The former president was indicted four times last year and has also had to answer civil lawsuits targeting his business and him as an individual.
Former President Donald Trump’s affiliated committees spent about $27 million on lawyers’ bills and related legal fees in the last six months of 2023, new federal election filings show, bringing the total for a year that included four separate indictments to almost $50 million.
Trump’s political fundraising apparatus is sprawling, but the new filings show that the price of lawyers is weighing him down. Still, Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, has seized on the legal cases against him as a potent fundraising tool, with his booking in a Georgia election case giving him what his campaign said was a record single-day haul.
Save America PAC, one of the groups Trump uses to raise money, spent $24.3 million on “legal consulting” in the last six months of 2023, according to federal election filings. That includes payments to firms that include lawyers like John Lauro, who is representing Trump in the case related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election; Todd Blanche, who also represents Trump in the New York hush money case; and Alina Habba, who represents Trump in the defamation case filed against him by author E. Jean Carroll and has appeared at his criminal arraignments.
The GOP has a great trick they love to play. Get elected and pass a law that you know is going to be challenged in the courts. Say a book ban or demanding all school kids memorize the 10 Commandments to graduate kindergarten. Now the Left is forced to divert money from political races to court cases. And, since the GOP is funded by taxpayers, they can drag the cases out for years, costing the Left more and more money.
Trump’s done the reverse. The base is ignoring the regular GOP and pouring money into Trump’s ever empty pockets.
https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-state-republican-parties-going-broke-1858680