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Donald Trump will host a candlelight dinner with his two adult sons at Mar-a-Lago to raise money to pay legal bills for his co-defendants in four criminal cases.

The fundraiser, which does not yet have a date or time scheduled, could raise between $500,000 to $1 million for the Patriot Legal Defense Fund, according to two sources familiar with the planning, and is supposed to operate alongside the Save America PAC that's primarily paying Trump's legal bills, reported The Messenger.

Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, issued a warning for those ensnared in legal battles with the former president that he isn't likely to help with legal bills.

On Tuesday, CNN's Abby Phillip asked Cohen about the expenses that can mount after working with Trump personally, given his own legal battles.

Former members of ex-President Donald Trump's legal team who were indicted along with Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for the alleged racketeering scheme to steal the 2020 election are crowd-sourcing money to pay for their defense expenses, Forbes Sara Dorn reports.

Jenna Ellis "has raised nearly $200,000 to pay for her legal expenses in his election interference case in Georgia—one of several co-defendants crowd-funding as Trump has reportedly given no indication he plans to help them financially," Dorn writes. "Ellis' legal team has raised more than $195,000 as of Tuesday to help pay for her legal expenses through the site GiveSendGo, where a description of her fundraiser says she is 'being targeted and the government is trying to criminalize the practice of law.'"

There have been a flurry of court filings and hearings on the 2020 election collusion case since a grand jury on Aug. 14 indicted the former Republican president and 18 of his supporters over allegations they illegally conspired to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia and several other states.

Defendants are scheduled to appear in Fulton County Superior Court on Wednesday for their arraignments, during which they will be formally read the criminal charges they are facing and enter a plea of guilty or not guilty.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani suggested that there could be "other crimes" that he has not been charged with after facing a criminal indictment and a defamation case in Georgia.

On Sunday, Giuliani spoke to Newsmax host Lidia Curanaj about a case where he was found liable for defaming Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Fox News anchor Gillian Turner reflected on the "downfall" of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani after he brought legal problems "upon himself."

During a Sunday discussion on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz asked Turner about the media coverage of Giuliani after a judge found him liable for defaming two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

With former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani yet to enter a Georgia courtroom and face racketeering charges, his life, finances and reputation are all in tatters and he has only himself to blame for it.

In a column for MSNBC, constitutional law expert Gerry Weber suggested the man once called "America's mayor" threw it all away for Donald Trump and his actions in Georgia, which resulted in both a civil lawsuit and a criminal indictment, led him to make terrible decisions that are directly responsible for his downfall.

As Weber explained, Giuliani's loss in a defamation case, which are notoriously hard to prove, can be directly attributed to his destroying evidence -- something every lawyer knows is beyond the pale.

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"Despite having been a lawyer for more than 50 years, the judge said Giuliani was destroying evidence in the defamation lawsuit even as he was warned repeatedly about the consequences." Weber wrote before adding, "Destroying evidence risks the nuclear bomb of consequences in any lawsuit, namely, a default judgment. A default judgment means the defendant’s liability is sealed, and fault is determined. Key to the issuance of the most egregious of sanctions is whether the party who destroyed evidence did so in bad faith."

Noting that Judge Beryl Howell wrote, "The fact that Giuliani is a sophisticated litigant with a self-professed 50 years of experience in litigation …. only underscores his lackluster preservation efforts,” Weber added, "Default was really the only option."

According to former federal prosecutor Dennis Aftergut, the rule of law just had a very good week — and Donald Trump and those caught up in his MAGA circle did not.

In a column for Salon, the attorney wrote that the courts should be praised for not bowing to outside pressure and forging forward with the multitude of cases involving the former president and his MAGA supporters who are now facing the music for a bevy of charges.

This past Wednesday, United States District Court Judge Beryl Howell of the District of Columbia ruled that "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani, the erstwhile personal attorney to former President Donald Trump, is liable for defaming two Georgia poll workers by spreading rumors about them that he would later admit were "false."

Giuliani and Trump are among nineteen individuals whom Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicted in August for allegedly orchestrating a racketeering scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden.