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zuul

(14,704 posts)
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 12:14 PM Apr 2022

TFG's PAC Keeps Losing Money. His Lawyers Keep Cashing In.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-pac-keeps-losing-money-his-lawyers-keep-cashing-in?ref=home

For the third straight quarter, TFG’s former campaign committee turned in a fundraising loss, shedding $1.2 million to start 2022. And the reason for almost all of the TFG campaign’s money problems is a familiar one: lawyers.

According to a campaign finance disclosure filed in recent days, the committee—“Make America Great Again PAC“—handed over about $1.1 million in legal fees between January and the end of March. That’s more than 40 percent of the PAC’s $2.6 million in total expenses, for the PAC’s biggest deficit since TFG left office. The $1.4 million it raised barely covered its legal bills.

The loss cut MAGA PAC’s cash on hand from about $6.66 million at year’s end to around $5.47 million as of March 31. The committee, which TFG converted from his old campaign after leaving office, now holds about half the $10.7 million it had at the start of 2021.

In the first half of the year, fresh off of election challenges and an impeachment trial, MAGA PAC ate the vast majority of TFG’s political legal costs—about $7.8 million of the $8 million total. The payouts plummeted in the back half of 2021, with a total $1.7 million spread over those six months, indicating another uptick to kick off 2022.
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TFG's PAC Keeps Losing Money. His Lawyers Keep Cashing In. (Original Post) zuul Apr 2022 OP
What happened to the $2 billion Jared Kushner got from MBS? Ray Bruns Apr 2022 #1
Maybe Rudy is finally getting his $20k per day? keithbvadu2 Apr 2022 #2

Ray Bruns

(6,362 posts)
1. What happened to the $2 billion Jared Kushner got from MBS?
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 12:51 PM
Apr 2022

I see another bankruptcy in the works for TFG.


keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
2. Maybe Rudy is finally getting his $20k per day?
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 01:47 PM
Apr 2022

Maybe Rudy is finally getting his $20k per day?

Now why would I suspect kickbacks of lawyer fees to the Trumps?

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