RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump assured Fox News’ Martha MacCallum Thursday that the committee was “not paying any legal bills” after the DNC chair made the accusation.
Lara Trump’s father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, is facing hundreds of millions of dollars of verdicts from two civil lawsuits filed by E. Jean Carroll and a civil fraud trial in New York, plus the mounting attorneys’ fees from defending himself in these civil actions and his four separate criminal cases.
CNBC recently reported that “a growing number” of Trump allies on the Republican National Committee “want to help pay his legal bills.”
MacCallum asked for Lara Trump’s response after playing a clip of the Democratic National Committee’s Chair Jaime Harrison:
As they say, the RNC is down bad. They’re taking out lines of credit, laying off staff. They can’t even afford to spend money on their races down ballot. But, but, this is the good thing: they are paying Donald Trump’s legal bills. So as I said, with you earlier, man, go, Lara, go! Girl, you are doing it. You are knocking it out of the park. Keep doing it.
“That’s very cute,” Lara Trump responded. “We’re not paying any legal bills from the RNC.”
She then pivoted to how much money the RNC has raised under her leadership.
“Actually, this
Before Lara Trump was voted in as RNC co-chair after being nominated by her father-in-law, she told Newsmax, “Every single penny will go to the number one and the only job of the RNC: that is electing Donald J. Trump as president of the United States and saving this country.”
An RNC committee member proposed a resolution last week that would have formally barred the committee from paying the former president’s legal bills, but that proposal was defeated, according to CNBC.
Watch the clip above via Fox News.