Republicans and Money: It’s Not Flowing

Maybe donors got tired of paying Donald Trump’s legal bills

MartinEdic
5 min readNov 27, 2023

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Or maybe he is just scaring them off with his crazy.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is almost out of money on the eve of a Presidential election year, and as we all know, big money greases the wheels of national politics. This brings up so many questions it’s hard to know where to start.

First, what does it tell us about how strong Donald Trump’s support is among the nation’s wealthy? Are they starting to have doubts? Despite the Trumpian belief that court appearances are political gold, they also have the effect of making people question his competence.

The NY civil case, which many on both sides dismissed as weak, is proving to be the opposite. First, he has already lost based on the judge’s decision months ago. The circus we are witnessing now is only about the fines and other penalties.

But if I’m a big money GOP donor, presumably a business person, seeing how he and his sons ran their business is pitiful. Their testimony only reinforces our suspicion that Don Jr and Eric are not the brightest lights on the planet.

And their father’s obsession with a court clerk, a weak distraction tactic at best, is now starting to look deranged. He may…

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MartinEdic
MartinEdic

Written by MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!

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