Trump Team To Create New Legal Defense Fund

The New York Times reports:

Former President Donald J. Trump’s team is creating a legal-defense fund to handle some of the crush of legal bills stemming from the investigations and criminal indictments involving him and a number of employees and associates, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

The fund, which is expected to be called the Patriot Legal Defense Fund Inc., will be led by Michael Glassner, a longtime Trump political adviser, according to the people familiar with the planning, who were not authorized to discuss it publicly. Another Trump aide who worked at the Trump Organization and then in Mr. Trump’s administration, Lynne Patton, will also be involved, the people said.

It is unclear how broad a group of people the legal-defense fund will cover, but one person said it was not expected to cover Mr. Trump’s own legal bills.

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You may recall that Lynne Patton is the wedding planner who was given a high-profile HHS job for which she was utterly unqualified. In 2021 she was fined and banned from any government service for four years. Patton is fond of claiming that Hillary Clinton had Jeffrey Epstein murdered.

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— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 30, 2023