Trump has raised 1,500 million after the elections – VG

According to The Washington Post, the Trump campaign has earned more than $ 170 million, or 1.5 billion crowns, in the month after the election. This is an amount higher than that obtained by the campaign in the three months prior to the elections.

CNN has followed the case with his own sources in the Trump campaign, and has come to the same conclusion as The Washington Post.

The fundraising is fueled by a highly offensive campaign against common Trump supporters, the so-called small donors. There have been nearly 500 different campaigns asking for donations in a flood of emails. In the emails, Trump and his team use capital letters to refute unsubstantiated allegations that they have stolen from the election winner.

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The money appears to go to the fight that Trump’s team is leading in court to prove allegations of widespread voter fraud. So far, Trump’s lawyers have been unsuccessful.

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Collections are marked as intended for “Official Electoral Defense Fund”In other words, a fund intended to “protect the elections.” The Washington Post has questioned what this fund really is.

Unclear spending

The newspaper’s findings indicate that a large part of the money does not necessarily go to pay for lawsuits. The Trump campaign can also use the money for entirely different purposes, such as paying down debt, claims The Washington Post.

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The money raised goes to the so-called “Trump Make America Great Again Committee”. This is a fundraising organization created to raise funds for both the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC).

But since November 18, these funds are also shared with a new organization: Save America. This is an organization that Trump has created to fund political activities after his resignation as president.

Political Action Committee

Save America, which now has access to the significant funds that Trump raises, is a so-called PAC (Political Action Committee), that is, a political action committee. Such committees are intended to support or combat politicians or individual cases.

These are now increasingly created by politicians emerging from elected office, but who want to retain political influence by supporting others who are on their way to politics.

There are general rules about how a PAC can use the funds raised: The newspaper notes that Trump can use the PAC money to hold political meetings on his own property, pay for travel and even personal expenses.

According to The Washington Post, 75 percent of the money donated to Trump now goes directly to this new organization, with only the last quarter being used for trials. According to the newspaper, only donations of more than $ 5,000 reach the trials.

“Small donors who donate to Trump and think they are helping ‘protect the elections’ are actually helping pay off Trump’s campaign debt or funding his political operations after he resigns as president, says Brendan Fischer, in Campaign legal center, an organization that works to impose restrictions on monetary contributions to politics.

The Washington Post’s allegations have not been directly answered by the Trump campaign, but Republican spokesman Mike Reed says he has spent tens of millions of dollars on litigation in recent years to “protect the credibility of the election.”

P.S: Fighting in court is costly for Trump anyway. His much-talked-about attorney, Rudy Giuliani, will demand $ 20,000 a day to lead the case.