China Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 Trump team launching legal defense fund to help pay legal bills Former President Donald Trump's team is launching a legal defense fund aimed at helping to handle the onslaught of legal bills the former president and his allies face as the investigations into him mount, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. On Sunday, ABC News reported that a PAC supporting Trump spent more than $40 million on legal costs in the first half of 2023 to defend Trump, his advisers and others, sources familiar with a filing detailing the costs told ABC. The filing from the Save America PAC is expected to be released on Monday. For now, the legal fund is not meant to cover Trump's own bills, the sources said. The legal defense fund will be called the Patriot Legal Defense Fund Inc., the sources said. It is expected to be led by Michael Glassner, who has previously served in multiple senior roles on Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns. Lynne Patton, who has been a close aide to Trump at both the Trump Organization and in Trump's administration, will also be involved in the fund. A Trump spokesperson provided a statement about the reasons for the defense fund. “[A]nd to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, a new legal defense fund will help pay for their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment," the statement read. Click on the link for the full article It's amazing to me how many people are willing to throw away their money to pay the legal bills of a corrupt billionaire and his cadre of criminal supporters and associates. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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@DCGoldPants Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 16 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said: This clown.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 21 hours ago, China said: Trump team launching legal defense fund to help pay legal bills Former President Donald Trump's team is launching a legal defense fund aimed at helping to handle the onslaught of legal bills the former president and his allies face as the investigations into him mount, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. On Sunday, ABC News reported that a PAC supporting Trump spent more than $40 million on legal costs in the first half of 2023 to defend Trump, his advisers and others, sources familiar with a filing detailing the costs told ABC. The filing from the Save America PAC is expected to be released on Monday. For now, the legal fund is not meant to cover Trump's own bills, the sources said. The legal defense fund will be called the Patriot Legal Defense Fund Inc., the sources said. It is expected to be led by Michael Glassner, who has previously served in multiple senior roles on Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns. Lynne Patton, who has been a close aide to Trump at both the Trump Organization and in Trump's administration, will also be involved in the fund. A Trump spokesperson provided a statement about the reasons for the defense fund. “[A]nd to protect these innocent people from financial ruin and prevent their lives from being completely destroyed, a new legal defense fund will help pay for their legal fees to ensure they have representation against unlawful harassment," the statement read. Click on the link for the full article It's amazing to me how many people are willing to throw away their money to pay the legal bills of a corrupt billionaire and his cadre of criminal supporters and associates. Trump’s New Legal Fund Is a Lean, Mean Grift Machine When allies of former President Donald Trump launched his new legal defense fund, they created a group with few restrictions on how much it can raise, even fewer on how much it can spend, and the ability for deep-pocketed donors to remain anonymous. In essence, Trump’s legal costs have gotten so high that he’s been forced to find a new way around campaign finance laws—a route that will allow him to draw massive donations from megadonors who could not otherwise write checks large enough to replenish his attorney costs. While the plans for launching the group, called the “Patriot Legal Defense Fund,” were first reported on Sunday by The New York Times, it turns out the entity was created on July 19. That filing, however, won’t be found in the campaign finance database maintained by the Federal Election Commission, where political campaigns typically register. Instead, the PLDF was registered with the IRS as a special type of political nonprofit under section 527 of the tax code—as what’s loosely known as a “527” or “shadow” group. Trump has reportedly asserted for years that only guilty people open legal funds. And while that describes a number of convicted former political advisers—George Papadopoulos, Roger Stone, and Mike Flynn, for instance—others haven’t been found guilty of crimes, like Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), or even Trump himself. The new fund reportedly won’t pay Trump’s own lawyer costs. But it will float allies, including possible witnesses in any number of legal threats facing the former president. And yet experts said the shadiest, most notable part of the legal defense fund was not that it would pay for lawyers for potential witnesses against Trump. That part isn’t all that new. The Trump team reportedly worked hand-in-hand with CPAC chair Matt Schlapp’s “First Amendment Fund” earlier this year to provide legal help to Jan. 6 committee subpoena targets, and Trump’s “Save America” leadership PAC also bankrolled handpicked attorneys for Jan. 6 witnesses. Instead, experts pointed to the group’s unique tax status opening an array of new fundraising opportunities for Trump as the most unsettling element—including for unlimited donations from individuals and corporations. