A RNC committee member who brought the resolution said there will be ‘no vote.’
The Republican National Committee (RNC) didn’t get enough votes to submit a resolution to bar the organization from paying former President Donald Trump’s legal bills amid multiple criminal cases.
Henry Barbour, Mississippi’s national committeeman, told multiple outlets this week that a resolution that he drafted for the RNC that would have blocked it from covering President Trump’s many legal fees won’t be passed.
“It’s dead,” Mr. Barbour told Politico and Reuters about the resolution. “We ended up with 8 of the (10) necessary states, so no vote on Friday on the legal bill resolution,” he added.
Another committee member, Solomon Yue, from Oregon, told CNBC that “more than a majority” of RNC members are in favor of helping President Trump deal with his legal bills for four criminal cases and multiple civil cases. “I support the RNC paying President Trump’s legal bills,” he added.
He told the outlet that paying off the bills is part of the former president’s reelection campaign to oust President Joe Biden, describing the criminal cases as “lawfare.”
“Winning this lawfare is to defeat Biden’s reelection in November,” Mr. Yue said, adding, “The only mission of the Republican National Committee is to elect our presumptive nominee Trump as the 47th President.”