Trump campaign goes broke as Republican funds used to pay off legal bills | Ryan Wiggins
Times Radio
Aug 31, 2024
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'They are running out of money because they are trying to pay his legal bills instead of campaign.'
Republican campaign finances, which not only pay for Trump's campaign but also those of congressional candidates, are being used to pay for the former president's legal bills, says the Lincoln Project's Ryan Wiggins.
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- they are running out of money because
- they are trying to you know pay his
- legal bills instead of campaign here's
- the thing with moderates and the people
- that he's got to still get that's really
- really not great I mean this is a man
- who has talked about how he prefers um
- people who didn't get caught in mil
- military service he has called people
- who have died in military service
- suckers and losers he's called people
- who have um you know received the
- highest honor we can grant our military
- as not as important as you know a
- Billionaire's wife I mean this is a guy
- who has shown nothing but disdain and
- disrespect to our military so it's not
- surprising that he would show disrespect
- to them once you know they are they've
- they've paid the ultimate sacrifice so I
- mean it's it's damaging to the the
- moderates who are still looking at him
- and going wait a minute like you are
- supposed to be the commanderin-chief if
- we elect you you are going to be in
- control of all of our military services
- and you don't even have respect for the
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- people who wear the uniform so that is
- that's not great but his base you could
- you could really shoot a man in the
- middle of Fifth Avenue and they would
- still vote for him so it's it's tough to
- tell and sad that it's tough to tell the
- military doesn't vote as a block
- veterans don't vote as a block but they
- do have Fox News on it all of the bases
- and I mean back in
- 2022 the Lincoln project actually went
- on a campaign to try to get that to end
- because you know they they deserve to
- have real news and Fox News is
- propaganda so I mean it's they are they
- tend to to kind of lean more to the
- right um you know as a military as
- someone who is in the military I mean
- you were taught authoritarianism you
- were taught hierarchy you are taught
- that kind of of situation so they do
- tend to lean more to the right but I
- don't know how you could vote for
- someone who is so disrespectful to your
- fellow soldiers Trump is not good
- reliable or professional he has hired
- people who are just like him do not be
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- fooled the people who are on his
- campaign are on his campaign because
- they completely support his thuggery
- they support you know I mean Trump wants
- to run the country like a Mafia Boss and
- the people who are working with him and
- his campaign staff are just like that
- and so none of this is surprising I mean
- it's it's surprising that it wasn't
- Trump that pushed them that he actually
- let the staff do it so no I'm not I
- don't find any of this surprising I
- don't think it's a good look for him I
- don't think I mean when you're
- contrasting that with the joy and the
- happiness and the welcoming kind of feel
- that the that the other side Harrison
- and walls have I don't think that there
- that it's endearing Americans to the
- Trump campaign that that they're
- behaving this way they're running out of
- money in general and I mean I'd like to
- talk about kind of how this is is
- affecting the Republican party as a
- whole so I mean his daughter-in-law is
- running the Republican National
- Convention he they run the national
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- Republican party and they're taking
- money that should be going to Senate
- races and house races and other other
- races and they're putting it all into
- the Trump campaign to pay off his legal
- bills and I mean right now he can't even
- go to many of the major swing States
- because he has debt there where he
- hasn't paid for you know the rallies
- he's done or to to keep his plane there
- or for even law enforcement that have
- protected him in these places so they
- are running out of money because they
- are trying to you know pay legal bills
- instead of campaign and you know that is
- a really sad thing too I mean you should
- not have a candidate who is supposedly
- you know the head of your party who is
- draining all of your finances because he
- can't get out of legal trouble he can't
- keep his mouth shut he can't he can't
- obey the law and so I mean this is this
- is this is a problem for him I mean he
- is he's grifting off of his own his own
- base I mean with these nfts and these
- trading cards and oh Trump shoes and all
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- of this like this is not this isn't how
- it's done and this is not a a a good
- thing I think it is it is really really
- really really embarrassing for his base
- that they just he keeps taking advantage
- of them especially when his base here
- typically is not as college educated and
- is not as wealthy and so I mean it is
- it's it's taking from people who
- actually really need that those funds
- and a lot of them are on government
- services so I mean this it it's a
