Candidate for the US presidential election of 2024, Donald Trump faces a path strewn with pitfalls to regain his former position. Indictments by American justice have multiplied in recent months. Results: exorbitant legal fees.
A very high bill. Donald Trump is the subject of four indictments, the last of which for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state of Georgia. His legal troubles are piling up and their costs are skyrocketing.
According to a tally by the Open Secrets observatory, reported by The Parisian, the former president of the United States is said to have spent over $130 million on his legal fees alone. In 2023 alone the bill amounts to 26 million dollars for 40 different law firms. For the year 2020, it was a record $37 million to settle.
Asked by The ParisianAnna Massoglia, the author of the survey, explains how the billionaire Donald Trump pays these colossal sums: “All the campaigns include legal costs of different kinds, but here we are well beyond that. It is here of lawyers’ fees, of costs linked to investigations, so that it is not only a question of campaign costs as such, but also of expenses which concern Donald Trump himself as a person, both personal and professional interests.
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A practice criticized even within his own party. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says: “This guy is a billionaire and he spends almost all the money the American middle class gives him on legal fees.”
The 2024 US presidential candidate assures that this is all just a ploy by President Joe Biden to keep him out of the race for the White House. “For what Crooked Joe Biden could he be able to force me to spend time and money on lawsuits, especially before the election?”, he complained on his Truth Social network. small contributors explode.
2023-08-22 15:43:00
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