How Donald Trump moved money to pay staggering legal bills

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The New York Times reports that Trump has spent more than $100 million on legal fees since 2021, averaging about $90,000 a day. Also, conspiracy theories are running rampant about the ship collision that took down Baltimore's Key bridge. Plus, ex-crypto king Sam Bankman- Fried could be sentenced to decades in prison after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy. Charles Coleman Jr, McKay Coppins, Clint Watts, Hans Nichols, Amanda Carpenter, and Zeke Faux join.

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0:00.0	Tonight Donald Trump's skyrocketing legal bills, how the Republican nominee is
0:07.3	covering the cost of all those lawyers, while Biden's campaign cash advantage
0:12.1	is only getting bigger.
0:13.7	Plus, the surge of conspiracy theories about the Baltimore Bridge collapse,
0:18.2	who's spreading those dangerous lies about the disaster.
0:21.4	And convicted ex-cripto king Sam Bankman Freed is facing decades in prison.
0:27.7	His sentencing now just hours away, as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night.
0:33.2	Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule.
0:40.2	We are now 223 days away from the election
0:45.7	and we are learning more about the crossover between Donald Trump's political
0:50.4	fundraising and his court cases.
0:52.6	According to the New York Times,
0:54.1	Donald Trump has spent, are you ready for this number,
0:57.1	more than $100 million on legal bills since 2021? That is more than 90 grand a day. Tell your
1:07.2	kids to be lawyers one day. Trump has relied almost completely on donations
1:11.9	from people made to fight the results of the
1:14.2	2020 election to pay for it all. The $254 million donation number you see at
1:19.9	the top of your screen right now was what Trump managed to raise between the day
1:24.0	after the election and President Biden's inauguration. Well only a teeny little
1:29.4	fraction of that money actually went towards challenging the election results.
1:34.0	But now that money is drying up and Trump will either have to find another source of cash
1:39.0	who start footing the bills himself.
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