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Before Donald Trump was indicted (again!) on Tuesday, presidential super PACs released their financial reports for the first half of the year, with a surprising result: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ affiliated PAC dominated the field, raising $130 million. The reports also had additional bad news for Trump. His joint fundraising committee—the official campaign and leadership PAC—garnered nearly $54 million, much of it from his individual small-dollar cult members.
The big problem for Trump is that he burned through $57 million in the past six months by paying for legal costs, an amount significantly higher than his campaign has raised. A second super PAC supporting him, Make America Great Again Inc., had an even higher burn rate. It raised $14.6 million and spent $25.6 million. A significant chunk of that, $12 million, was reported as a “refund” to Trump’s Save America leadership PAC, the entity paying most of the legal bills.
