Bikers for Trump, the group Donald Trump once bragged would get “tough” on his political enemies, is looking weak on its balance sheet.
Very.
A news Federal Election Commission filing indicates Bikers for Trump is more than $50,000 in debt with less than $2,900 in available cash, as of December 31.
What began as motorcycle riders supporting a political candidate morphed into bikers serving as a self-styled security force for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign events.
By 2017, Bikers for Trump established a federal political action committee and began raising money. Trump personally visited with Bikers for Trump as president. Chris Cox, the organization’s founder, has a photo with Trump in the Oval Office featured on his Facebook page.
But today, the Bikers for Trump website is woefully out of date, with a plea on its homepage to “draft” Trump for president in 2024. (Trump announced he was running in November 2022.)
The Bikers for Trump PAC timeline on X, formerly Twitter, hasn’t had a post since September 2022, although the Bikers for Trump page on Facebook features recent posts lauding the former president.
Cox couldn’t be reached for comment. A voicemail message left at a phone number on one of the group’s FEC filings was not immediately returned. The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to Wednesday’s FEC filing, Bikers for Trump owes $50,022 to Infocision Inc., of Akron, Ohio, a call center company with a political fundraising service.
Bikers for Trump reported $7,690 worth of income for the second half of 2023.
More than $2,000 of that came from Right Country Lists of Alexandria, Va., a company that sells access to mailing and text lists.
Just two people contributed more than $200 to Bikers for Trump during the second half of 2023, according to the organization’s financial disclosure.
Its biggest single expense during the second half of 2023: $1,600 in salary payments to Cox.
