Donald Trump’s political operation is reeling after spending around $60 million on legal fees pertaining to the four criminal indictments and various ongoing civil lawsuits against him.

Disclosures indicate that Trump’s campaign and the various political action committees supporting it blew through tens of millions of dollars in 2023, leaving him cash-strapped heading into 2024.

Save America PAC, Trump’s primary PAC heading into his likely rematch with President Joe Biden, once had over $100 million in the bank. Now, it has just a little over $5 million left after spending over $25 million on legal bills in the second half of last year alone.

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    9 months ago

    He might technically be worth a billion dollars, although even that much is disputed, but most of that worth is probably locked up in real estate. He’s probably running real low on cash.

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      Looking forward to seeing exactly what that real estate is actually worth when he’s forced to divest and pay the judgements against him.

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        probably half underwater, loaded down with debt; and the rest, likely falling apart in need of significant renovations.

        who am i kidding? it’s likely all loaded down with debt.

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          Does Deutchbank debt count as actual debt? I always figured with all the money laundering, that if he had to sell any of his actual properties (which are mostly shitty golf courses at this point), that the Russian moon would be charging him by the kneecap.

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        It’s the worst time to sell as well, with high interest rates and nobody wanting to be associated with anything Trump.

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      He’s a billion dollars in debt.

      Pinhead fucknuts think that means he’s a billionaire. He’s got a billion dollars less than nothing.

      Relevant: he’s a convicted fraud.

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        Funny how you can live like a king if you’re $1 billion in debt, but if you just have no money, you’re just going to be homeless.

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          I have a problem if I owe the bank a thousand dollars. The bank has a problem if I owe them a million dollars.

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            It needs to be a lot more than ‘just’ a million to make a bank really sweat and act abnormal; at that level you’re just a criminal they pursue.

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      A Newsweek article says he has $2.6B networth with $426M in cash and liquid assets. However, that very article is about the trial where he inflated his assets, so the basis for that may be completely wrong.

      That trial could put him under penalty of $370M. The Carroll lawsuit is $83.3M. Even if we take his liquid assets above as a given, he’d be wiped out, and his real estate is worth a fraction of what he claims.

      Trump needs to be in jail, but he’d also be Al Capone running his empire from a cell if he had to. Kick him in the money. That hurts him personally.