Lara Trump: GOP voters will 'absolutely' pony up to pay ex-president’s legal bills
Lara Trump — the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump — thinks it's a no-brainer that ordinary Republican voters will dig deep to help the billionaire ex-president pay his mounting legal costs.
In a recent interview with NBC News, Lara Trump opined that rank-and-file Americans who support her father-in-law's presidential campaign would happily step up to help fund his ongoing defense in four upcoming criminal trials in three separate jurisdictions, along with the over half-billion dollars he already owes in civil judgments.
"Absolutely. That’s why you’ve seen a GoFundMe get started," Lara Trump said, referring to an ongoing crowdfunding campaign launched by his fans. "That’s why people are furious right now and they see the attacks against him. They feel like it’s an attack, not just on Donald Trump, but on this country … So I think that is a big interest to people. Absolutely."
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The former president has come out in favor of current Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Ronna McDaniel stepping down, and replacing her with North Carolina Republican Party chairman Michael Whatley and his daughter-in-law as co-chairs of the RNC. Even though she's never run a campaign or worked in political leadership roles before, Lara Trump said that she still believes she's qualified to help lead the GOP's national organization in a major presidential election year.
"I worked with the RNC whenever I was you know, part of the Trump campaign from 2016 all the way through 2020," she told NBC. "So, I mean, I think as far as campaigns go, I have a lot of experience. I’m sure there’s a lot I still need to learn about."
Lara Trump may not be totally off-base in her assessment of GOP voters. Earlier this month, several small-dollar Trump donors told the Seattle Times that they have no problem with Trump using their money to pay his attorneys.
"I don’t know anything about how he’s actually using the money," a retired bank employee from Seattle told the Times' Danny Westneat. "I do know that everybody’s attacking him with whatever weapons they have. If he’s defending himself with my money, then that’s more than fine with me."
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