As Donald Trump and his campaign spend millions to try and win back the White House, some of his staunchest supporters are selling off property and pleading for money on the internet to defend themselves against charges that they broke the law to help him the last time he ran.
Republican Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still, charged in the sweeping racketeering and conspiracy case in Georgia, sold property to cover his legal expenses, according to two people who know him. Still sold a commercial warehouse he owned for $1.9 million in November, according to local property records. He has kept his seat in the legislature — and owns a pool construction business and an outdoor adventure company offering guided whitewater rafting trips on the side — but the costs of being a named co-conspirator alongside Trump are apparently adding up.
John Eastman, the former law professor who allegedly helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election results, said that he needed to raise $1 million by February to continue mounting his defense in Georgia — an effort he estimated would cost him as much as $3.5 million in total. Eastman is simultaneously a defendant in the Georgia racketeering case, an unindicted co-conspirator in one of the federal cases brought by special counsel Jack Smith, and the subject of an ethics complaint before the California state bar about his actions in 2020.