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 What's the phrase? Throwing good money after bad? Oh no.. it's "Go for it, idiots. Drown him in your money and he's still going to **** you over as he goes to jail anyway". ~Bang 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 He's got to start that new grift for his legal fees, because those fees are burning through his campaign cash: Trump’s $100 million PAC has burned through nearly all of its cash Former President Donald Trump’s once-formidable and lucrative political action committee is down to $3 million on hand while committees allied with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Joe Biden have well over $100 million combined ready to deploy, new data shows. Trump’s Save America PAC raised over $15 million in the first half of 2023, spent over $30 million and now has about $3.6 million on hand, according to Federal Election Commission records. The committee came into 2023 in a strong position, raising over $100 million in 2022 and finishing with $18 million on hand. An NBC News analysis of the filings shows that Save America spent north of $20 million on legal fees, with payments going to more than 40 different law firms. Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 Mother****er, you know it isn’t. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 6 minutes ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said: Mother****er, you know it isn’t. Makes it worse that Geraldo has a J.D.. Not knowing that a criminal process is different from an impeachment is just bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfitzo53 Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 5 hours ago, The Evil Genius said: Makes it worse that Geraldo has a J.D.. Not knowing that a criminal process is different from an impeachment is just bad. Oh come on, he knows. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balki1867 Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 On 7/31/2023 at 9:19 PM, Cooked Crack said: Lol, there’s a history with public swimming pools (or the lack of them). When public services started getting integrated during the civil rights movement, many locales went out of their way to shut down public swimming pools to avoid the ignominy of having white kids share the same chlorinated pee water as their black and brown counterparts. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 Curb stomp him and then say "psyche!" ~Bang 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 Republicans don’t dare criticize Trump over Jan. 6. Their silence fuels his bid for the White House When Senate Leader Mitch McConnell rose to announce his vote to acquit Donald Trump of impeachment charges in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Republican assured the public the former president would have his day in court. “He didn’t get away with anything yet — yet,” McConnell vowed. “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one.” But as Trump prepares to appear Thursday on federal charges that he orchestrated an unprecedented effort to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, the Republican Party’s 2024 front-runner for the White House faces no such dire warnings or recriminations from fellow Republicans. It’s a piercing silence that commands attention as Trump towers over the field of Republican contenders for the presidency. Gone are those who once stood up to Trump. Instead, the party Trump leads has essentially given up on criticizing his actions, countering his impulses or putting a check on his accumulating power. Scholars of authoritarian history warn it is a classic example of an eroding democracy. “He’ll do it again,” said a new ad from the Republican Accountability Project, an advocacy group. “Unless he faces consequences.” In the indictment, the prosecution said Trump had a right to challenge the results. But it said Trump repeated his knowingly false claims to give them legitimacy and “create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.” At the time, McConnell put it similarly. This week, McConnell was silent. Click on the link for the full article The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. They aren't good men that are doing nothing, they are evil themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 They are complicit. They are the enablers. ~Bang 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted August 3, 2023 Share Posted August 3, 2023 I said at the time that the GOP would choose to continue pushing the "stolen election" button. Because it would be their "cover story" for the voter suppression efforts they would be pushing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 Wait a minute, isn’t this the guy who was just crying in that other video. Did I misunderstand that one? I thought he was lamenting the fact that he’d finally realized that he’s a fool who fell for a bunch of lies. Was it actually that he was upset with Rudy and Jason Miller for not lying under oath? 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 Blaze TV? Is he stoned? Or is he Blazing his Glory? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 Occam's Razor would suggest he's just a grifting asshole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long n Left Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 Judging this Deace guy just by his T shirt and overall look, I'd say he makes most of his decisions based on the roll of a 20 sided die. Likely scenario: Glenn Beck kicked his ass and told him to never threaten the Golden Goose again, and to get back out there and apologize in a way that will make them money. ~Bang 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabbyrwock Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 40 minutes ago, Bang said: Judging this Deace guy just by his T shirt and overall look, I'd say he makes most of his decisions based on the roll of a 20 sided die. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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