Is Trump doing campaign rallies to raise money for legal fees?

[Louis1895]

Maybe this has been discussed already but isn't it too early to start raising money for re-election for president? Could it be that Trump is doing all of this "campaigning" to raise money to be used for his future legal fees?

Of course, I know he likes the free TV coverage and the adoring crowds,

And then the puppeteer Putin probably ordered him to cause as much division and rancor as possible.

[BigmanPigman]

1. He and his family could go bankrupt from

legal fees alone. That is what happened to Clinton.

[jmowreader]

11. But it won't have the same happy ending as the Clintons'

The Clintons have life stories people want to pay to read and to hear about, and they capitalized on that.

Trump ALSO had a life story people wanted to pay to read, but he published it in 1987. Anyone willing to pay to read about Trump already has a copy of The Art of the Deal. So, the only Gravy Train Trump can look forward to comes in 25-pound bags.

[bettyellen]

2. Yes- campaign money has been spent on lawyers for himself and his son too.

Aside from being able to use it as a slush fund, it's giving him the appearance of working when he is not.

[Angry Dragon]

5. I believe that is illegal

https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/can-campaign-funds-pay-criminal-defense-lawyer-maybe


The trouble for Donald Jr. is that in order to tap into the campaign funds to pay for his lawyer, he must assert that his legal costs were generated by his role in the campaign. But this limits the range of his other defenses because this concession forecloses any defense that the famous meeting in Trump Tower with Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and the Russians wasn’t a campaign event. He can’t have it both ways. Either it was a campaign event which opens him up to possible liability for violations of the ban on foreign solicitations or it was not a campaign event and he owes the Trump campaign $50,000 for his legal fees.

[bettyellen]

8. Yeah, their grifter habit of skimming is going to bite them on the ass.

[Angry Dragon]

9. one can hope

[tanyev]

3. Officially declaring his candidacy as early as he did would allow him to collect campaign donations,

but I doubt the rallies themselves are money makers. They are purely for ego stroking.

[Warpy]

4. He's mostly stoking his huge, fragile ego

Applause and cheers are his drug of choice. Withdraw them, and he will be a broken man.

Putin didn't have to order him to do anything, he just got this ignorant, raging narcissist into office. He knew what would happen.

[FM123]

6. "He's mostly stroking his huge fragile ego"

With his tiny tiny hands!

[Warpy]

12. No, stoking

It takes a hell of a lot of steam to keep that thing puffed up that big.

[FM123]

13. Hahaha 😀

Lil Freudian slip there...

[Warpy]

14. You mean Fraudulent slip, I'm sure.

[FM123]

15. Yes, that's what I meant 😀

[blaze]

7. He can control the crowd a little better

As a campaign rally, it doesn't have to be open to the public. You have to buy a ticket.

[Gothmog]

10. Is water wet?