Trump’s lawyers ( the ones he doesn’t lie to) are great at dragging out procedures, vexing judges and generally making a tangled mess-if not a mockery-of our legal system in every jurisdiction they touch. How much legal representation can $100 million buy? Quite a bit.

His rallies generate thousands of small donations by the fully involved minds who share his belief that Trump did nothing wrong, “they have nothing,” and pending charges or investigations against him are mere “weaponization.” Most of that money goes into Trump’s hip pocket, not his campaign fund. Trump loves rallies, and lets the RNC deal with the other stuff (with their own funds). Rallies are relatively cheap compared to advertising, data services, door knockers, consultants, and all the other necessary elements of a campaign. Since his Leadership PAC, which takes up to 90 percent of donations to the joint RNC fundraising effort, cannot be used to actually spend money on Trump’s campaign, it can be used for practically anything else, including lining Trump’s personal pockets.

Trump has a war chest somewhere in the vicinity of $150 to $200 million and he’ll need a good chunk of it for his legal defense. As I was slamming this out on the keyboard, Erick Erickson’s takeposted to Substack, and he also said it’s a grift. On the surface, this kind of cult service seems like the chief nut preaching to the choir nuts, and largely it is, but it does serve a purpose for Trump.įirst, it’s a grift. The former president had his personal jet do a flyover of the crowd before landing for the rally, and provided the red meat for the crowd, not dealing with national issues, but his own existential war with those who are looking to lock him up. Yuuuge! 🇺🇸 /5e8coqLWFd- Jason Miller March 25, 2023

His Seed by Steve Berman