Trump becomes the butt of Biden jokes as legal bills he can't afford erode rich guy image
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What could you buy with $230,000? |
| 0:06.0 | Think about that for a second. |
| 0:07.8 | A house, a brand new Ferrari, a championship race horse? $230,000 is a huge amount of money. |
| 0:16.0 | That's how much Donald Trump's Save America Pack has spent per day on the former president's legal bills in February. |
| 0:27.0 | $5.6 million in one month, which I should note is more than the PAC was able to raise over that same period. |
| 0:34.0 | Everybody knows that the one thing Donald Trump needs right now is money. |
| 0:40.0 | When Trump engineered his takeover of the RNC earlier this month, his top advisor, |
| 0:44.6 | Chris Lissivita, promised that not a penny, quote, of the RNC's money would go to pay the President's |
| 0:51.1 | legal fees. He said that the RNC is as much a part of the Trump campaign as the Trump campaign is part of |
| 0:57.2 | the RNC. His words. Okay, important words because tonight we're |
| 1:01.7 | learning new details about the Trump campaign's new deal with the |
| 1:07.1 | RNC. |
| 1:08.9 | The unusual arrangement prioritizes Trump's Save America PAC over the |
| 1:15.4 | RNC. So while the RNC funds don't go directly to pay Trump's lawyers, any |
| 1:22.0 | donation to the combined entity go to Trump's campaign and his |
| 1:27.3 | Save America pack first. Then the remainder goes to the RNC and boy he's going to need it. |
| 1:35.0 | Because Trump's legal woes are far from over. |
| 1:38.0 | There's no telling what amount of legal fees he'll continue to accrue over the next year |
| 1:42.0 | with four criminal trials still looming. |
| 1:44.5 | And then there's the money he owes for trials that are already over. |
| 1:49.5 | The $464 million dollar bond from Trump's civil fraud trial in New York is due on Monday, four days from now. |
| 1:56.4 | Not to mention the fact that half a billion dollars is accruing $100,000 worth of interest every 24 hours. |
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