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Deadline: White House

“A serial bankruptcy artist”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace is joined by Carol Leonnig, Tim Miller, Tim O'Brien, Basil Smikle, Mini Timmaraju, Betsy Woodruff Swan, Mary McCord, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Marc Elias, Matthew Dowd, Ryan Nobles, Andrea Mitchell, and Sen. Claire McCaskill.

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0:00.0

Hi there everyone happy

0:09.8

everyone happy Wednesday it's four o'clock in New York it is a money-making

0:12.4

scheme that makes Trump stakes

0:14.7

look like small potatoes.

0:16.5

Brand new reporting revealing that the ex-president funneled more than $100 million that

0:22.1

he raised off of the big lie, a toxin injected by Trump and his allies

0:26.5

into the political bloodstream of our very own democracy, right into his pile of legal bills.

0:33.7

The New York Times reporting this,

0:35.3

that, quote, Mr. Trump has averaged more than $90,000 a day

0:39.8

in legal related costs for more than three years,

0:42.4

none of it paid with his own money.

0:45.0

And much of those funds come from the very same thing that has landed Trump in legal trouble in the first place.

0:50.0

$254 million raised in the post-election period when Trump regularly lied to his

0:57.0

supporters claiming that the election was rigged against him and tried desperately to overturn

1:02.0

his election defeat.

1:03.7

As the New York Times reports, even though Trump called on his supporters

1:07.4

to fill up a so-called election defense fund,

1:10.6

just a fraction of the money he raised from his supporters, 15.6 million, actually went toward any of the lawsuits or recounts, all of which of course failed to turn up any fraud or move the needle in Trump's favor because as we all know

1:24.8

there was no fraud on a scale that would have impacted the election result at all anywhere.

1:30.8

Instead, all those contributions went to a political action committee.

1:35.0

The Save America PAC, and after Trump left the White House, another PAC,

1:39.0

began to take in these donations, all, all of it, to pay Trump's legal bills, which were soaring

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