The Justice Dept. Special Counsel and other DOJ investigation’s has cost taxpayers less then $10 Million….
There are other costs in Manhattan, Atlanta and other civil cases…
But they are nowhere near what we think Trump & Co. will be….
Donald Trump his fundraising outfits have spent a reportedly $56 Million or more…..
And this is just the lead in to MORE criminal and civil trial costs that run for probably 24 months or more….
The political action committee that former President Donald J. Trump is using to pay his legal bills faced such staggering costs this year that it requested a refund on a $60 million contribution it made to another group supporting the Republican front-runner, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The decision signals a potential money crisis for Mr. Trump, who has so far refused to pay his own voluminous bills directly and has also avoided creating a legal-defense fund for himself and people who have become entangled in the various investigations related to him.
It comes as Mr. Trump runs a campaign while under indictment in two jurisdictions and, soon, potentially a third, while also paying the legal fees of a number of witnesses who are close to him or who work for him.
It is unclear how much money was refunded.
But the refund was sought as the political action committee, Save America, spent more than $40 million in legal fees incurred by Mr. Trump and witnesses in various legal cases related to him this year alone, according to another person familiar with the matter.
The numbers will be part of the Save America Federal Election Commission filing that is expected to be made public late on Monday.
That $40 million was in addition to $16 million that Save America spent in the previous two years on legal fees. Since then, Mr. Trump has been indicted twice and has expanded the size of his legal team, and his two co-defendants in the case related to his retention of classified material work for him. The total legal spending is roughly $56 million.
The $40 million figure was reported earlier by The Washington Post.
The PAC was the entity in which Mr. Trump had parked the more than $100 million raised when he sought small-dollar donations after losing the 2020 election. Mr. Trump claimed he needed the support to fight widespread fraud in the race. Officials, including some with his campaign, turned up no evidence of widespread fraud.
Mr. Trump used some of that $100 million for other politicians and political activities in 2022, but he also used it to pay more than $16 million in legal fees, most of them related to investigations into him, and at least $10 million of which was for his own personal fees…..
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Chris Christie on Tuesday railed against Donald Trump “for using donations to his political operation to help pay his myriad legal bills,” CNBC reports.
Said Christie: “Most of the money that middle-class Americans have given to him, he’s spent on his own legal fees.”
And then there is THIS……
The leadership political action committee founded by Donald Trump paid $108,000 to Melania Trump’s stylist in the first six months of 2023 for “strategy consulting,” the Daily Beast reports.
Note….
We hear that the Feds are also looking at if political solicited funds used for legal payments might be seen as a ‘fraud’?