Even by the standards of Trump’s legal slush fund, February was a brutal month that underscored the historic financial pressure on his 2024 campaign.
—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., 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.
The latest filings show the staggering extent to which Trump’s donor resources are being diverted to his legal fights at a moment when he needs to rapidly scale up a national campaign effort—which Biden is doing thanks to an impressive fundraising blitz. Those cases more than devoured the $5 million partial refund check that Save America has been receiving from the allied “MAGA Inc.” super PAC each month to help offset the increasing legal burden. Trump demanded the unprecedentedas his court troubles mounted last year, but even that lifeline won’t last forever—it’s on schedule to be fully returned by the end of May.
The Trump campaign also submitted its February campaign finance report on Wednesday, listing around $933,000 in legal payouts. The campaign committee—the most flush group in Trump’s fundraising flotilla—was sitting on $33.5 million at the end of the month, the filing shows.
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