Hi everyone it is 4 o'clock here in New York I'm Elissy Menendez in for

Nicole Wallace consider it a new stage in what the January 6

select committee called the big rip-off. After raising millions of dollars from

everyday Americans off of completely baseless claims of fraud,

Donald Trump is now taking money from his supporters

to help him fend off his mountain of legal troubles.

Brand new reporting from the New York Times

reveals that the ex- president has spent a staggering

fifty million dollars of donor money on his legal bills and he has a lot of

legal bills to pay. He faces 91 felony counts in four cases, a lawsuit that threatens to take down his family business.

Not to mention the millions he owes E.G. and Carol after losing two lawsuits.

From that New York Times reporting, quote,

Mr. Trump has used funds in his political action committee

known as Save America to underwrite his legal bills.

The account was originally flooded with donations that were

collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election when he was

making widespread and false claims of voter fraud. But with Save America's coffers nearly drained last year,

Mr. Trump sought to refill them through a highly unusual transaction.

He asked for a refund of $60 million that he had initially transferred to a different group,

a pro-Trump super PAC called MAGA Inc. to support his 2024 campaign.

In addition, Mr. Trump has been directing 10% of donations raised online to save America,

meaning 10 cents of every dollar he has received from supporters is going to a pack that

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