lawyer Chris Kise, who represents the former president against serious charges of corporate fraud in Manhattan and against serious charges of illegally retaining national security documents in federal court in Miami.
Trump currently faces 91 criminal charges in two federal indictments, one state and one local, and all of those cases are expected to go to trial during the 2024 election year. REUTERS
President Biden is also being investigated by special counsel Robert Hur for keeping classified documents in his Delaware mansion and Washington, D.C., office after his time in the Senate and the Obama White House.
But reports indicate that the 81-year-old commander-in-chief is not expected to face charges at the conclusion of the investigation.
Alina Habba, who serves as Trump’s spokesperson and attorney in the Trump Organization civil case, raised $2.3 million, according to the filing.
The former president faced civil lawsuits in New York for inflating the Trump Organization’s wealth and defaming magazine writer E. Jean Carroll. fake images
Three other attorneys, John Lauro, Todd Blanche and Steven Sadow, earned about $2.5 million, $2 million and $1.5 million, respectively, for representing the former president against allegations of federal election interference and Georgia.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department has spent $23 million in taxpayer funds investigating Trump, but only $6.4 million on its case against Biden.
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