In the month of February, Donald Trump finally neared the start of his general election campaign against Joe Biden—while burning through his political operation’s coffers for even more cash to support his legal defenses.

On Wednesday night, Trump’s “Save America” leadership PAC—the political committee that now functions primarily as his legal slush fund—reported paying lawyers $5.6 million last month, according to Federal Election Commission filings. That’s well above the $5 million total the PAC raised in the same period.

The PAC also deferred payment on more than half a million dollars in additional fees to Alina Habba, who represented Trump in both of his milestone court losses in New York this year, while racking up a $645,000 bill to a company tasked with managing legal records in his business fraud case.

  • @jordanlundM
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    511 year ago

    230K a day x 29 days is only $6,670,000, or 1.43% of his $464M bond. :)

    To hit half of $464M they would need to be burning $8M a day for 29 days.

    • FuglyDuck
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      371 year ago

      Right. I should not math before caff.

      lol.

    • TWeaK
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      51 year ago

      The article says the total was more than $6.9 million, or $238,000 a day. The title is apparently heavily rounded down.

      However I’m not sure if that’s quite accurate as it does mention deferred payments. The main lawyer fees paid were $5.6 million, which alone is more than the $5 million the PAC raised that month.