LMCane said:
Anyone with a scintilla of cognizance about politics realizes Trump is doing EVERYTHING he can to become the nominee- rather than the actual President. And now we know why:
Spiraling Legal Bills Threaten Trump With a Cash Crunch
August 11, 2023 in News
Donald J. Trump's legal problems aren't just piling up his legal bills are, too.
New financial reports show that the former president's various political committees and the super PAC backing him have used roughly 30 cents of every dollar spent so far this year on legal-related costs. The total amounts to more than $27 million in legal fees and other investigation-related bills in the first six months of 2023, according to a New York Times analysis of federal records.
That $27 million in legal costs includes Mr. Trump paying at least eight law firms more than $1 million each in the first half of 2023, part of a sizable set of legal billings expected to spiral upward in the coming months as his overlapping criminal cases wind their way toward courtrooms in New York, Florida and Washington, D.C.
The new disclosures revealed the remarkable degree to which Mr. Trump's political and legal cash are intermingled, much like his own political and legal fate.
Mr. Trump's complex political orbit is already spending more than it is taking in, and tapping into money it raised years ago an unusual trajectory this far out from an election. And the burn rate raises questions about whether such an approach is untenable, or whether Mr. Trump will eventually need to dip into his own fortune to pay for his lawyers, his 2024 campaign or both.
It is a step that the famously tightfisted Mr. Trump has resisted taking, even as his advisers have begun planning behind the scenes for a potential political cash crunch months before the primaries begin.
Mr. Trump is not known for long-term planning, so it remains unclear how much he has focused on the intricate challenges of financing his campaign in the coming months. Some close to him say they are reassured by the fact that if he becomes the presidential nominee again, he can rely on the Republican Party to provide financial support.
I actually believe there's a line of truth in this, but I see it from a different angle...
I think the establishment is absolutely going after him on all of these fake charges in order to bury him in legal problems and bankrupt his campaign so that he is forced to drop out of the primary...
So, I don't think the establishment is playing some amazing game of 4D chess in bringing false charges against him so as to stir up his base, make him the primary winner, and then defeat him again in the general...
I think the goal is to bankrupt his campaign so they don't have to invent a new, more elaborate way to beat him in the general....just make it so he can't afford to run, and then they'll take their chances against the surviving R nominee...
I've noticed a trend in that, the higher his poll numbers rise, the more indictments on new-found crimes seem to appear...
The establishment has their own set of internal polling, and they do NOT like how it looks for being able to defeat Trump straight up, and they already fired a silver bullet in 2020 and they don't think they can pull that off the same way twice without being exposed...
So much easier to simply try to run his campaign coffers dry and remove him from the 2024 equation...
