"Trump is out of money": Republicans fear Trump will drain RNC funds to pay his own legal bills

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A crop of senior GOP officials fear that Donald Trump's effort to pack the Republican National Committee with his preferred picks could give way to the former president using the RNC to cover his legal bills — again. Their worries come on the heels of Trump's endorsements earlier this week of his daughter-in-law, among other allies, to assume leadership roles at the committee. "While those endorsements have been well-received by many committee members — who note that it is customary for a presidential candidate to put his imprint on the party’s main campaign apparatus — others fear a potential misallocation of party resources," Politico reports.

Henry Barbour, a Mississippi committee member, told the outlet that he thinks “most RNC members will go along” with Trump's committee lineup "unless there is a play to use RNC funds for President Trump’s legal bills.” Another member who has been critical of the former president, Oscar Brock, told Politico that the RNC's recently passed budget did not allot any money for Trump's legal fees. Brock did recognize, however, the potential for the committee to reconfigure its financial plan to do so upon request, which the Tennessee committeeman said he'd be against. “I don’t think it’s appropriate for the committee to pay the legal bills for things done outside the work of the committee,” Brock told Politico.

Chris LaCivita, a senior Trump campaign strategist, called the concerns about the committee paying Trump's legal fees "manufactured." Instead, the money would come from other avenues, including Trump's Save America PAC and his own pocket, senior campaign advisors told Politico. In 2021 and 2022, the RNC forked over nearly $2 million to two legal firms working on the former president's cases but stopped once Trump launched his current presidential campaign. It will still have a legal fund intended to handle lawsuits, recount efforts and typical legal business for the party.

Lara Trump this week vowed that "every penny" at the RNC would go toward helping Trump.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-money-republicans-fear-trump-162833361.html

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Of course he will.

He thinks it's his slush fund, and that's why he wants to put his daughter-in-law at the head of it. Drumpf things the world owes him.

[hlthe2b]

2. Gee, ya think?

Captain Obvious has taken over the MSM, (just as Trump has taken over the R party) it appears.

[lindysalsagal]

3. ...

[LakeArenal]

4. I don't care. They bought him. They insist on keeping him.

[lapfog_1]

5. doesn't matter if he is out of funds or not

he is still going to raid the piggy bank that is the RNC campaign funds...

A lot of Senators and House members are going to be pissed. Too bad.

It reminds me of the parable of the scorpion and the frog.

[stopdiggin]

17. "Trump out of money" is one of those weird mental contortions

that people seemingly engage in when talking about Trump - while attempting to construct a story line (or indeed headline). I'm not sure what the definition of 'out of money' is suppose to refer to here - but it quite clearly has nothing to do with what the average person has in mind for the phrase.

So let's stick to the real part here - Trump will raid the RNC (or any other funds that he is capable of) - for the simple reason that Trump never uses his own money for anything, if there is any other option. (including just stiffing others for the bill - unfortunately it's a lot harder to stiff the federal government than it is contractors and small town rallies) But the larger point here being - Trump will always spend someone else's money ...

[Fla Dem]

6. LOL, why do you think he wants his Daughter in Law to head the RNC.

[GreenWave]

7. So they run out a criminal and whine about him robbing the RNC.

Cry me a river.

[hatrack]

8. Not "fear" - "know" . . . .

This is your reward - to be used, looted, and discarded.

Have fun, you fucking clowns.

[NBachers]

9. "Misallocation" . . . "Misallocation" . . . They couldn't go and call it outright theft now could they?

Since they’re all morally and ethically bankrupt, they deserve to be financially bankrupt also. Then they all deserve to be catapulted out into the Asteroid Belt.

[bif]

10. Cry me a frikken river ayeholes!!

[IzzaNuDay]

11. GOP and RNC need to do the right thing

withdraw support for TFG. But we know they don’t have the testicular fortitude to do that! They would go into debt just to keep TFG afloat!

what are they afraid of?

[diane in sf]

12. Hurry up and end this vile party. tRump is the poison they happily embraced in the process of becoming fully

owned by Putin, the Mercers, the Kochs, other unsavory plutocrats and dirty energy interests, and a bunch of religious loons and racists. I forgot to mention misogynists…

[LiberalFighter]

13. I would call into question making the change before he is officially the nominee.

[calimary]

14. Hey, he could always start selling assets.

Or shares of those assets.

Mar-a-Lago would fetch some nice coin. So would Bedminster. And whatever portion of Trump Tower there might be. He could partner with any number of rich Russians who’d eagerly pay for attachments to that world-famous name, and on it’d go.

He’s learned to be very shrewd, skillfully sneaky, manipulative, and calculating in his decades of life.

[Doodley]

15. Why would a billionaire need to rely on GOP funds? Why don't his supporters or the media ever ask that question?

[stopdiggin]

18. doesn't NEED anyone else's funds

it's just that Trump is always happy to TAKE somebody else's (in fact anyone else's) funds. Absolutely standard MO - and has been his entire professional life.

[Doodley]

20. Good point. He's a taker, not a giver.

[Wounded Bear]

16. trump is a master at getting and using OPM*...

*Other People's Money in case you forgot.

[Progressive dog]

19. Trump owns the RNC

so he will get his way.