His key fund has spent nearly all of the more than $150 million it raised, and is sitting on less than $4 million, according to the latest numbers available. He’s already dug into his fund for 2024 ads, and borrowed money to post bail in Georgia. And some of his allies are begging for donations, saying he won’t pony up.

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    And some of his allies are begging for donations, saying he won’t pony up.

    HE NEVER DOES! How do these idiots not know that? He’s famous for not paying what he owes.

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    How ironic. “Running out of other people’s money” is a term that Trumpers use to describe communism.

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    I think it’s hilarious that he’s supposedly a billionaire yet the RNC and their various related PACs are willing to go broke for him even though he is unpopular enough that the candidates he endorsed lost in the midterms. He’s losing them elections left and right and yet they still can’t stop themselves from throwing money at him.
    He’s like King Midas but everything he touches turns to shit.

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      he packed the court, he personally killed roe, and he gives americans they hate the most, women/brown people/homosexuals nightmares. he is their god. they don’t care about anything else. racists would throw their own children into fire if it meant mud people might get it worse than they have it now. it really is that simple.

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        you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.…

        Lee Atwater, on how the Republican party wins the votes of racists without appearing blatantly racist

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        [5 minutes later…]

        “I should go suck trumps dick, just to hedge my bets…” - also lindsey graham

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      But you see, he’s only broke because the very very mean libs stole the election from him which forced him to try to overthrow the government. Then they led all kinds of witch hunts against him after he tried to show that he was right and expose election fraud. None of this is his fault!!! He’s innocent! He averted nuclear Holocaust!! /s

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      They can’t win without his base. Polls are continually showing somewhere around 30-40% of Republicans who voted for him don’t think they’d show up if he isn’t the candidate. They’re basically stuck with him for now. If they get rid of him, it’d be an absolute blood bath and they know it.

      This is why traditionally after a major defeat in a general election candidates gracefully step down on the presidential stage. It only makes sense, you’ve proven you can’t win, give someone else a chance. Trump however doesn’t give a single fuck about the republican party and he’s going to destroy them. A rematch of the same candidates in a presidential is about unheard of in modern American history for a reason.

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    “No word from Trump,” Johnson wrote. “Nothing to defend these people who worked so hard for him. Not a dime of his money to fund their defense. Nothing. He has thrown all of them under the bus to prop himself up.”

    No waaaaay, shock pikachu face

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    What the fuck I thought Super PACs were not allowed to coordinate with the candidate…right? …right? It’s paying his fucking legal bills how is that not a violation? Oh that’s right because it’s a fucking corrupt bullshit concept. The supreme court’s awful Citizens United ruling completely fucked over this country.

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      It’s a violation, but at this point they’re openly flouting campaign finance laws. Usually, a campaign and their PAC will have “secret” places to publicly share documents that are technically public but only known to the campaign and the PAC. For example, they might have a site called Artichoke-And-Orange-Juice-Recipes dot com which would have various recipes posted. However, if you go to /recipes/other/political/campaigns/2023/abcd-5678-totally-public-stuff/ one side would post documents for the other side to grab. It’s technically not coordinating since anyone could grab those documents, but only they know about that URL so practically speaking it’s coordinating secretly. However, for the debate, DeSantis’ PAC posted debate prep notes openly for DeSantis to use.

      Also, a DeSantis PAC has been paying for stuff like a campaign bus for DeSantis which shouldn’t be allowed.

      Meanwhile, Republicans want to loosen the regulations so that PACs could coordinate openly with the campaigns with no restrictions.

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    Why his allies are surprised he won’t pony up is a mystery given the man’s half a century history of cheating anybody who’d put any trust in him.

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      Or to take funds from foreign governments. It would be nothing to them if Trump loses, but if he wins they’ll own him forever.

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      You mean openly transferring bribes wealth to someone else, someone who needs a clear trail of where the boatloads of money came from.

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    Has anyone thought maybe he is only saying he is going to run for president again so he can continue to rake in this money to pay the fees? If he wasn’t running the PAC wouldn’t exist right? Seems like an easy way to continue paying and then bailout once he has exhausted all funds.

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      He also is trying to get his supporters and fixers to fix everything so he doesn’t get prosecuted by becoming president again. They’re seriously down for cheating and SCOTUS is obviously on their side with the votes percentage, so I can see him doing whatever he’s got left to do.

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    And yet every time something happens to him he gets millions in donations. Does he even need to advertise? Even if he’s broke I doubt he’d drop out of the race, he’d just make people work on credit and then not pay.

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      Some troll signed me up for Trump’s mailing lists. The donation requests are absolutely pathetic. “President Trump asked me to reach out to YOU, one of his most loyal donors, to help out this month with defending freedom. We’re putting the list of his top 50 defenders on his desk this afternoon and want your name on it again this time!” … “President Trump got his weekly list of donors and asked me why your name wasn’t on it this time!”

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    Any cent wasted on lawyers will mean less money on ads. I think many people will be thankful for seeing less of his face next year…