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dalton99a

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Wed Mar 27, 2024, 12:05 PM Mar 27

How Trump Moved Money to Pay $100 Million in Legal Bills

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/27/us/politics/trump-cases-legal-fund.html

https://archive.is/FWR7i

How Trump Moved Money to Pay $100 Million in Legal Bills
By Molly Cook Escobar, Albert Sun and Shane Goldmacher
March 26, 2024



Former President Donald J. Trump has spent more than $100 million since leaving office, on lawyers and other costs related to fending off various investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials, according to a New York Times review of federal records.

The remarkable sum means that Mr. Trump has averaged more than $90,000 a day in legal-related costs for more than three years — none of it paid for with his own money.

Instead, the former president has relied almost entirely on donations made in an attempt to fight the results of the 2020 election.

Now, those accounts are nearly drained, and Mr. Trump faces a choice: begin to pay his own substantial legal fees or find another way to finance them.

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How Trump Moved Money to Pay $100 Million in Legal Bills (Original Post) dalton99a Mar 27 OP
Now we know how much it costs to screw over the US legal system. Irish_Dem Mar 27 #1
"none of it paid for with his own money."... Give to stick it to the libs. keithbvadu2 Mar 27 #2
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