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RNC tells Trump it will stop paying his legal bills if he announces 2024 run before midterms

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  • The RNC may stop paying for former President Trump’s legal bills if he announces a 2024 run ahead of the November midterms.
  • In 2021, the RNC committed to paying nearly $2 million in Trump’s legal bills.
  • Some Republicans worry Trump announcing his 2024 bid may torpedo the GOP’s midterm chances.

The Republican National Committee has told former President Donald Trump it will no longer pay his legal bills if he announces a 2024 White House bid ahead of the November midterms, according to a Thursday report from ABC News.

The news outlet reported that the RNC has paid nearly $2 million in Trump’s legal expenses since last fall.

The RNC is currently bankrolling several legal cases for Trump, including personal lawsuits and government investigations into him. That flow of cash would end once he announces his candidacy for president in 2024. Some see the move as an incentive for Trump to delay announcing his candidacy at least until after the 2022 midterm elections, which Republicans are already poised to win.

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel has previously stated that the Republican Party cannot be biased in favor of any one candidate in the party’s presidential primary.

“The party has to stay neutral,” McDaniel said in January. “I’m not telling anybody to run or not to run in 2024.” However she has since reaffirmed that Trump “still leads the party.”

Top-level members of the Republican Party have encouraged Trump to delay announcing his candidacy until after the midterms. Many read that as Republicans fearing that a Trump announcement would upset the status quo of voters focused on inflation, gas prices and President Joe Biden’s low approval rating.

“My point to him has always been, ‘Let’s go win ’22,’” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Tuesday of his conversations with Trump, adding that he encouraged Trump to hold off on an announcement.

Trump stated earlier this month that he has already made up his mind on whether to run, and that the main decision is about when to announce his candidacy.

“I would say my big decision will be whether I go before or after. You understand what that means?” he told New York magazine earlier this month. “Midterms,” he continued in the interview. “Do I go before or after? That will be my big decision.”

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23 Comments

23 Comments

  1. CharlieSeattle

    July 29, 2022 at 7:13 pm

    The RNC turncoat M.F.’ers can rot in hell!

    • The Devilbat

      July 31, 2022 at 9:49 pm

      Exactly. Nothing in my mind would make a republican victory more likely than if the republican voters knew that President Trump was going to run again. The RINOS are working with the democrats and the totally corrupt FBI to stop him from running again. That is what all this is all about. May the RINOS rot in Hell.

    • Feisty Granny

      August 2, 2022 at 8:25 pm

      So we vote every scumbag RNC member out of office and put conservative veterans and retired military and law enforcement in their place. We know now how to catch the election cheaters. I imagine more of them will be exposed and prosecuted after the November elections. We are many against a few. Wake up, patriots!!!

  2. Talltexan

    July 31, 2022 at 7:14 am

    Mmm…..yes…I can see the point and a distraction it would be. Meaning leftist diners and the DNC would only become that more inflamed. I am more worried about yet another round of voter fraud. Democrats do not take to “repaired gates” as like cattle they will always react to a new gate with a different design. Lots of intense work has been done towards preventing another voting disaster and the focus and viligsnce should be towards that instead of candidate filings or announcements. My message to the RNC chair is she should enforce this delay across the board and not point any specific references just to Trump alone.

  3. Connie Mays

    July 31, 2022 at 6:45 pm

    Am I totally stupid? Would someone please explain to me why it matters when President Trump announces his intent to run for re-election? I can’t believe it’s going to make any difference to the voters??

    • Cebie Dorsey

      August 1, 2022 at 3:13 pm

      I can certainly see the RNCs position. Right now, President Trump is a wild card. If he announces before the midterms, the logic of liberals is to do everything in their power to thwart him. Remember the extent they went to to defeat him in 2020? They are of a single-minded purpose becasue they hate him so much. Don’t believe it? Look at the imbecile they put in office just to get him out & the time & money wasted on their impeachment shenanigans.
      Remember: Liberals can’t use all of their brains. They get stuck in one mode & to hell with the facts or the details!

    • Feisty Granny

      August 2, 2022 at 8:27 pm

      No difference! We will still vote for him!

  4. MikefromTexas

    July 31, 2022 at 7:22 pm

    AI hope Trump waits till after the mid terms before he announces.

  5. MorningStar

    July 31, 2022 at 9:40 pm

    Isn’t this the same type of manipulative back stabbing Trump had to put up with during his term as President and which also, in part, cost him reelection?
    Perhaps he should not publicly endorse other candidates until after the midterms. How’s that for poetic justice?

  6. CLETUS

    July 31, 2022 at 11:14 pm

    I say to Donald Trump who is the rightfully elected president of The United States Of America would you tell your soldiers to hesitate before battle? No officer in the military would do so. Maybe a coward would. So advance ,take the lead , bring all Americans to victory. Make America Great Again. I am old but can still hold and shot a gun to defend America. The democrats are against the 2nd. amendment. You Donald Trump have asked a lot of the American People. Now I say to you , Stand Beside Me And Be The Leader I Support. J F K was a great man, Fought for America. Great words he spoke ask not what your country can do for you. But what you will do for your country. I have said what I will do. What will you do Mr. Donald Trump, President Of The United States Of America?

