Comment by Nightmare_Tonic on 31/07/2023 at 20:12 UTC

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Does Trump's campaign's lack of money / current legal debt affect in any real way his ability to hit the campaign trail this election cycle? Can it actually harm his efforts to grab votes, or will the GOP / donors just bankroll him?

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Comment by [deleted] at 31/07/2023 at 22:29 UTC

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This is a good question, and it is a question that we can expect is going to surface again and again in the coming months because:

Trump is using political organizations to bribe witnesses, suborn perjury from witnesses, pay the legal costs of co-conspirators

Trump’s use of campaign funds to commit wire fraud felonies and to commit the above crimes are under investigation by Jack Smith.

Trump is defrauding donors by claiming that only a small portion of campaign funds are being spent for legal expenses (which is allowed for campaign-related legal expenses), but in fact large amounts and huge percentages of campaign contributions are being laundered to other organizations to pay tens of millions of dollars to bankroll criminal activities and personal legal expenses (not allowed for political organizations!)

Trump is attempting to conceal the financing of his criminal schemes with campaign funds with money laundering schemes, which are also illegal.

So, crimes are being committed to obstruct investigations of other crimes, financed by funds obtained by committing crimes, and the laundering of the funds is being achieved by means of yet another set of crimes.

This is called “racketeering” or the systematic and organized commission of multiple felonies for the purpose of furthering a criminal enterprise.

Just for this scheme alone, Trump and his conspirators should go to prison for at least 20 years just for this racketeering scheme, but he is doing it to try to obstruct the investigation into another racketeering conspiracy (Jan 6 sedition conspiracy).