New Filings Reveal Trump's Legal Bills Are Costing Him Big
Source: Daily Beast
Published May 22, 2024 4:28AM EDT
Even before his criminal hush money trial began last month, former President Donald Trumps leadership PAC was burning through hundreds of thousands of dollars every day.
Now, according to Trumps Save America leadership PACs most recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, the former president started this month at least seven figures in debt to his lawyers.
Trumps Save America leadership PACwhich he has used as a legal slush fundowes $1.1 million to five different law firms. Thats in addition to the nearly $3.3 million the committee doled out last month on legal consulting.
Save America owes its biggest debt, $837,000, to Blanche Law, the firm founded by Todd Blanche, with the bulk of that total accruing since the end of March. Blanche has served as lead counsel for the defense in the ex-presidents blockbuster hush money trial in Manhattan, and the committee paid Blanches firm $854,000 over the course of two weeks in April. Blanche is also lead counsel for Trumps classified documents case in Florida and co-counsel for his federal election interference case in D.C.
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Xipe Totec
(43,929 posts)bucolic_frolic
(44,026 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,310 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,843 posts)The payments came from Trumps PAC, which he can spend funds from as he likes, as long as he doesnt coordinate with his official campaign.
BlueMTexpat
(15,387 posts)pay them, in any event.
Irish_Dem
(50,342 posts)Blanche knows it and that is one reason for his perpetual sour face.
PatSeg
(48,401 posts)having Donald Trump as a client is more than enough to cause a perpetual sour face. That said, they knew what they were taking on in the first place. Trump's horrible reputation as a client preceded him.
Irish_Dem
(50,342 posts)He quit a very lucrative job with a respectable NY law firm.
Moved to Florida where Trump is his only client.
What could go wrong?
PatSeg
(48,401 posts)Seems that should disqualify him as a competent lawyer right off the bat.
Irish_Dem
(50,342 posts)No judgement and no self respect.
I wouldn't hire him to help me with a small claims court case.
PatSeg
(48,401 posts)When Trump is done with people, they're pretty much finished.
Irish_Dem
(50,342 posts)PatSeg
(48,401 posts)IronLionZion
(45,885 posts)and somehow he'll sucker his idiot supporters and the RNC to pay it for him.
That grifter Elena Cardone's GoFundMe is above $2 million now
https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-trump-raise-the-settlement
Fiendish Thingy
(15,843 posts)Not sure why Blanche apparently isnt.
Turbineguy
(37,558 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,779 posts)It autocorrected to bigot on first try. Of course!
hibbing
(10,152 posts)calimary
(81,986 posts)Maybe more. Whos checking?
Torchlight
(3,653 posts)Snotted Tissues, guaranteed to contain Mr.trump's own Effluvia for only $89.99 (and a free MyPillow thrown in for good measure if you act now).