Trump's legal fees are sky-high. An elaborate PAC scheme is helping pay them -- for now
Mar 24, 2024 View Original Article
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "Trump and the RNC:" | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Trump led Biden by two percentage points in a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll March 13 poll." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Since Wednesday, Trump's main fundraising arm has sent messages to supporters saying, Democrats want to seize my properties, referring to New York Attorney General Letitia James' ability to seize his personal assets if he fails to pay the $454 million judgment in the Trump Organization case.To stave off collection while he appeals that verdict, Trump is required to put up the $454 million or a bond for it by Monday, which his lawyers described as a practical impossibility." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The Jan. 6 Committee dinged Trump for fundraising for an Official Election Defense Fund in the days after the 2020 election, when the fund didn't exist and instead went to Save America." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But Trump has more recently used his legal issues to ask his supporters for money, with the money going to a fundraising vehicle that currently pours into his 2024 campaign and Save America." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The Democratic National Committee, which is helping re-elect Biden, also continues to outpace the Republican National Committee, where Trump loyalists have taken hold." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Lara Trump says Republicans are willing to pay Donald Trump's legal billsGoing forward, Trump will need a new fundraising scheme to pay his legal bills." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "I think both sides are going to have a lot of money, but if Trump has to divert a lot of his resources to his legal problems that's money that's not going to be spent on getting out the vote, said Conant, who worked on U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign in 2016." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Save America, started days after Trump lost the 2020 election, is a type of fund called a leadership PAC that can only accept $5,000 per election cycle from each donor, but has few restrictions on how it spends money." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "While public records can't say what, specifically, law firms are being paid to do, records show Save America has paid more than 70 different lawyers and law firms, and many are listed on court paperwork representing Trump in his civil and criminal cases." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "The numbers show that Biden's campaign is sitting on $37.5 million more cash than Trump's, meaning that if the former president hadn't spent more than $64 million on legal bills, and had instead put the money in his campaign account, he would have more money in the bank than the current president." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "It's more money than MAGA Inc. has spent on independent expenditures, such as advertisements for Trump and against opponents like South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, since it started in 2022." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "The enormous legal bills have caused Trump to fall behind in 2024 campaign fundraising, both in his own funds and the funds of the Republican National Committee, which is now under pressure to help Trump out of his legal jeopardy.Republican consultant Alex Conant said money matters less in presidential politics than it used to." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "President Joe Biden's campaign raised $21.3 million in February and spent $6.3 million, increasing its cash from $56 million at the end of January to $71 million at the end of February." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Biden's campaign aounced this week that it raised $53 million through its various committees and the Democratic National Committee in February and had $155 million in available cash." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "In the past, Save America's highest spending involved audio-visual expenses for Trump's public appearances, and donations to other groups, including MAGA Inc." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Trump and the RNC:" | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "In the same time period, Trump's campaign collected $10.9 million and spent $7.8 million, increasing its cash from $30.5 million in January to $33.5 million." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Trump led Biden by two percentage points in a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll March 13 poll." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Trump led Biden by two percentage points in a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll March 13 poll." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Since Wednesday, Trump's main fundraising arm has sent messages to supporters saying, Democrats want to seize my properties, referring to New York Attorney General Letitia James' ability to seize his personal assets if he fails to pay the $454 million judgment in the Trump Organization case.To stave off collection while he appeals that verdict, Trump is required to put up the $454 million or a bond for it by Monday, which his lawyers described as a practical impossibility." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Since Wednesday, Trump's main fundraising arm has sent messages to supporters saying, Democrats want to seize my properties, referring to New York Attorney General Letitia James' ability to seize his personal assets if he fails to pay the $454 million judgment in the Trump Organization case.To stave off collection while he appeals that verdict, Trump is required to put up the $454 million or a bond for it by Monday, which his lawyers described as a practical impossibility." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The Jan. 6 Committee dinged Trump for fundraising for an Official Election Defense Fund in the days after the 2020 election, when the fund didn't exist and instead went to Save America." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "It will divvy what it raises it among the Trump campaign, Save America, the Republican National Committee, a PAC called the Presidential Republican Nominee Fund 2024 and Republican committees in 37 states, Guam and the District of Columbia." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Trump's campaign did not aounce joint fundraising committee numbers." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But Trump has more recently used his legal issues to ask his supporters for money, with the money going to a fundraising vehicle that currently pours into his 2024 campaign and Save America." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The Democratic National Committee, which is helping re-elect Biden, also continues to outpace the Republican National Committee, where Trump loyalists have taken hold." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Lara Trump says Republicans are willing to pay Donald Trump's legal billsGoing forward, Trump will need a new fundraising scheme to pay his legal bills." