Donald Trump’s Save America political action committee — which raised $250 million on the promise that it would fight voter fraud following the 2020 election — isn’t just spending its funds to pay the legal bills for Jan. 6 witnesses. The PAC also gave $60,000 to a fashion designer associated with former First Lady Melania Trump.<\/p>\n
USA Today<\/em> reported that according to the Federal Elections Commission, from April 7 to June 24 of this year the Save America PAC made six payments totaling $60,000 to Hervé Pierre Braillard, the French designer who styled Melania during the Trump presidency. Braillard — who also designed for previous first ladies like Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama — was given the payments for what the PAC called “strategy consulting.”<\/p>\n However, Save America’s payouts to Braillard, while deceitful, were not technically illegal: While political candidates are not allowed to use PAC money to buy personal items, Trump was not running for any office at the time Save America, a “leadership PAC,” was formed. Thus, there are fewer restrictions on how Save America could spend the money it raised.<\/p>\n Last month, it was revealed that Trump’s organization and his allies were promising to use the Save America PAC to foot the legal bills of more than a dozen witnesses called to testify before the Jan. 6 committee, including $75,000 to pro-Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell, and $50,000 Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n