Republican Party paying Donald Trump's legal bills is more proof he owns the GOP
The promised payments are part of the RNC’s strategy to be the party of Trump, nothing more and nothing less.
By Jessica Levinson, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
The Republican National Committee is paying for former President Donald Trump’s personal legal bills, which is legal, politically savvy and deeply informative about the future of the Republican Party. The RNC is not spending this up to $1.6 million on competitive federal or state races. It is not spending this money to push policy proposals. It is spending this money to pay for lawyers that Trump had to hire to defend himself in criminal and civil fraud investigations that do not relate to his time as president.
Why would the RNC do this? Because the former president — who lost the last presidential election, was impeached twice and appears to have incited an attempted "self-coup" — is the favored cause of the RNC. Members of the RNC executive committee, who The Washington Post reported overwhelmingly voted to foot the legal bills of a self-proclaimed billionaire whose company is being investigated for possible fraud, believe this is where their money is best spent. (Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing.)
In the movie “All the President’s Men,” the man known as Deep Throat whispers to reporter Bob Woodward, “Follow the money.” Woodward and his fellow Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein then investigate the Watergate scandal and in so doing bring down the presidency of Richard Nixon. Over more than four decades, this phrase has become a useful shorthand to explain that if people really want to know what is going on in politics, and even uncover political corruption, they should look at money flowing to, and around, politicians.
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Friday, December 31st 2021 at 6:14PM
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