496 Comments

The best part of all of this is that all that money that's going to the RNC will be spent on the Yam's legal fees or on HIS campaign and there won't be any left for any downballot campaigns. So, all you Senate races, House races, Governors, local Representatives--you're all on your own because you're about to be sacrificed to pay for the Yam's legal fees and his campaign costs.

The Democrats are rolling in small dollar contributions and money from big funders, including from some of Nikki Haley's former givers. The RNC, otoh, has now become radioactive, seeing as how it's become the Yam's personal piggybank.

Expand full comment

What was that thing Lindsey Graham said in 2016? That thing where everyone pooh-poohed him and said, "Oh, you silly thing. One individual cannot ever destroy something so immense and powerful as a political party."

There's a meme about it, I know.

Expand full comment

No, there is not a 50-50 chance the electorate is going to fuck this up again. Ds and D-leaning Independents are totally fucking motivated.

Expand full comment

Trump has never contributed a single penny to any of his campaigns.

Expand full comment

An $815,000 'donation' to sit down and listen to those worthless white assholes whine? Shit, I'd use that money to run for fucking President myself.

Expand full comment

There's the money Trump will make from the Truth Social merger boondoggle, but usually in those cases investors can't sell the stock or use it for collateral for 6 months.

Expand full comment

Engoron should slap PAB with hs own $91M defamation lawsuit.

Expand full comment

Even if he has $465M in liquid assets, which is highly unlikely, a good bit of it is already committed to operating his tacky gold-plated resorts. Plus terms of his loans from various entities require him to have a certain amount of money.

He wants someone else to pay his bond so he can keep spinning his lies about being a billionaire. Kind of like the “I’m rich so I won’t be beholden to anyone” lies he told when he first ran.

Expand full comment

Because EVERY millionaire (excuse me, nillionaire. I love that so much. Hee!) that has 500 million to play around with goes out of their WAY to come up with trading cards and tacky fake gold painted shoes to make money.

Expand full comment

I thought the bond was only to stay enforcement until the appeals court makes a decision. It just makes it easier to collect if he loses.

Expand full comment

Not to forget that WinRed, a private for-profit company that all the Rs are directed to use, takes its own cut of 3.94% before anybody else sees the money. Anybody but this guy Lansing and whoever his backers are, hmmm? In the room where it happens! https://youtu.be/ZN6mp2NjMhs?t=96

Expand full comment

"The order in which entities will receive funds from big donors through what is known as the Trump 47 Committee..."

(Insert Human Centipede diagram with Trump at the front of the line)

Expand full comment

OH PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE SOMEONE GET A PIC OF THAT $800K PER PLATE "BIG DINNER"!!! I wanna revel in the gloriousness of that empty room with only sad Trump staffers and bored servers standing around in it. PLEASE

Expand full comment

He should take a Udemy course on how to unlock the caps lock key.

Expand full comment

"In practice, what that means is that even modestly large contributors"

"I don't know if I can afford to be a large contributor."

"That's fine, we also have a 'moderately large' tier."

"Is that better than small?"

"It's closer to smaller large than moderately larger large, but not as small as moderately moderate."

"That sounds great, I'll take that."

Expand full comment