Legal spending by Trump group accelerated in February, disclosures show
Source: Reuters
March 21, 2024 4:55 AM EDT
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - A fundraising group run by Donald Trump, who is facing four criminal trials as he seeks the U.S. presidency, stepped up spending on legal fees last month, further draining money from efforts to return him to the White House, financial disclosures showed on Wednesday.
In a filing to the Federal Election Commission, the group, known as Save America, detailed legal expense outlays totaling more than $5.5 million in February, the biggest single month of such spending since Trump, a Republican, formed the organization in 2020 following his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden in that year's presidential election.
The spending marked an acceleration from the close to $3 million Save America reported spending on legal bills in January. The group, which raises money together with Trump's election campaign but is legally separate, has now spent more than $55 million on legal bills since the start of 2023.
Trump's financial squeeze is deepening due to multiple legal cases and expenses, including a civil fraud case in New York in which he has been unable to secure a bond to cover a $454 million judgment. Trump has also struggled to get many major Republican donors on board with his campaign, which has been significantly outraised by Biden's. Trump is facing dozens of charges, with two of the cases against him tied to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. He has plead innocent to all the charges.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-election-campaign-raised-109-mln-february-2024-03-20/
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Shouldn't they be spending those tens of millions of dollars getting Joe Biden elected?
Trump is destroying America, but you can always rely on 'the Donald' to accuse everyone else of doing the very thing he's been doing for years.
And of course Trump is in control of this group's spending. 
I can almost guarantee that for every dollar being spent on legal fees, another dollar is going into his personal bank account.
He's fleeced the sheep in his cult so often, and for so much money, they can't, or won't, send him another penny.
I've never seen such a "really, really rich" guy begging for so much, so often. 
