Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said if Republicans nominate Donald Trump for president again, he will pay his many legal bills using bales of donor money given to the Republican National Committee.
On Friday, a judge in Manhattan ordered the former president to pay $354 million for defrauding banks and insurance companies. The judge also ruled that Trump may not run a business or serve as an executive of a company in New York state for three years. Trump railed against the ruling online and in person. He has said he will appeal.
Haley, the former South Carolina governor who also served as U.N. ambassador under Trump, joined Friday’s edition of The Source on CNN, where she expressed concern that the ex-president will use the Republican National Committee as his legal “piggybank.”
“How damning do you believe this ruling is?” host Kaitlan Collins asked.
Haley responded by citing a report showing that Trump spentmore than $50 million …