Nikki Haley Says She’s Worried Trump Will Use The RNC As A Personal ‘Piggy Bank’ To Pay Spiraling Legal Bills

by Anushka DesaiFebruary 18, 2024, 9:54 pmDaily Digest, News, News Feed >

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, the last remaining Republican presidential candidate running against former President Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, warned that Trump could use the Republican National Committee (RNC) as a “piggy bank” to pay for his mounting legal fees.

“My biggest issue is, I don’t want the RNC to become his legal defense fund,” she told CNN.

Haley’s comments came just hours after New York Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $355 million in fines for defrauding banks and insurance companies by overstating his net worth.

New York Attorney General Leticia James brought this case and alleged that Trump had falsified financial documents to obtain loans.

A few weeks before, a jury ordered Trump to pay advice columnist E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her after he had sexually abused her.

Haley expressed her concerns for the Republican party. If the RNC is focused on paying Trump’s legal expenses, then there will be less priority for funding House and Senate elections for the Republican party.

Haley declared that if Trump wins the nomination, the Republican Party “won’t win anything.”

She voiced her concern that Trump may use the Republican National Committee as his personal “piggy bank.”

“We’ve already seen him spend $50 million worth of campaign contributions towards his personal court cases,” she said.

The former South Carolina governor suggested that Trump is trying to gain control of the RNC for his own financial gain.

Recently, Trump endorsed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, for RNC co-chair and his campaign manager the director of operations of the RNC.

“He’s trying to control the RNC after the fact that he tried to get me out of the race so that he could be the presumptive nominee,” she said. “All of that is so that he has an arm to pay his legal fees.”