Opinion | This is where all of Trump's legal fees are going

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : But this case, which is predicted to last at least six weeks, will affect the timing of the other cases that await Trump.
44% : What's truly wild is that Blanche and Necheles aren't even the ones who've earned the most from Trump during these legal battles.
42% : Three separate appellate judges quickly shot down three eleventh-hour attempts from Trump to keep his trial from starting Monday.
39% : The longest is a 182-page document from Blanche to support the claim that Trump can't get a fair trial in Manhattan.
37% : All told, Trump has spent more than $100 million on lawyers and other legal costs since he left office in 2021, according to a tally from The New York Times.
36% : And, again, these numbers don't include the money Trump has been burning through over the last two months, when the frequency of filings shot up.
35% : The absurdly high amount Trump has been spending on legal fees really begins to make sense when you consider just how many hours are going into preparing this mountain of pretrial filings.
35% : Despite the money Trump has spent, it is all but inevitable at this point that the first ever criminal trial against a former president will begin on Monday.
33% : The flurry of paperwork that's been filed in the past few weeks helps illuminate how Trump is managing to burn through a mountain of cash.
32% : Trump has two main lawyers on this case: Todd Blanche, who is working with the two other members of his firm, and Susan Necheles, who was once a defense attorney for a mafia underboss.
31% : There's no one public source tracking all the various delay tactics that Trump has employed to forestall standing trial.
30% : Lawyering is expensive work, and the phalanx of attorneys Trump has drafting briefs and arguing before the bench doesn't come cheap.
23% : Blanche launched his firm soon after taking on Trump as a client, and it's been among the biggest beneficiaries of this largesse, as Blanche is also defending Trump in the federal criminal cases against him in Washington and Florida.
22% : And those are just the motions they've made in one of the four criminal cases Trump is facing.
20% : Thankfully, the team at Lawfare, a project from the Brookings Institution, has been compiling the documents in the New York case, where Trump stands accused of falsifying records to cover up hush money payments before and after the 2016 election.

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