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Trump Isn’t Spending on ‘Audits’ or GOP Candidates

August 3, 2021 at 9:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Six months since leaving office, former President Donald Trump is sitting on a $102 million war chest,” Politico reports.

“But having whipped his supporters into a frenzy with pledges to overturn the election and promises to support Republican candidates in the midterms, he is not spending his campaign money on either.”

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