  7. Michael O'Connor

    July 31, 2022 at 11:40 pm

    Funny how the RNC can tell Trump what to do but can’t do the same for the Rino’s, you know people like Susan Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Graham, McConnell and the list goes on. Put up or shut up.

  8. William Z.

    August 1, 2022 at 1:17 am

    WOW!! I can’t believe you people continue to allow yourself to be under the spell of the Trump Kool Aid you’ve been feeding on for the last 5 years!
    Have ALL of you been busy w your heads in the sand while the Dem. Committee has been holding the Jan. 6 hearings?? No? Just wearing blinders & ear plugs while you continue in your blind denial?? I’ve watched & heard Long Term Republicans who worked worked INSIDE The White House w Trump give their candid testimony one after another after another. Guess what? Your hero, Ex. Pres. Trump, committed SEDITION (TREASON from inside the govt.).
    For the very 1st. time in our American history, an American President refused to peacefully turn over power after being (honestly) defeated in an election! & don’t even try repeating Trump’s out & out LIE that the election was stolen! Each & every court hearing Trump & his lawyers went to DENIED their lawsuits because they HAD NO Evidence despite all the recounts, etc. WAKE UP you idiots! Trump knew the election was lost even before the polls closed! Find another blind cause to be angry & hating about because this one has been proved, over & over to have been a giant con!!

    • Susan G Rowe

      August 1, 2022 at 11:40 am

      Trump DID NOT COMMIT TREASON. The Rhino’s and the Dems should all be placed against a wall and shot.. They all comitted TREASON.. Trump won that election and not a sane person can say he didn’t.. He didn’t turn over power because HE was still President…. far from being a blind cause… Cannot wait until he is back in power.. Biden is a huge waste of spaced

    • William Woods

      August 1, 2022 at 12:16 pm

      Typical liberal speaking out of his behind. You need to stop watching fake news outlets

    • Hillary Clinton

      August 1, 2022 at 4:57 pm

      Who in their right mind would vote for a failed long term elderly politician? Look at our country now.The economy is awful.People can’t afford food or gas prices. The borders are allowing illegals from all over the world to enter.Crime is up. Diseases are reentering our country. Drug trafficking is running rampant. And you call us idiots. Look in the mirror. Life was good two years ago with Trump in office. You are the cool aid drinking liberal or democrat that can’t see the real world and what is happening to this country under this ol Joe We have become a laughing stock to other country leaders. Wake up

    • Feisty Granny

      August 2, 2022 at 8:31 pm

      BS and BUFFALO BISCUITS. Do some research and stop watching the Fake News. Or are you a shill for the DS??

    • Roy Burnam

      August 2, 2022 at 11:10 pm

      Your the idiot for believing the lying news media! Trump will always be the greatest president ever and Joe Blow will go down as the very worst ever! And the election was stolen!!

  9. Patty

    August 1, 2022 at 4:01 am

    Wow! William, you just keep believing your drivel! WHO is the traitor, the seditionist, the liar, the crook? Good old groper joe! Look what he has done to our country in just 18 months! And you still say Trump is the bad guy? Wake up dude, you are so off base you aren’t even on the field.

  10. Joe

    August 1, 2022 at 11:35 am

    Well William Z you nailed it. A shame the other folks here haven’t figured it out yet. The Kool Aid must of have something in it.

  11. Sick and Tierd of listening to empty headed MORONS

    August 2, 2022 at 4:36 pm

    Hey NO BRAIN TALLTEXAN, the only FRAUD so far was done by your F—ING IDIOT REPUBLICAN’S when they started passing them asshole bills to make it harder for people to vote, so get off the F—ING FRAUD WAGON and shut the F— UP about it, he LOST, he knows it, you know it, and all the lame brain idiot republican’s know it. Hey FARTHEST STAR IN THE UNIVERSE you babbling idiot, the only JUSTICE that WASN’T served was he DIDN’T get impeached, because all you P—-‘S WERE AFRAID of the BIG ASSHOLE. SUSAN G. ROWE says I just pulled my EMPTY HEAD out of CHUMP’S ASS to make this statement that I know sounds very STUPID so I’ll just stick my EMPTY HEAD BACK UP THERE. stop using HILLARY’S name you bitch, if that FAT F— YOU CALL A PRESIDENT had given UKRAINE all the weapons they needed instead of trying to get them to help him STEAL the presidency, and took care of the COVID PROBLEM instead of LYING about it, RUSSIA’S ASS would be kicked already an the country wouldn’t be in this mess. I find it amassing that all you F—ING IDIOT republicans find it so easy to blame a sitting president for all the F— UPS of the last ASSHOLE that was there.

    • Jes1949

      August 2, 2022 at 7:08 pm

      Your father should beat off on a thorn bush. Then many you would not be the foul mouth person you are.

      • Feisty Granny

        August 2, 2022 at 8:34 pm

        Read the first sentence but dropped the rest. I refuse to wallow in the filth from that person. You can sure tell he’s a Biden democrat.

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