What Next - Trump’s Spiraling Legal Fees
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
With every indictment, Donald Trump’s legal fees grow—but so do his campaign donations. Money is leaving faster than its arriving—how long can he keep this up?
Guest: Ben Kamisar, deputy political editor for the NBC political unit.
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| 0:31.0 | So Ben, how many emails a day do you get from the Trump campaign? |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, dozens, right? |
| 0:44.0 | Ben Kamasar covers politics for NBC News. |
| 0:48.0 | What are they asking for? Like, what are they about? |
| 0:51.0 | Money. All asking for money. |
| 0:53.0 | All of them. Even the ones that are just like, hey girl you up. |
| 0:57.0 | Everything's asking for money these days, right? |
| 0:59.0 | That's the engine that makes everything, you know? |
| 1:01.0 | Everything go. |
| 1:03.0 | These emails don't just ask for money. |
| 1:06.0 | Most of the time they sound like Donald Trump's personal blog entries. |
| 1:10.0 | Friend reads one from a week ago. |
| 1:12.0 | On my drive back from the federal courthouse, where I was processed, read my rights, |
| 1:16.0 | and heard that I could spend the rest of my life in prison as an innocent man, |
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