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Trump political PACs spent $2.3mm to defend Ivanka in civil fraud trials. Give until it hurts people. A "billionaire" needs your money to pay for his daughter's fraud trial defense! MAGA!
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Robert Maguire, the research director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a campaign-finance watchdog organization, said Trump had deceived Save America's donors for years.
"In 2020, he raised tens of millions of dollars for the PAC by making baseless claims of a stolen election and casting the PAC as an 'Official Election Defense Fund,'" Maguire told Business Insider. "Since then, the committee has largely become a vehicle for paying his, his family's, and his associates' legal bills while also channeling tens of millions to a pro-Trump super PAC."
In 2023, Save America disbursed a total of $1,303,667.11 to the law firm Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders and $1,042,479 to the firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel, & Frederick.
Donald Trump paid more than $2.3 million in donor money to law firms helping Ivanka Trump with her legal problems last year
The lawyers represented Ivanka Trump in the New York civil fraud lawsuit over the Trump Organization's finances.
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- A political action group controlled by Donald Trump paid millions to law firms representing Ivanka Trump.
- Two firms representing her in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial got $2.3 million last year.
- Another law firm repping Trump family members got more than $5 million.
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A political action group controlled by Donald Trump has spent millions of dollars on law firms representing his adult children for their personal legal problems.
The Save America PAC spent a combined $2.3 million in 2023 for two law firms that represented Ivanka Trump, his elder daughter, according to a Business Insider review of Federal Election Commission records.
The PAC spent an additional $5.3 million on the law firm Robert & Robert, which represented his three eldest children — Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. — as well as the Trump Organization in an array of lawsuits that have no apparent relation to Trump's campaign to retake the presidency in the 2024 election.
Trump founded Save America shortly after he lost the 2020 presidential election. He's used it as is primary fundraising vehicle, often sending out messages making false claims about the 2020 election and his legal problems to convince donors to give it money.
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Much of the PAC's expenses go to legal fees, with Trump battling criminal indictments and civil lawsuits over his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, claims of sexual misconduct and defamation, and allegations of financial misconduct through his company, as well as suing media organizations for what he claims is unfair coverage.
Robert Maguire, the research director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a campaign-finance watchdog organization, said Trump had deceived Save America's donors for years.
"In 2020, he raised tens of millions of dollars for the PAC by making baseless claims of a stolen election and casting the PAC as an 'Official Election Defense Fund,'" Maguire told Business Insider. "Since then, the committee has largely become a vehicle for paying his, his family's, and his associates' legal bills while also channeling tens of millions to a pro-Trump super PAC."
In 2023, Save America disbursed a total of $1,303,667.11 to the law firm Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders and $1,042,479 to the firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel, & Frederick.
