{"id":32727,"date":"2024-03-23T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32727"},"modified":"2024-03-23T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:01:08","slug":"trumps-deal-with-r-n-c-prioritizes-pac-paying-his-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32727","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Deal With R.N.C. Prioritizes PAC Paying His Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/21pol-swiper-trump-pwzt-facebookJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"180\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A share of donations taken in by the Republican National Committee will go to the group footing his legal bills before any of the cash goes to the party itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-legal-bills-rnc.html\">Trump\u2019s Deal With R.N.C. Prioritizes PAC Paying His Lawyers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In practice, what that means is that even modestly large contributors \u2014 <em><strong>anything above $6,600 \u2014 will fund the account that Mr. Trump has used to defray legal costs<\/strong><\/em>. And the fund-raising agreement came as Save America, which has averaged roughly $5 million a month in legal payments for Mr. Trump and witnesses in his cases, is on course to run low on funds as the spring ends.&#8221;<br>The new fund-raising agreement comes shortly after Mr. Trump has functionally taken over the R.N.C. as the presumptive Republican nominee. <strong><em>He pushed to install a new chairman, Michael Whatley, and to have his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A share of donations taken in by the Republican National Committee will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[815,72],"class_list":["post-32727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ratfucker","tag-usa-usa-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32730,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32727\/revisions\/32730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}