- horrible thing he's doing but not
- surprising in any way shape reform so
- you what you've seen here is so many
- members of Congress both in the house
- and the Senate have um Republican
- members have stepped out of their seats
- and they have said that they're not
- running for reelection and part of the
- reason they're not running for
- reelection is because in order to run
- for reelection to to win as a republican
- in a primary they were going to have to
- back Trump further and know that that
- Trump was completely going to not have
- their back when it came to their own
- races I mean there they know that
- there's not going to be money there and
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- so what Trump is really doing back in
- 2016 I mean several of us who were all
- who have always been never trumpers have
- said Trump is going to kill the
- Republican party and he has killed the
- Republican party I mean it is it it
- cannot rebuild to what it ever was
- because of what he has done to it in in
- just the past eight
- years it would but I mean I will tell
- you this blue wave that you're seeing in
- America after that came after the repu
- or the Democratic National convention is
- very real I happen to be at the
- Democratic National Convention and as a
- former Republican that was quite an
- experience but it was like plugging
- yourself into a power line I mean the
- energy is there and Harris and walls are
- so undefined by most Americans that you
- know they that Trump is actually
- suffering from what Hillary suffered
- from back in 2016 he's a known entity
- people know who he is and he has a
- ceiling because of that Harrison walls
- don't have a ceiling people don't know
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- them and what they're learning about
- them they're really really liking
- they're seeing Moder they're seeing two
- moderate people who are putting the
- country before party they're putting the
- country before politics they're putting
- the country first and Americans are
- ready to smile again we're ready to
- laugh again we're ready to not have to
- be so concerned about what our elected
- officials are doing we want to go back
- to our kids soccer games we want to be
- you know cooking dinner we don't want to
- be focused constantly on oh my gosh is
- the head of our country
- going to blow up our country what is the
- head of our country going to do to
- Foreign Affairs and to our geopolitics
- and to our allies I mean all of the
- Americans are smarter than than what
- Trump gives us credit for and I and I
- just I don't see most of America wanting
- to go back I I see them wanting to move
- forward and wanting to you know regain
- some sort of stature with our allies and
- people throughout the throughout the
- world we don't want people to be worried
- about America um we don't want to be
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- worried about America either yes I I
- mean listen Trump is a dictator he's a
- wab be dictator luckily right now
- American democracy is holding strong and
- keeping him from becoming a a full-on
- dictator but he looks up to people like
- Putin he looks up to people like Kim
- jnon he looks up to the way they treat
- their people and so I mean it is it is
- not far-fetched to say that he would be
- the same kind of leader if he takes
- office he was for four years when when
- he had office I mean and and like I said
- America's tired of it we are tired of it
- we want our lives back we want our
- democracy back we want our rights back I
- mean especially women in this country
- we've had it we have had it and so that
- is why you're seeing a lot of this
- energy and I mean the Harris and walls
- campaign is not just unifying the
- Democrats it's unifying the Republicans
- that are moderate Republicans and saying
- you know what we can stand some bad
- policy for four years that we may not
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- agree with what we cannot stand is to
- lose everything that America is and that
- is the the the thing that's on the
- ballot this year is it it is Trump or it
- is democracy it is Trump or it is
- America it is Trump or it is it is our
- geopolitics and our relationship with
- our allies which do you want and I I
- truly believe and I mean I think you saw
- this on the last night of the DNC when
- kamla took the nomination you saw
- Republican after Republican after
- Republican
- speaking ahead of her and and telling
- America listen you don't have to be a
- Democrat to vote for KLA Harris this
- year you have to be a patriot you have
- to be an American you have to want
- democracy and and I think that that
- really is the message is that you know
- and I think most of America is hearing
- that message she is his worst nightmare
- I mean she is a woman she is a younger
- woman she knows what she's doing she is
- well spoken she has been a prosecutor
- she is she is a black woman and he has
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- no idea how to run against that he has
- no idea how to run against that without
- pointing out every single thing the
- Democrats have said for a long time
- about Trump's Republican party and that
- is you know they're they are white
- supremacists they are white nationalists
- they are Christian nationalists he can't
- run they're misogynistic you know they
