Trump Has Conned His Supporters Into Paying His Legal Bills

There is always a con with Donald Trump - that's a lesson that his supporters seem either unwilling or unable to accept. But the same people flooding his Super PAC with money need to understand that they aren't paying for him to run for office - they are actually paying his legal fees to the tune of several hundred thousand per month. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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It was reported this past week by Politico that the Republican national committee, in spite of already spending 1.7, 5 million on Trump's legal fees, they are not under any circumstances going to be paying his legal fees for the, uh, DOJ investigation into the stolen documents. They have had enough. We ain't doing it. You gotta find a new way to pay for your bills. So Trump has said, all right, I don't know if y'all know this, but I got this save America political action committee down here. That's sitting on about a hundred million dollars. So if y'all aren't gonna pay my legal fees, I'm just gonna take it outta here. And in fact, last month alone, Donald Trump used $200,000 from his save America pack to pay for his legal fees. So far this year he's pulled over a million dollars out of the save America political action committee to pay for his legal bills.

So here's where things get interesting. First and foremost, it should be noted. That's not illegal, like totally legal for him to do that. Now it shouldn't be right. This is money. And this is the important part, right? This is money that is coming from small time donors out here throughout America, right? Mom and pop donors, hardcore mega fans who don't have much spare, but what they do have spare, they're sending it to save America. Cuz Trump is spamming them relentlessly with emails and text messages begging for money every day, multiple times a day. So they're sending what they can because they think this money of course is gonna be used to challenge the 2020 election results. Even though $0 of it. According to reports has been spent on election challenges. They think it's gonna be spent helping Donald Trump get Republicans elected. Well, he's not opening it up to other Republicans to use, which of course is causing a big issue in the Republican party right now, especially because Rick Scott lost all of the, uh, Republican national senatorial committees money, $145 million just gone under Rick Scott's leadership.

They need money. Trump has money. Trump won't share money. So he is not using it to help other Republicans. So these mom and pop donors out there are giving him money to pay for the legal fees of a billionaire who's in trouble because he's a moron. Now the big question I have is how is this not a form of fraud? Because you are raising money from these people. You're not telling them I need this money to pay for my lawyers. Instead, you're telling them other fantasy events like, oh, we need this money to fight the Democrats. We need this money to help Republicans. We need this money to challenge the election and people say, oh, okay. I like that thought here's my money.

You know, I'm either gonna send you a check. I'm gonna get online, fill it out, give you this money because I support the things you've told me you're gonna do. And then he turns around and doesn't do it. So how is that? Not fraud. I know our election laws or campaign finance law, screw, uh, excuse me. Are, are, are totally weak, totally ineffective, basically. Non-existent but there has to be something in there to prevent these rubes from continuing to get conned by people like Donald Trump, the guy claims to have $10 billion in the bank, he's worth $10 billion. And you mean to tell me that you have to screw over these, you know, middle Americans just to pay your legal fees. Well, we know you don't have to, but you're choosing to, and those folks need to know that I got no issue if they want to drive themselves into bankruptcy, given money to a con man.

But I do think every now and then it is worth warning them. What's happening with their money because it is not fair to them. Yes. We've warned them. Yes. We've warned them a million times, but still part of me, I guess, has a little bit of, uh, empathy for these individuals because they don't know any better and they should, but there's only so long that that's gonna go on. Right? There's only so far, we can stretch that empathy or the sympathy because of how many times we've, worned them. He is screwing you folks over. He is conning you and he's using all of your money to pay his legal fees so that he doesn't have to touch a dime from his own bank accounts.