Trump Caught Red Handed. Legal Defense $$$ Went In His Own Pocket

Guess which obese orange person got caught with his hands in the cookie jar, yet once again? That’s right, it’s Donald Trump, he who would have you believe that he worked for free in the White House and didn’t need any campaign money to get there in the first place because he’s such a mega massive major league billionaire. He’s not and every indication is that whenever he gets his hands on cash it doesn’t get used for the purpose(s) that it was collected for. Here’s the gist of the latest Trump thievery story from Daily Beast:

A legal defense fund for Donald Trump appears to have placed its spending priorities in a strange place: Mar-a-Lago.

New tax filings show Trump’s legal defense fund raising about $1.6 million over the last six months and spending less than $30,000. But more notable than how little the legal defense group has spent is what they didn’t spend it on—namely, legal services—as well as what they paid for: a party at Mar-a-Lago.

The group—a political nonprofit called the “Patriot Legal Defense Fund”—was created by Trump campaign officials in July to help pay down the beleaguered former president’s snowballing court costs.

While the fund can accept unlimited donations from both individuals and corporations, its first periodic financial report, submitted to the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday, indicates a phlegmatic start, with only about $1.6 million in receipts. (Trump’s 2024 campaign had raised about $56.7 million as of Sept. 30.) Even more alarming from the group is that the majority of that money—$1 million—came from a single contribution, given by a donor couple whose previous association with QAnon conspiracy theory forced the campaign to cancel a fundraiser ahead of the 2020 election.

Now, this is a glaring issue, because non profits have a fiduciary duty to donors to make sure that the money is used for what the money was collected for. That is as simple as it gets. And of course, that kind of thing doesn’t exist in Trump world. The only operant principle there is caveat emptor. If you deal with Donald, don’t complain when he bites you. You knew he was a snake when you took him in right? Mary Trump chimes in.

This is a fundamental principle of non-profit law. If a non-profit misuses funds, it is FRAUD.”

The last time a Donald-related fund faced scrutiny, people went to prison.

BUILD THE WALL co-founder Brian Kolfage was sentenced to four years in prison for pocketing money raised to build a wall on the US-Mexico border, after falsely promising donors all funds would go to the project.

Two other co-defendants, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea, were sentenced to three and five years in prison respectively. Steve Bannon was also charged in the scheme received a last-minute pardon from Donald at the end of his term. He’ll face NY state related charges in 2024 — and Donald can’t pardon him on state charges.

This is the level of corruption and potentially criminal activity that Donald constantly surrounds himself with and condones.

It is up to us to make enough noise that these crimes don’t fall below the radar.

Hear, hear, Mary. Unfortunately, with respect to Trump, his crimes are so numerous and back to back that they form a cacophony of crime, a symphony of sedition, a coda of corruption. It never stops. But, with any luck, we’ll be able to stop him or at the very least prevent him from getting anywhere near public office again. That’s a feat which the GOP would have ensured had they not been so totally corrupt themselves.