Donald Trump recently started moving donations away from his campaign and into a PAC that has helped pay his legal bills. As stevebenen writes, one of GOP rivals noticed.
, taking rhetorical aim at his party’s front-runner. “Donald Trump is not fighting for us, but is using us to pay his legal bills,” the Arkansas Republican wrote. “He is using small dollar donations from supporters to do this. Americans struggle to make ends meet, while one of the richest men in the country leverages them into paying his debts.
The change, which went unannounced except in the fine print of his online disclosures, raises fresh questions about how Mr. Trump is paying for his mounting legal bills — which could run into millions of dollars — as he prepares for at least two criminal trials, and whether his PAC, Save America, is facing a financial crunch.
When the former president kicked off his comeback bid, 99 cents of every dollar raised online went to his 2024 campaign, while one penny went to Save America.is that Trump’s operation, “sometime in February or March,” tweaked the ratio: Now, instead of one penny from every dollar, it’s 10 cents. The effect of that change is potentially substantial: Based on fund-raising figures announced by his campaign, the fine-print maneuver may already have diverted at least $1.5 million to Save America. And the existence of the group has allowed Mr. Trump to have his small donors pay for his legal expenses, rather than paying for them himself.by campaign-finance experts as “essentially a type of slush fund, with few restrictions” on how the money can be spent.
This shift doesn’t come out of nowhere. During Trump’s White House tenure, for example, as the then-president faced growing legal bills, the Republican National Committee
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