Trump's PAC Burned $230,000 a Day on Legal Bills in February

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-pac-burned-dollar230000-a-day-on-legal-bills-in-february

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In the month of February, Donald Trump finally neared the start of his general election campaign against Joe Biden—while burning through his political operation’s coffers for even more cash to support his legal defenses.

On Wednesday night, Trump’s “Save America” leadership PAC—the political committee that now functions primarily as his legal slush fund—reported paying lawyers $5.6 million last month, according to Federal Election Commission filings. That’s well above the $5 million total the PAC raised in the same period.

The PAC also deferred payment on more than half a million dollars in additional fees to Alina Habba, who represented Trump in both of his milestone court losses in New York this year, while racking up a $645,000 bill to a company tasked with managing legal records in his business fraud case.

Save America also clocked a $150,000 “charitable contribution” to the Article III Project, a group that advocates for conservative judicial nominees and reforms and is run by MAGA ally Mike Davis, who has staunchly advocated for Trump’s legal defense in the press. (For good measure, the PAC also paid another $18,000 to Melania Trump’s fashion designer Herve Pierre Braillard.)

Altogether, that’s more than $6.9 million in combined legal-related payments in February from Save America alone—or about $238,000 per day during the shorter month. It’s an enormous sum for a key Trump PAC that reported having just over $4 million in the bank at the end of the month.

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[RockRaven]

1. A certain phrase in this opus seems relevant...:

https://m.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. LOL.

Send your dollars to keep a criminal out of jail.

[GoodRaisin]

3. "Deferred" payment to Habba

I wonder does that mean she wasn’t paid. Usually deferring something means delaying it. Another Trump lawyer working without getting paid?