The Trump campaign paid about $540,000 in legal fees in July, the lowest total of the year so far.
On Aug. 20, a number of committees associated with former President Donald Trump’s 2024 run for the White House published financial disclosures with the Federal Election Commission. The filings showed three groups covered legal expenses in July.
As usual, the qualified leadership political action committee Save America covered the majority of Trump’s legal expenses. It paid about $489,500 to various firms for either legal consulting or reimbursements for legal expenses.
However, according to federal records, Save America ended July owing about $2.7 million to various law firms and consultancies for legal consulting and reimbursement for legal expenses.
Considerably smaller amounts, $25,000 and about $27,500, were paid for similar services by the Trump-allied super PAC Make America Great Again Inc. and the principal campaign committee Donald J. Trump for President 2024 Inc, according to FEC disclosures.
In July, Save America raised about $5.9 million and spent about $1.7 million in July. The PAC entered August with $7.2 million in cash on hand.
According to federal records, the largest source of income for Save America was the joint fundraising committee Trump 47 Committee Inc. It sent about $5.9 million to the PAC during the month.
The month marked the second straight month of declining legal spending and could be indicative of a quieter legal period for Trump.
The first half of 2024 was full of legal drama for the former president. It reached a crescendo when Trump received multiple felony convictions from a New York jury in late May.
In the second half of 2024, Trump could be facing a federal criminal trial in Washington that relates to his role in the Capitol breach of Jan. 6, 2021.
A Florida-based case concerning the former president’s handling of classified documents was dismissed in July but the ruling was appealed by the Department of Justice.
Trump faces a state trial in Georgia alleging that he conspired to subvert the results of the 2020 election in the Peach State.
The former president denies any wrongdoing and has repeatedly called the charges against him politically motivated.
On Aug. 12, Trump said he was planning on suing the DOJ for $100 million in damages over the FBI’s 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago property.