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Lara Trump says Republicans are willing to pay Donald Trump's legal billsGoing forward, Trump will need a new fundraising scheme to pay his legal bills." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The transfers have kept the fund, Save America, afloat as it bled tens of millions of dollars on legal bills in the year since a New York grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump, the first in a wave of criminal indictments and civil judgments against him." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "I think both sides are going to have a lot of money, but if Trump has to divert a lot of his resources to his legal problems that's money that's not going to be spent on getting out the vote, said Conant, who worked on U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign in 2016." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "I think both sides are going to have a lot of money, but if Trump has to divert a lot of his resources to his legal problems that's money that's not going to be spent on getting out the vote, said Conant, who worked on U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign in 2016." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Save America, started days after Trump lost the 2020 election, is a type of fund called a leadership PAC that can only accept $5,000 per election cycle from each donor, but has few restrictions on how it spends money." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But the election likely will be decided by a small number of votes, so a significant spending advantage could make a difference and Trump's legal issues are a distraction and a drain on resources, he added." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "While public records can't say what, specifically, law firms are being paid to do, records show Save America has paid more than 70 different lawyers and law firms, and many are listed on court paperwork representing Trump in his civil and criminal cases." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The numbers show that Biden's campaign is sitting on $37.5 million more cash than Trump's, meaning that if the former president hadn't spent more than $64 million on legal bills, and had instead put the money in his campaign account, he would have more money in the bank than the current president." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The numbers show that Biden's campaign is sitting on $37.5 million more cash than Trump's, meaning that if the former president hadn't spent more than $64 million on legal bills, and had instead put the money in his campaign account, he would have more money in the bank than the current president." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "It's more money than MAGA Inc. has spent on independent expenditures, such as advertisements for Trump and against opponents like South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, since it started in 2022." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "It's more money than MAGA Inc. has spent on independent expenditures, such as advertisements for Trump and against opponents like South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, since it started in 2022." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "After his March indictment, Trump's fundraising arm sent out a photoshopped fake mugshot in an email seeking donations." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "The enormous legal bills have caused Trump to fall behind in 2024 campaign fundraising, both in his own funds and the funds of the Republican National Committee, which is now under pressure to help Trump out of his legal jeopardy.Republican consultant Alex Conant said money matters less in presidential politics than it used to." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The enormous legal bills have caused Trump to fall behind in 2024 campaign fundraising, both in his own funds and the funds of the Republican National Committee, which is now under pressure to help Trump out of his legal jeopardy.Republican consultant Alex Conant said money matters less in presidential politics than it used to." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
55% : Trump and the RNC:52% : Trump led Biden by two percentage points in a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll March 13 poll.
50% : Since Wednesday, Trump's main fundraising arm has sent messages to supporters saying, "Democrats want to seize my properties," referring to New York Attorney General Letitia James' ability to seize his personal assets if he fails to pay the $454 million judgment in the Trump Organization case.To stave off collection while he appeals that verdict, Trump is required to put up the $454 million or a bond for it by Monday, which his lawyers described as a "practical impossibility."
49% : The Jan. 6 Committee dinged Trump for fundraising for an "Official Election Defense Fund" in the days after the 2020 election, when the fund didn't exist and instead went to Save America.
40% : But Trump has more recently used his legal issues to ask his supporters for money, with the money going to a fundraising vehicle that currently pours into his 2024 campaign and Save America.
40% : The Democratic National Committee, which is helping re-elect Biden, also continues to outpace the Republican National Committee, where Trump loyalists have taken hold.
39% : Lara Trump says Republicans are willing to pay Donald Trump's legal billsGoing forward, Trump will need a new fundraising scheme to pay his legal bills.
36% : "I think both sides are going to have a lot of money, but if Trump has to divert a lot of his resources to his legal problems that's money that's not going to be spent on getting out the vote," said Conant, who worked on U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's presidential campaign in 2016.
35% : Save America, started days after Trump lost the 2020 election, is a type of fund called a "leadership PAC" that can only accept $5,000 per election cycle from each donor, but has few restrictions on how it spends money.
34% : While public records can't say what, specifically, law firms are being paid to do, records show Save America has paid more than 70 different lawyers and law firms, and many are listed on court paperwork representing Trump in his civil and criminal cases.
33% : The numbers show that Biden's campaign is sitting on $37.5 million more cash than Trump's, meaning that if the former president hadn't spent more than $64 million on legal bills, and had instead put the money in his campaign account, he would have more money in the bank than the current president.
32% : It's more money than MAGA Inc. has spent on independent expenditures, such as advertisements for Trump and against opponents like South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, since it started in 2022.
27% : The enormous legal bills have caused Trump to fall behind in 2024 campaign fundraising, both in his own funds and the funds of the Republican National Committee, which is now under pressure to help Trump out of his legal jeopardy.Republican consultant Alex Conant said money matters less in presidential politics than it used to.
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