Nikki Haley calls for RNC vote on resolution barring payment of Trump's legal fees
Nikki Haley called on RNC members to hold a vote on a draft resolution barring the party from paying candidates' legal fees, including Donald Trump's.
OREM, Utah — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday called on Republican National Committee members to hold an on-the-record vote on a draft resolution that would curb the national party’s ability to direct its funds toward legal fees, including former President Donald Trump's.
“All Americans, and Republicans especially, deserve a vote on the record on that resolution,” Haley said while campaigning here. “We deserve to know how the RNC is going to spend their money and if it’s going to go towards legal fees.”
Trump co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita — whom Trump plans to install at the RNC along with other loyalists, including his daughter-in-law, following the resignation of longtime chair Ronna McDaniel — previously told reporters that the RNC would not be paying for Trump's legal fees, but Haley campaign officials have not trusted the statement.
Haley went on to question if the RNC would end up shifting support from down-ballot Republicans to a “legal slush fund.”
“Are you going to ask the question about what happens with that resolution that says you can’t spend it on legal fees?” she asked reporters.
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