The Trump campaign sent “millions” of emails to Trump supporters about how they needed to “step up” to protect election integrity, according to the Jan. 6 committee. The money would go to the so-called the “Official Election Defense Fund” — which doesn’t appear to have actually existed, according to testimony.
The fund — which, again, did not actually exist — raised $250 million, most of which did not go to election litigation, but to Trump’s newly created Save America PAC. The PAC then made contributions to Mark Meadows’ charity, to a conservative organization employing former Trump staffers, to the Trump Hotel Collection, and to the company that organized the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6.
Video of what the January 6 Committee found:
Trump campaign officials admitting they were ripping off Republican voters by asking them to donate money to a fund that didn't exist to overturn an election they knew they lost.pic.twitter.com/s4x40w831M
— Robbi Fahey (@robbi_fahey) July 27, 2023