RNC Member Seeks To Block Paying Trump’s Legal Bills

The Associated Press reports:

At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the organization by pushing to keep the committee neutral until Trump is officially the presidential nominee and avoid picking up his legal bills.

Two draft resolutions are being circulated by Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, for consideration at the RNC’s upcoming March meeting in Houston. Barbour said support for the resolutions among RNC members is growing but he does not yet have the needed cosponsors, and any resolutions would ultimately be nonbinding.

“The RNC has one job. That’s winning elections,” Barbour said. “I believe RNC funds should be spent solely on winning elections, on political expenses, not legal bills.”

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Barbour last appeared here in 2020 when he said that the then-raging COVID pandemic was no reason to cancel Republican National Convention since it was “safe” to shop at Walmart.

An RNC member is trying to stop the party from paying Donald Trump’s legal bills https://t.co/NUzZNZxfiK

— The Associated Press (@AP) February 24, 2024