Chump Change

Among the many MAGAfestations I don’t understand: Why do people give their money to a guy who claims to be a billionaire? Isn’t the whole point of being a billionaire that you have 1,000 million dollars, an almost inexhaustible supply, and so would never have to take anything from anybody? Why do people with one, or two, or even zero million dollars hand some of them over to a guy who claims to already possess far more than they’ll ever see?

Yet here we are. The AP looked at the public records and determined:

“rump’s Save America political action committee has paid nearly $37 million to more than 60 law firms and individual attorneys since January 2022, Federal Election Commission records show. That amounts to more than half of the PAC’s total expenditures, according to an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance filings, and represents a staggering sum compared to other political organizations.

If they donated $1 apiece, and one were born every minute, that would represent more than 70 years’ worth of suckers. Of course, that’s just the amount he claims to have spent. We have no way of knowing how many he’s stiffed, or if he’s made any payments to anyone at all.