2023-07-31 00:59:37
Save America, the political action committee that financed him, demands a million-dollar refund that includes what was spent on causes from previous years.
The former president of the United States Donald Trump He has spent something so far this year more than 40 million dollars in legal fees for different causes once morest him and the entity that financed him claims the refund of 60 million.
According to reports published by the North American press, the expenses in legal fees for the defense of the former head of the White House exceed 40 million dollars in 2023 alone and the political action committee that used to finance them requests the reimbursement of close to 20 million dollars more, owed from previous periods.
Save America, the former president’s political action committee (PAC), is expected to reveal regarding $40.2 million in legal expenses on Monday, people close to the matter told The Washington Post.
To that amount are added another 16 million that the PAC spent in the previous two years on legal fees defending Trump in his court proceedings.
Since then, the former president was twice accused and expanded the size of his legal team.
The total legal expense is approximately $56 million, according to two sources related to the issue, according to another weight newspaper, The New York Times.
Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the former president, said Save America was paying the legal fees of those who worked for Trump “to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed” for what he called “illegal harassment” to the detriment of Trump.
The mogul and his campaign have long accused officials at the Justice Department and the FBI to conduct investigations on him for political reasons. “They know they don’t have a legitimate case,” Cheung said.
The New York newspaper noted a possible Trump currency crisiswho so far refuses to pay directly his own legal bills and avoided creating a legal defense fund.
Through the PAC, the former US president raised more than $100 million when he sought small donations following losing the 2020 election.
Trump claimed he needed support to combat what he estimated was widespread fraud in the electoral contest.
Officials around him, including some from his campaign, found no evidence of widespread fraud.
The Republican used part of those 100 million dollars for other referents and political activities in 2022, but he also used the 16 million mentioned for legal expenses, and at least 10 million were for his own personal fees.
It’s unclear how much money was returned, but Save America has requested a refund of a $60 million contribution it made. to another group that supports the Republican leader.
Earlier this year, Trump began diverting a larger percentage of every dollar he raised online from his campaign to the PAC, which he used to pay his lawyers.
The former president is campaigning for the elections next year while it’s accused in two jurisdictions and, soon, potentially a third, while paying the legal fees of various witnesses who are close to him or who work for him.
At the start of the 2024 campaign, Trump had dedicated 99 cents of every dollar raised online to your campaign. But he changed that formula to now give just 90 cents to the campaign and 10 cents to the PAC, which has served as a kind of de facto legal fund.
The move drew strong criticism from some of his rivals. Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, last month called it “shameful“.
Trump and the Save America report
Donald Trump while speaking at a “Save America” campaign event in Youngstown, Ohio, in 2022. Photo EFE
Save America started 2023 with just $18 million in cash on hand, which is less than half of what was spent on legal bills this year.
The numbers will be part of the presentation of the Federal Election Commission of Save America that is expected to be made public this Monday night, the ANSA news agency reported.
In May of this year, a New York jury found the former president guilty of having sexually abused by a writer in the changing room of a New York store. In addition, she faced a cause for pay a porn actress for her silence and another for seize classified documentswhich were found on one of his properties.
In one of his last cases, sued CNN for discrediting him and comparing him to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
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