Former President Donald Trump's Save America PAC is critically low on funds — at the exact moment it stares down the prospect of paying millions more for legal fees for associates of the former president in the Georgia election racketeering case, reported USA Today Thursday.
The PAC "has spent nearly all of the more than $150 million it raised and is sitting on less than $4 million" — and Trump "has already dug into his fund for 2024 ads and borrowed money to post bail in Georgia," as some of his co-defendants beg for donations and claim he is not helping them as they assumed he would.
Four of Trump's co-defendants — attorneys John Eastman and Jenna Ellis, DOJ official Jeff Clark, and fake elector Cathleen Latham — have been reduced to using the right-wing Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo for money. Ellis in particular has allegedly been left in the cold by Trump and his associates because of her work with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the former president's most significant rival for the 2024 nomination.
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These trials could end up being massively expensive, according to experts. Defense attorney Danya Perry estimates that if they run for two or three weeks, they could easily top $10 million. And some of Trump's associates are already facing financial ruin – Rudy Giuliani is reportedly nearly broke, and already has a default judgment looming over him in an election worker defamation case, as well as debts from other legal cases.
At a bare minimum, said former federal prosecutor and defense attorney Bruce Udolf, “I can’t see most top-level white collar lawyers doing it for less than $2 or $3 million.”
As all of this is going on, Trump also needs to ramp up campaign spending to mount an effective rematch against President Joe Biden, who as of last month had raised $72 million since formally launching his re-election campaign.
