"Trump Fundraising Committee Prioritizes Legal Bills Over RNC Payments"
The newly formed "Trump 47" joint fundraising committee will direct a portion of donations to the Save America PAC, which is used to cover former President Donald Trump's legal bills, a departure from typical campaign donation trajectories. The move means that only a fraction of major donors’ contributions would go toward legal bills, while a higher percentage of small-contribution donors’ money would be funneled to the RNC. Trump faces criminal indictments and civil legal issues, including a $464 million fraud judgment and an $83 million defamation damages order, with difficulties in raising funds to post a bond for the civil fraud penalty against him.