Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay.
At least four have turned to crowdfunding online, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for defense lawyers. One now has a political action committee to help with legal fees. Another has an ally in Congress vowing to support his legal defense. While another ended up spending nearly a week in jail because he initially couldn’t afford to hire an attorney.
Trump has covered the legal bills of aides, advisers and employees during the House select committee’s probe into January 6, 2021, and federal investigations, including his two co-defendants in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, both of whom work for the former president.
But there is no sign yet that Trump intends to do so for any of his co-defendants in the Georgia case, which alleges that he and others engaged in a criminal conspiracy to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. In fact, Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know “a lot of these people.”
He’s never going to pay to help any of these people because he believes they are supposed to go to jail for him. He believes that’s part of the “plan” that only exists in his head.
He has even expressed the opinion on record that he thinks any loyal Republican should always take jail time to protect him and never speak against him. He really does think he’s a mafia boss
It’s amazing how far narcissism can go when left unchecked.
I mean the dude lived in a giant gold tower with his name written across it before he was made one of the most powerful people in the world.
And he’s a teetotaler. I can’t even imagine what would have happened if he’d gotten into cocaine or something.
“Look out for number one” except number one is always Trump.
And you’re always number two.
It’s baffling how many faces a single leopard can eat.
Probably should have started with a small leopard rather than choosing to back an obese leopard with a looong track record of chawing on people’s countenances.
“Trump’s sons, Eric and Don Jr, have helped with the fundraising around the legal defense fund created in July, which is intended to support legal costs of Trump’s associates and has begun to see financial pledges, the source said.”
Everything should be fine, the people who steal from charities are in top of it
He doesn’t pay his own lawyers, why would he pay someone else’s?
Well it’s time these idiots flipped on him.
Seriously. How are these people heaping loyalty on someone who gives none back?
There’s a name for them “flying monkeys”
I looked into it, what makes people back this guy against all better sense. I think I know why they’re doing it.
It’s because they’re stupid.
If they haven’t seen through it until now, they never will
Cop a plea. Legal fees will come to an abrupt halt.
That would require them to admit they are wrong. Can’t keep the grift up if they do that!
Anyone who genuinely believed that Trump was going to pay their bills could probably use that as a good starting point for building an insanity defense.
Trump had to go to the bail bondsman just like the rest of them did. What does that say about Trump’s ability to pay for other’s legal fees? If he can’t front the cash for bail directly himself, what makes these clowns think they are special?
Trump has a reputation to uphold (that he doesn’t pay what he owes)
He’s got this thing. .with his checking account It takes a few days to move the money And he doesn’t have direct deposit.
Jesus.
Most of these people that went along with Trump are actually marginally intelligent… and yet they trusted him to pay his bills.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
People who are with Trump and the word intelligence does not mesh.
Unfortunately, it absolutely does.
These people aren’t stupid, and they leveraged his presidency perfectly. They were remiss in their failure to pick up a history book because they seem honestly shocked that Trump, while he demands loyalty, shows loyalty to absolutely no one but himself.
Yeah, plenty of smart people are also idiots.
Ben Carson used to be a world class neurosurgeon, Ted Cruz was educated at Yale and Princeton and Rand Paul is technically still a doctor. All of them also colossal morons.
Cruz is a smart sociopath.
Ben… Ben is just a highly educated smart in his specialty moron.
face, meet leopard
Can you overdose on schadenfreude?
LPT: if you don’t commit crimes, you don’t have to worry about paying legal fees!
This is not true.
Well you have to worry about it less, at least
I only have anecdotal evidence to rely on, but I personally know several people who didn’t try to overthrow our government and as a result, are not drowning in legal fees due to multiple federal and state indictments.
Wait, you know people who haven’t tried to overthrow the government at least once? What are they even doing with their lives?
True. Innocent people have to pay legal bills all the time to prove it.
You don’t get rich helping others.
Most of trumps net worth came from his father’s wealth and the natural apretiation that happens over time.
This is despite his frequently shitty business decisions.
There’s a pretty good argument that since 2016 most of his wealth has come from fundraising and PACs.
“I’m so rich I could just buy the presidency- and that’s a good thing because then you know I’m not selling out to russia or something”… “now give me money so I can get elected!”
Am I supposed to feel some sort of empathy here?
Have pity on them, they conspired with the leopard with the idea that it wouldn’t eat their face!
Alas, the leopard is always hungry
Reminds me of that arc in Breaking Bad where they had to keep making money to pay off people in jail to keep them from flipping and trying for a plea. I forget how it ended though.
They all got killed at once by the Neo Nazis. That’s not definitely off the cards here.
Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. They were all murdered in prison so they wouldn’t talk. Looks like we’re gunna see a few more Epsteins.
It ended very quickly.
