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As former President Donald Trump's legal woes mount, the line between his criminal defense and his 2024 presidential campaign is blurring, a political and financial muddying that The Washington Post projects will only worsen as multiple prosecutions continues to dominate his time, resources and messaging.
Trump's appeals to stay out of prison on social media, in rally speeches and in interviews have become a mainstay of his candidacy, as evidenced by his frequent claims online that the criminal investigations against him are "witch hunts" that constitute election interference.
His criticism of his indictments and the agencies investigating him have subsequently drawn the support of much of the Republican base despite — and, in some cases, because of — the severity of his charges.
"What is likely to come is a campaign like the country has never seen before: A candidate juggling multiple criminal indictments while slashing the Department of Justice and his opponents, shuttling between early primary states for rallies and courtrooms for hearings, and spending his supporters' money on both millions of dollars' worth of campaign ads and burgeoning legal bills," according to the Post.
Many of Trump's aides have also been placed in challenging positions because they could also be called as witnesses against him in trials. Whether Trump, who announced on Tuesday that he received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith in the federal probe of Jan. 6, wins or loses the 2024 race could determine whether he really could face prison time.
"I didn't know practically what a subpoena was and grand juries and all of this — now I'm like becoming an expert," Trump said during a Tuesday speech to the Linn County Republican Party in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "I have no choice because we have to. It's a disgrace. If you say something about an election, they want to put you in jail for the rest of your life."
Just over half the money Trump raised last quarter went to a campaign-affiliated political action committee that is covering his legal bills. According to the latest report to the Federal Election Commission, of the more than $35 million raised between March and June, the campaign received $17.7 million. The remainder went to the Save America PAC, which will report its latest finances on July 31 but had reportedly been spending millions on attorneys for Trump and his allies amid his bevy of ongoing cases, FEC disclosures show.
"A lot of money is going to legal and people who don't do much, and not a lot is left over to do marketing and advertising," one anonymous Trump advisor told the Post. "A lot of the money we're raising is just going to legal."
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung reasoned that the political and legal efforts are merging because Trump and his supporters perceive the prosecutions as a President Biden-led move to block him from the Oval Office.
"They see another political indictment or target letter and they know this is just the weaponized Biden Justice Department going after President Trump," Cheung said. "It solidifies in their mind what the President has been saying for all these months. So much of the legal messaging is political messaging and so much of political messaging is legal messaging."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-spending-much-donor-cash-185816241.html
As former President Donald Trump's legal woes mount, the line between his criminal defense and his 2024 presidential campaign is blurring, a political and financial muddying that The Washington Post projects will only worsen as multiple prosecutions continues to dominate his time, resources and messaging.
Trump's appeals to stay out of prison on social media, in rally speeches and in interviews have become a mainstay of his candidacy, as evidenced by his frequent claims online that the criminal investigations against him are "witch hunts" that constitute election interference.
His criticism of his indictments and the agencies investigating him have subsequently drawn the support of much of the Republican base despite — and, in some cases, because of — the severity of his charges.
"What is likely to come is a campaign like the country has never seen before: A candidate juggling multiple criminal indictments while slashing the Department of Justice and his opponents, shuttling between early primary states for rallies and courtrooms for hearings, and spending his supporters' money on both millions of dollars' worth of campaign ads and burgeoning legal bills," according to the Post.
Many of Trump's aides have also been placed in challenging positions because they could also be called as witnesses against him in trials. Whether Trump, who announced on Tuesday that he received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith in the federal probe of Jan. 6, wins or loses the 2024 race could determine whether he really could face prison time.
"I didn't know practically what a subpoena was and grand juries and all of this — now I'm like becoming an expert," Trump said during a Tuesday speech to the Linn County Republican Party in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "I have no choice because we have to. It's a disgrace. If you say something about an election, they want to put you in jail for the rest of your life."
Just over half the money Trump raised last quarter went to a campaign-affiliated political action committee that is covering his legal bills. According to the latest report to the Federal Election Commission, of the more than $35 million raised between March and June, the campaign received $17.7 million. The remainder went to the Save America PAC, which will report its latest finances on July 31 but had reportedly been spending millions on attorneys for Trump and his allies amid his bevy of ongoing cases, FEC disclosures show.
"A lot of money is going to legal and people who don't do much, and not a lot is left over to do marketing and advertising," one anonymous Trump advisor told the Post. "A lot of the money we're raising is just going to legal."
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung reasoned that the political and legal efforts are merging because Trump and his supporters perceive the prosecutions as a President Biden-led move to block him from the Oval Office.
"They see another political indictment or target letter and they know this is just the weaponized Biden Justice Department going after President Trump," Cheung said. "It solidifies in their mind what the President has been saying for all these months. So much of the legal messaging is political messaging and so much of political messaging is legal messaging."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-spending-much-donor-cash-185816241.html
