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.

  • ULS@lemmy.ml
    4·
    9 months ago

    It’s not like the people donating don’t know that’s what it’s going to go to.

    • kreekybonez@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      pretty sure the spam calls and emails to the poor saps only talk about “saving america”

      then they’re free to make up whatever it is they think that means

      • ULS@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 months ago

        Then this is just it. Americans really are stupid at a level so great it’s like a darkness/evil. Which means there’s no hope anyway. That means this is the end coming.