There’s a telling admission in the fine print of Trump’s demand for donations to his election lawsuits

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The Trump campaign has solicited donations from supporters to fund lawsuits challenging the results of the presidential election in a flurry of fundraising pitches, but at least half of the money will go toward paying down its debt, according to the fine print.

Trump refuses to concede his loss as he pushes a number of legally dubious challenges in several states which narrowly voted for President-elect Joe Biden. Judges in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania have already dismissed multiple legal challenges from the campaign, though Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani teased up to 10 additional election-related lawsuits after a press conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping company adjoining a porn store and a crematorium.

The Trump campaign has relentlessly flooded supporters with appeals for donations to pay for the legal effort, reportedly firing off more than a dozen emails on Sunday alone. Continue reading.

Trump’s ag bailout is going to the starving farmers of… Minneapolis?

To the unlettered, Donald Trump’s trade war with China doesn’t seem to fit the technical definition of “winning.” The average consumer will pay an extra $800 this year due to his import taxes on everything from shoes to televisions. And a spooked Wall Street is trading like it hasn’t stopped binging on cocaine and hookers since New Year’s.

Then again, Trump launched his career with a meager $413 million stake from daddy, beginning his meteoric rise to occasionally successful businessman. That’s why he’s president, and you and I are not.

So to lessen the casualties of this war, the president has turned to a tried and true method: the socialist redistribution of $25 billion in taxpayer money to those who need it most, big city executives.

View the complete September 3 article by Pete Kotz on The CityPages website here.