Trump's legal bills are being footed by his donors

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As he faces a major new lawsuit from the New York attorney general that could shut down his business, former President Donald Trump will have one advantage that is unavailable to most well-healed defendants: He won’t have to pay for much, if any, of his legal defense.

The reason: His political donors are doing it for him.

Recent filings by Save America, Trump’s political action committee, show the group has shelled out $1,128,020 this year to lawyers who have spearheaded his and his family’s defense in their legal battle with New York Attorney General Letitia James.

These include $942,277 to the law firm of Alina Habba, the New Jersey-based lawyer who has been Trump’s lead lawyer in the case. The total includes $207,827 paid just last month. In addition, Alan Futerfas, another longtime Trump lawyer who is representing the former president’s children in the case, received $184,743 from Save America in July.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-legal-bills-leadership-pac-letitia-james-lawsuit-220319571.html

[Mr.Bill]

1. I could have represented him for

half the price and got the same results.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Did he pay personal taxes on those appropriated donations?

Somehow, it seems doubtful.

[blm]

3. Good question.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Unless it is going directly to his lawyers

the donations are just going into his pocket. He has no intention of paying them if they don't insist on getting paid in advance.

He can't resist scamming every cent that comes anywhere near an account he has access to.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Trump PAC payments to law firm fighting New York probe top $1 million

I am shocked that TFG has been paying Alina Habba's bills

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-pac-payments-law-firm-fighting-york-probe/story?id=90242978&cid=social_twitter_abcnp

Former President Donald Trump's political action committees have paid over a million dollars to the firm of the attorney representing him in connection with the investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James, which on Wednesday resulted in a sweeping, multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Trump and his family real estate business following years of probing.

Together, two of Trump's PACs -- Save America and Make America Great Again PAC -- have paid $1.01 million to the firm of New Jersey-based attorney Alina Habba, according to new campaign disclosure filings.

The first payment to Habba's firm occurred in February 2022, when Trump's campaign committee-turned-PAC paid the firm $10,000.....

Last month, Trump hired a new lawyer, Chris Kise, to represent him in the criminal probe that led to the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago in August. Save America PAC paid Kise's firm $3 million to cover his work, according to a report from Politico.

In its latest disclosure filing, Save America reported paying another law firm, Critton, Luttier & Coleman LLP, $3 million in August, the single biggest legal expenditure the PAC has reported.