Donald Trump's political operation is reeling after spending around $60 million on legal fees over the course of the last year.

Donald Trump’s political operation is reeling after spending around $60 million on legal fees pertaining to the four criminal indictments and various ongoing civil lawsuits against him.

Disclosures indicate that Trump’s campaign and the various political action committees supporting it blew through tens of millions of dollars in 2023, leaving him cash-strapped heading into 2024.

Save America PAC, Trump’s primary PAC heading into his likely rematch with President Joe Biden, once had over $100 million in the bank. Now, it has just a little over $5 million left after spending over $25 million on legal bills in the second half of last year alone.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    18·
    10 months ago

    Hurr hurr hurr hurr…

    As with any war, strategy takes a back seat to logistics, and logistics take a back seat to financing.

    Can’t win a war with out money for lunchables for the crayon eaters (love you). Go after the sources of funding and the game gets real, real quick.

    A butchered quote from my favorite book on strategy:

    The worst is to go after their fortresess, and the next worse to go after their soldiers in the field.

    Beyond that it is better to go after their ability to organize, their logistics. Better even, to go after their alliances and finances.

    Best of all is to win in the field of their ideas themselves.

    People pay Trump because of a parasocial relationship where they believe they are having some effect. If they see that money as being lit on fire for Trumps failed court proceedings, this is an oppurtunity to drive a wedge between Trump and what he needs so much to keep his, likely absurd, burn rate going. Go after his relationships.