# Trump, PACs, and legal fees **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843 **Category:** Politics & Elections **Tags:** trump **Created:** [July 31, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843 "2023-07-31T00:22:19Z") **Posts on this page:** 10 **Page:** 3
### Author: ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic) #### Post date: [February 18, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/41 "2024-02-18T18:31:30Z")
I hope the RNC listens to Lara Trump and spends every penny… and more… on Trump’s legal defense and judgements. I hope they take campaign money away from every single Republican candidate, federal and state, to shovel it down the bottomless Trump well of misfortune. ---
### Author: ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn) #### Post date: [February 18, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/42 "2024-02-18T18:35:38Z")
At the end of the 1992 movie _[Sneakers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film))_, a news report announces the bankruptcy of the Republican National Committee and (not coincidentally) anonymous donations to Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and the United Negro College Fund. I’m perfectly happy if instead the RNC bankrupts itself defending Trump. ---
### Author: ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb) #### Post date: [February 18, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/43 "2024-02-18T19:40:06Z")
I’d imagine that Republicans leaders who care about down ballot elections will be begging donors to switch their donations to campaign committees that Trump won’t control — NRSC, NRCC, leadership PACs, etc. Anything that goes to the RNC will line Trump’s pockets one way or another. ---
### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper) #### Post date: [April 21, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/44 "2024-04-21T18:01:39Z")
Politico reports that Trump’s super PAC has contributed $60 million to legal fees for Trump and his associates over the past year, but may be running low. [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/20/trump-legal-fees-spending-00153508](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/20/trump-legal-fees-spending-00153508) ---
### Author: ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic) #### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/45 "2024-04-22T00:16:42Z")
Oh no! Time to ramp up the Fleece-A-Rube machine. Or just raid the RNC coffers. ---
### Author: ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch) #### Post date: [April 22, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/46 "2024-04-22T01:01:51Z")
Imagine spending that much money and this is all you get for it. I wonder how far the hundred million or so of other people’s money that Trump has burned through thus far would go if given to people who have an actual need for it? Like how long could a Legal Aid clinic keep itself going for on a hundred million bucks? ---
### Author: ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy) #### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/47 "2024-04-24T21:28:04Z")
Is the money that pays Trump’s legal fees considered income to him? I’d certainly think it should be. ---
### Author: ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins) #### Post date: [April 27, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/48 "2024-04-27T15:33:17Z")
It should! ---
### Author: ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper) #### Post date: [September 5, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/49 "2024-09-05T01:08:45Z")
And another item, from the Brennan Centre for Justice: > **[Trump’s Use of Campaign Funds to Pay Legal Bills](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trumps-use-campaign-funds-pay-legal-bills)** > > Thanks to loopholes and lax enforcement, former president Trump is using campaign funds to pay almost all of his legal bills. ---
### Author: ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb) #### Post date: [October 23, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843/50 "2024-10-23T18:51:06Z")
PAC paying Trump’s legal fees has run out of cash — with $3M in debt. [https://www.rawstory.com/trump-legal-fees-super-pac/](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-legal-fees-super-pac/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pacs-and-legal-fees/987843.md?page=2)