It’s complicated…..
The fund is being set up BY Donald Trump’s ‘team’….
Trump, who we think, IS a multi-millionaire , did NOT want to do this, saying innocewnt people don’t need them, and says he won’t be using the fund to pay HIS legal bill’s which are in the tens of millions of dollars…..
He’s actually used over $40 Million from his Political Action committee for himself and others already who have needed legal assistance….
The PAC , Save America , has had the Feds snooping around it and had to ask for $60 million back from another Trump super PAC….
Trump HAS come under pressure from other for taking money donated for politcal purposes being used for him to defend himself and others…..
He HAS been using political donation for legal costs all along…..
We have no indication he’s gone into his own personal funds….
Donald Trump’s legal Bills along with his co-defendants is gonna be a whole LOT BIGGER MILLIONS before things are over….
Last month, Mr. Trump appeared at a fund-raiser at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., for a group that assists those arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 riot and their families. “I’m going to make a contribution,” Mr. Trump told them, according to a video of his remarks. That group’s name, the Patriot Freedom Project, echoes the new name of Mr. Trump’s legal fund.
Mr. Trump had long resisted such an entity. For years, he told people that only guilty people have legal-defense funds.
Mr. Trump, a wealthy businessman, has been using money parked in Save America to pay legal bills for himself and a number of witnesses in the four criminal investigations into his actions in and out of office. Save America was created to house the more than $100 million that Mr. Trump raised shortly after the November 2020 election, as he claimed he needed his supporters’ help to combat widespread voter fraud.
No such widespread fraud was ever proved, but Mr. Trump had tens of millions of dollars at his disposal. He cannot spend the money directly on his 2024 presidential candidacy, but has been using it for legal bills. Last year, he made the $60 million transfer to the super PAC that is backing him, well before the refund request was made.
In 2021 and 2022, Save America paid for Mr. Trump’s political operation while he was out of office and not an official candidate, paying for staff members and rallies. It also picked up $16 million in legal fees.
Mr. Trump’s rivals have been using the Save America legal payments as an attack on him. And he appears to have recognized it as a potential weak point: On Saturday evening, at a rally in Erie, Pa., he said he would put whatever money he needs to put into his campaign, if it comes to that….