Trump PAC spent over $5 mil on legal aid for his kids — almost half 'exclusively for Ivanka'
Save America PAC, a political fundraising group controlled by former president Donald Trump, spent over 5 million dollars on law firms representing
three of his five children, Business Insider reports.
According to the report, the PAC spent $2.3 million in 2023 on “two law firms that represented Ivanka Trump” and $5.3 million a law firm
representing Ivanka and her two younger brothers, “Eric Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. — as well as the Trump Organization.”
Business Insider reports the lawsuits in question “have no apparent relation to Trump's campaign to retake the presidency in the 2024 election.”
CREW ( Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) research director Robert Maquire told Business Insider the PAC, which became a major Trump fundraising arm after the former president's defeat in 2020, has since “largely become a vehicle for paying his, his family's and his associates' legal bills, while also channeling tens of millions to a pro-Trump super PAC."
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"In 2020, [Trump] raised tens of millions of dollars for the PAC by making baseless claims of a stolen election and casting the PAC as an 'Official Election Defense Fund,'"
Maguire said.
"Since then, the committee has largely become a vehicle for paying his, his family's, and his associates' legal bills, while also channeling tens of millions to a pro-Trump super PAC."
At least 2 million dollars, according to the report, were spent on two firms that “represented Ivanka Trump in New York Attorney General Letitia James's
sprawling lawsuit against the Trump Organization, Donald Trump, his three eldest children and several executives over its finances.”
Business Insider reports the firms worked “exclusively for Ivanka” and not for her brothers, Eric and Don Jr.
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In fact, one of the firms argued in a court filing to
Judge Arthur F. Engoron that Ivanka's circumstances were especially “unique,” in part “because she left the company in January, 2017.”
Per the report:
“The legal costs for law firms representing Ivanka Trump are just a sliver of the over $50 million that Save America and MAGA PAC, another political group controlled by her father, spent on legal costs.”
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