{"id":1980095,"date":"2023-07-21T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-rips-trump-family-as-grifters-after-report-that-donations-are-going-to-legal-fees\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T22:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T02:51:41","slug":"chris-christie-rips-trump-family-as-grifters-after-report-that-donations-are-going-to-legal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-rips-trump-family-as-grifters-after-report-that-donations-are-going-to-legal-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie slams Trump family as grifters over donations for legal fees."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-christie-rips-trump-family-as-grifters-after-report-that-donations-are-going-to-legal-fees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980095&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former New Jersey Gov.\u200d Chris Christie Calls Out Trump&#8217;s Diversion of\u2063 Campaign Funds \u200cfor Legal Fees<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Grifting is a Trump \u200dfamily tradition, \u2064and the latest scam \u200dis his \u2062campaign,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris \u200bChristie<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took to Twitter \u200don \u200cFriday to criticize former President Donald Trump for allegedly using funds raised\u2062 for his 2024 presidential campaign to cover legal fees for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-rips-trump-family-as-grifters-after-report-that-donations-are-going-to-legal-fees\/\" title=\"Chris Christie slams Trump family as grifters over donations for legal fees.\">upcoming criminal \u200ctrials<\/a>. Christie shared a report from the Washington Post, highlighting the issue.<\/p>\n<h3>A Self-Proclaimed\u200b Billionaire Swindling Campaign Donations<\/h3>\n<p>Christie expressed his concern\u200d over\u200d Trump&#8217;s actions, stating, &#8220;This self-proclaimed billionaire is swindling 50% of his\u200b campaign donations to pay for his personal\u2062 legal \u200bfees. We don&#8217;t need a con-artist; \u2063we\u2062 need a leader\u2062 who \u2064can beat Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christie, \u2062who recently \u2062entered the 2024 GOP presidential race, challenged Trump, the current Republican front-runner whom he had previously supported and advised.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump \u200bFaces Multiple Investigations<\/h3>\n<p>Trump is currently under investigation for three \u2064major issues: the election, the January 6th \u200driot, and his handling of classified documents.<\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Diversion of Campaign Funds<\/h3>\n<p>Christie&#8217;s comments come in response \u2063to reports\u2063 that Trump \u2063has been\u2062 diverting over half of the funds\u200b raised for \u2063his 2024 presidential campaign to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marriott-att-airbnbheres-the-list-of-corporations-announcing-they-wont-donate-to-gop-lawmakers-who-objected-to-electoral-votes-from-contested-states\/\" title=\"Marriott, AT&#038;T, Airbnb\u2026Here\u2019s The List Of Corporations Announcing They Won\u2019t Donate To GOP Lawmakers Who Objected To Electoral Votes From Contested States\">political action committee<\/a> (PAC) in order to cover his\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-diverting-more-donations-from-pac-to-pay-for-mounting-legal-fees\/\" title=\"Trump using more PAC donations to cover increasing legal expenses.\">personal legal fees<\/a>. According to the Washington Post, Trump raised over $35 million between March and June, with $17.7 million going to his presidential campaign and the rest to his PAC, Save America. This PAC\u200c has previously been used to cover legal bills.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recently\u2062 adjusted the percentage of donations allocated to \u2064Save America, with 90% going to \u200bthe presidential campaign \u200band\u2062 10% to the PAC, as\u2064 reported\u2063 by the New York Times. \u2063A Trump spokesman, Steven Cheung, stated that \u200bthe campaign aims to spend every \u200ddonated dollar \u2062in the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-revives-obama-broadband-boondoggle\/\" title=\"Biden Revives Obama Broadband Boondoggle\">cost-effective manner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been revealed that millions of dollars from donors have already\u200c been used to cover legal fees\u2063 through the Save America PAC, which \u2064is one of the top Republican fundraising organizations. Filings show that $16 million from the PAC has been allocated for \u2064legal-related payments\u200b in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>As the controversy surrounding Trump&#8217;s use of campaign funds continues, it \u2063raises questions about the integrity and transparency of his financial practices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK\u2062 HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie criticized ex-President Donald Trump for allegedly using funds from his 2024 campaign to pay for legal defense in upcoming criminal trials. Christie tweeted, &#8220;Trump&#8217;s campaign is just another example of the family&#8217;s long-standing grifting tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}