Ben Shapiro accuses Donald Trump of “laundering the money from his campaign into his legal funds”
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Citation From the August 18, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Now, you may think that the election of 2024 is about, you know, getting rid of Joe Biden. But according to Matt, and I assume according to much of team Trump, what it's really about is you funding Donald Trump's legal bills. Now, listen, I have a lot of sympathy for the fact that Trump is being victimized by the legal establishment. I've made that incredibly clear over the course of the last several months. I think the case in Manhattan is BS, like, overt BS, I think that the January 6th case being brought by Jack Smith in DC is a mischarge. I think the case being brought by Fani Willis, this RICO case, is an overcharge and is a misuse of RICO likely because she doesn't actually have a criminal enterprise. And I think that the classified documents case might be a good legal case, but also is obviated by the fact that they didn't prosecute Hillary Clinton for pretty much the exact same thing. With all of that said, why should 2024 be about litigation as opposed to, you know, elections? I don't understand.
My interest as an American citizen is primarily in Joe Biden not being President of the United States running the DOJ via Merrick Garland. That is predominantly my interest. I certainly have an interest in Donald Trump fighting his legal battles. That's fine. Is that my primary interest as an American citizen who pays taxes? Is that, like, the thing I care about the most? If I have to prioritize, is it Donald Trump's legal cases, or is it beating Joe Biden? If it's Donald Trump's legal cases, that's fine. The dude's got a legal fund. He's not asked anybody to donate to his legal fund. Instead, he's sort of laundering the money from his campaign into his legal funds. You give money to his campaign and then he uses it for his legal costs. Is that why you're donating, is because you care that much about his legal fund? Fine. He should open up a legal fund and you can give to it. Or do you care about beating Joe Biden? Donald Trump could theoretically win all of his legal cases and still not beat Joe Biden.