The RNC Is Paying Trump's Legal Fees!

The "billionaire" is using Republican donor money to pay his legal woes.

Civil war within the Republican Party is a coming.

Ronna McDaniel resigned from the RNC. She confirms she will be a commentator on NBC and MSNBC. I expect McDaniel to become a member of the Never Trump club.

Piss in the pocket, the Republican donor money that is supposed to help elected candidates from all the states and territories is going to help former president Donald J. Trump pay off E. Jean Carroll and the state of New York.

New chairman Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump at first denied that RNC coffers will foot his legal expenses. It was confirmed that some of the donations will assist in Trump's legal fights in federal and state court. Not to mention, he is still liable for many of his former supporters who were arrested during the U.S. Capitol riots.

More than 60 people have been fired in recent days, including senior staff. Trump clinched the party’s nomination for the general election, and the layoffs signal that change is coming to the party as it gears up to take on President Biden in the fall.

Whatley justified the layoffs as the party “realigning the committee to make sure that we are focused on coming out of the primary.”

“We now have a presumptive nominee and it is absolutely essential for us to make sure that our programs and our campaign efforts are aligned with the president’s,” he said.

A major question moving forward is if the RNC will fund Trump’s spiraling legal bills; the former president has been ordered to pay more than $500 million in fines. He faces 91 felony charges across four indictments.

Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was elected co-chair of the RNC alongside Whatley. In the past, she said she would spend “every single penny” of the RNC’s funds to help her father-in-law win reelection.

Trump's new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee is directing donations to his campaign and a political action committee that has been paying Trump's legal bills before the RNC receives a cut, according to a fundraising invitation obtained by The Associated Press.

Trump ripping off Republicans donors.

The unorthodox diversion of funds to the Save America PAC makes it more likely that Republican donors could see their money go to Trump's lawyers, who have received at least $76 million over the last two years to defend him against four felony indictments and multiple civil cases. Some Republicans are already troubled that Trump's takeover of the RNC could shortchange the cash-strapped party.

Trump has invited high-dollar donors to Palm Beach, Florida, for an April 6 fundraiser that comes as his fundraising trails that of President Joe Biden and national Democrats. The invitation's fine print says donations to the Trump 47 Committee will first be used to give the maximum amount allowed under federal law to Trump's campaign. Anything left over from the donation next goes toward a maximum contribution to Save America, and then anything left from there goes to the RNC and then to state political parties.

Before the RNC and state political parties would see a cut of large donations, $6,600 would go to the Trump campaign, and $5,000 would go to the Save America PAC — which has been footing his legal bills.

Adav Noti, the executive director of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said that is a break from fundraising norms. Usually, Noti said, candidates prioritize raising cash that can be spent directly on campaign activity. Save America, on the other hand, is structured as a "leadership PAC" and thus barred from spending directly on Trump's own campaign activities. Legal spending made up 85% of Save America's total operating expenses during the first two months of this year, roughly the same as 2023, when such expenses were about 89%. It has spent $8.5 million on legal fees so far this year.

Trump's political operation is struggling to catch up to Biden on fundraising and organization. His main campaign account and the Save America PAC reported raising a combined $15.9 million in February and ended the month with more than $37 million on hand, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission Wednesday night.