New Filings Reveal Trump's Legal Bills Are Costing Him Big

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Source: Daily Beast

Published May 22, 2024 4:28AM EDT


Even before his criminal hush money trial began last month, former President Donald Trump’s leadership PAC was burning through hundreds of thousands of dollars every day.

Now, according to Trump’s Save America leadership PAC’s most recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, the former president started this month at least seven figures in debt to his lawyers.

Trump’s Save America leadership PAC—which he has used as a legal slush fund—owes $1.1 million to five different law firms. That’s in addition to the nearly $3.3 million the committee doled out last month on legal consulting.

Save America owes its biggest debt, $837,000, to Blanche Law, the firm founded by Todd Blanche, with the bulk of that total accruing since the end of March. Blanche has served as lead counsel for the defense in the ex-president’s blockbuster hush money trial in Manhattan, and the committee paid Blanche’s firm $854,000 over the course of two weeks in April. Blanche is also lead counsel for Trump’s classified documents case in Florida and co-counsel for his federal election interference case in D.C.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. It's enough to blanch an orange. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Pro Bono politics. I still don't get how legal bills are paid by campaign funds. /nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Fundamentally, it requires donors who are suckers. . . . . nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. They aren't paid from campaign funds

The payments came from Trump’s PAC, which he can spend funds from as he likes, as long as he doesn’t “coordinate” with his official campaign.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. He will likely never

pay them, in any event.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes I think Trump will stiff Blanche.

Blanche knows it and that is one reason for his perpetual sour face.

[PatSeg]

10. Well, in fairness though

having Donald Trump as a client is more than enough to cause a perpetual sour face. That said, they knew what they were taking on in the first place. Trump's horrible reputation as a client preceded him.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Blanche has been very foolish.

He quit a very lucrative job with a respectable NY law firm.
Moved to Florida where Trump is his only client.

What could go wrong?

[PatSeg]

14. That doesn't say much about his judgment then

Seems that should disqualify him as a competent lawyer right off the bat.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Yep. He knowingly took a job with a mob boss.

No judgement and no self respect.

I wouldn't hire him to help me with a small claims court case.

[PatSeg]

16. He'll end up in the Trump discard pile

When Trump is done with people, they're pretty much finished.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Trump destroys everything he touches.

[PatSeg]

19. Absolutely, it is his legacy

[IronLionZion]

6. Then they can sue him, adding more legal fees

and somehow he'll sucker his idiot supporters and the RNC to pay it for him.

That grifter Elena Cardone's GoFundMe is above $2 million now
https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-trump-raise-the-settlement

[Fiendish Thingy]

9. Most of his lawyers are on retainers, paid in advance

Not sure why Blanche apparently isnt.

[Turbineguy]

7. His rubes will pay.

[cannabis_flower]

11. Bigly

It autocorrected to bigot on first try. Of course!

[hibbing]

13. How much is he and his family skimming off the top of donations n/t

[calimary]

20. Probably at least 20-30 percent.

Maybe more. Who’s checking?

[Torchlight]

18. This calls for a brand new Limited-Edition-Piece-of-Crap-Mr. trump-Memorabilia.

Snotted Tissues, guaranteed to contain Mr.trump's own Effluvia for only $89.99 (and a free MyPillow thrown in for good measure if you act now).