Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay.
At least four have turned to crowdfunding online, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for defense lawyers. One now has a political action committee to help with legal fees. Another has an ally in Congress vowing to support his legal defense. While another ended up spending nearly a week in jail because he initially couldn’t afford to hire an attorney.
Trump has covered the legal bills of aides, advisers and employees during the House select committee’s probe into January 6, 2021, and federal investigations, including his two co-defendants in the classified documents case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, both of whom work for the former president.
But there is no sign yet that Trump intends to do so for any of his co-defendants in the Georgia case, which alleges that he and others engaged in a criminal conspiracy to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. In fact, Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know “a lot of these people.”
Anyone who genuinely believed that Trump was going to pay their bills could probably use that as a good starting point for building an insanity defense.
face, meet leopard
Can you overdose on schadenfreude?
Shock. Man who doesn’t pay his own lawyers lied about paying for other people’s lawyers.
“While another ended up spending nearly a week in jail because he initially couldn’t afford to hire an attorney.”
Regardless of context, this sentence is so dystopian and fucked up.
Did he forego the free council?
He was arguing the cost would break him and his family, so I think the issue was that he had too much wealth to have one readily appointed.
So you can be too rich to have a public defender?
The way Miranda rights read: “if you cannot afford an attorney, an attorney will be appointed” just like cop shows teach us.
- IANAL
He’s probably not even paying his own lawyers, so…
That’s because Trump’s defense will be throwing you morons under the bus.
Exactly. I’d assume he paid for the legal fees of those staffers because they were either still useful to him, or they had something on him. In other words, he paid because he thought he’d get something out of it.
These other random people have served their purpose to him and haven’t got anything more useful to extract, or at least nothing worth more than the legal fees, so they can quite literally go hang as far as Trump’s concerned.
I’m not quite sure why some people are still surprised that Trump operates like this, but like you said they’re morons so that probably covers most of it lol
Remember when the IT guy at mar a lago switched to states evidence when he got his own lawyer? Yeah - you probably don’t want trump’s lawyers anyway lol.
Thoughts and prayers
Yeah doh!
It’s the same sad song over and over… Trump uses somebody else to do his dirty work, then throws them under the bus. If there is no bus he’ll goddamn get one.
Why would anyone be stupid enough to work for Trump? It’s a career or life ender and a guaranteed jail sentence
Edit: he even on multiple occasions didn’t pay his lawyers. Why do people work with him?
In fact, Trump has publicly distanced himself from them, telling Newsmax he doesn’t know “a lot of these people.”
Wow, that is one hell of a breakup line.
Nothing quite like finding out you were the one night affair. After you just helped him bury the body.
I still can’t wrap my head around why these people are willing to commit multiple felonies for Donald Trump, of all people.
Every one of them have joined a stupid cult like group for that sense of belonging and affirming their place in the group/world.
He plays on that. It works. They’ll follow one idiot, so they’ll follow another.
And their value system - as shown for republicans - is very upside-down: Trump has validity because he’s in the group, and the group is great because he’s in it and so he’s allowed in it. It’s seemingly not the other way around where he can’t join the group as a cad and a cheat. It’s amazingly circular too.
So yeah: joiners are his thing, and he gives them all the (little-s) social security they crave at the mere cost of them committing treason for him and going to jail.
It’s a big GQP tent, but one of the biggest tent poles is racism
i really can’t believe that big, brave Donald isn’t in there doing everything he can for other people… that’s just not like a big, brave boy… a big, brave boy should be standing up for his friends… i thought a big, brave boy like Donald would protect his friends…
maybe he’s just a scared, crying little pussy, and so are all of his supporters
Reminds me of that arc in Breaking Bad where they had to keep making money to pay off people in jail to keep them from flipping and trying for a plea. I forget how it ended though.
They all got killed at once by the Neo Nazis. That’s not definitely off the cards here.
Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. They were all murdered in prison so they wouldn’t talk. Looks like we’re gunna see a few more Epsteins.
It ended very quickly.
ha, are these the only people who didnt see this coming? trump has never paid his bills, hes certainly not paying anyone elses
Not too mention he got a bondsman and loans to cover bail.