- they they're in a war against women I
- mean you can't fight that and fight her
- effectively with the messaging that he
- wants to use against her I mean just
- yesterday he said something incredibly
- crass on Truth social about you know
- sexual favors she may have done to get
- to where she is women are tired of
- hearing that we would have to use sexual
- favors to get ahead women have brains
- we're very very smart people we are
- equals and she is she is above him in
- every single way and so when he says
- these kinds of things when he does this
- kind of the things that he has always
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- done to to try to divide this country
- and to divide people against him or
- against her right now are backfiring
- because he doesn't know what he's doing
- and running against her she has policiy
- she has ideas she has Joy she has
- support he has none of those things I
- don't think you've ever seen Trump as a
- quote stable genius as he would like for
- you to believe that he is the man is I
- mean right now his brain is broken I
- mean he is having having to fight um for
- his freedom just like Americans are
- trying to fight for ours so if Trump
- wins Trump ends up or Trump loses Trump
- ends up in jail probably for the rest of
- his life and having that kind of
- pressure on you plus the age plus the
- fact that he's just not an intelligent
- man to begin with yes it is it is
- showing signs of stumbling and of
- getting confused on a national stage and
- not really knowing who he's running
- against I mean trying to claim that
- Biden's coming back and you know all all
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- of this all of this I think that yeah
- you can't diagnose dementia from afar
- but you can diagnose stupidity and you
- can diagnose you know ignorance and and
- I think that that those are things that
- Trump's really strong on um and I think
- that you know like I said his mental
- health is only going to get worse as the
- pressure continues to build on him I
- think this was kind of the point of of
- Biden really taking a step back and
- saying you know what maybe it's time to
- pass the torch and I think that it's
- America one of the things you know when
- I was at the DNC and Biden took the
- stage you know I was sitting right next
- to my friend mentor and the the founder
- of Lincoln project Rick Wilson and he
- said you know make a note of this this
- will be the last time you see a baby
- boomer take the stage at the DNC the the
- Democratic party is wanting to move
- forward and it's wanting to have a
- younger voice it wants and that all of
- America we want stability and I mean
- that's the thing you can't trust Trump
- to handle a a bad poll that comes in
- without throwing ketchup at the wall you
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- know I mean how is he going to handle
- you know threats from you know our
- enemies and and you know he is so easy
- to bait I mean that is what Lincoln
- project does we spend our time and our
- money baiting him into making bad
- decisions for his campaign and making
- unforced errors that cost him votes you
- know if we can do that you don't think a
- foreign government can do that I mean
- it's very very dangerous for our
- national politic and our national
- security for us to have someone who is
- so unstable at the top and and that's
- what we're looking at again I mean hell
- back in in 2020 I mean millions of
- people died because of his inability to
- handle a crisis we can't have a person
- like that leading this country and
- leading the Free World I think that the
- Republican party and it's my former
- party I think that they have terminal
- cancer I think that it started off as
- stage one when the Tea Party came in
- into power through Sarah Palin and all
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- of that but I believe that it went
- untreated and I believe that right now
- it is metastasized in a way that it it
- cannot just be cut out Trump is not the
- cancer Trump is a symptom of the cancer
- I mean you also see people like Matt
- Gates and Marjorie Taylor green and Ted
- Cruz and I mean there's there's a whole
- Maga had Maga and that movement is the
- cancer and unfortunately the party
- consists mostly of Magan now I mean what
- Trump did that was very very unfortunate
- but a very smart strategy for what he
- wanted to to do in this country is he
- made people question what is real and
- what is not people don't know whether or
- not they can believe their the news
- anymore they don't believe they don't
- know what what what could they can trust
- and with that what he's done is
- completely destabilized his party I mean
- they have have spiraled into conspiracy
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- theories they've spiraled into into just
- cruelty and and you know things that
- just do not represent what Americans
- want to represent and that is you know
- the city on the hill you know the the
- the the Embrace for the rest of the
- world and so I mean I think I think that
- you know what he has done to to his
- party means there's no coming back for
- the Republican party I mean this country
- is always more stable when we have two
- stable parties right now the Republicans
- are completely off the rails and I don't
- see a way back for them
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