Thread by @svdate

NEW -- Trump has been sending his millions of small-dollar donors dozens of texts and emails talking up the Georgia Senate runoffs.

So how much has Trump's "Save America" PAC reported spending on those races?

That would zero. Nothing. Nada.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-ge…

A HuffPost analysis of all “independent expenditures” reported to the Federal Election Commission through Thursday for the Jan. 5 election found that 114 different groups have spent $172.6 million in the two races that will determine control of the Senate for the next two years.

They range from the Senate Leadership Fund, the superPAC run by allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that spent $31.3 million, to the tiny Ohio-based Heroes PAC, which spent $7,600 for digital ads on behalf of incumbent Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler

That figure, though, is still $7,600 more than has been reported spent by Trump and his Save America committee, which he created six days after his Nov. 3 reelection loss.

At some point, how is this not just straight up fraud?

Here are texts sent by the Trump campaign on Saturday:

Click, and it takes you to a website, advertising a "GEORGIA ELECTION FUND!"

But if you scroll down, here's the fine print:

In other words, there IS no "GEORGIA ELECTION FUND."

There is mainly Trump's "Save America" pac.

It COULD spend a limitless amount on those Georgia races, if it wanted to. But Trump has not reported spending a single nickel.

Here's CREW's Robert Maguire:

“It would suggest that the PAC is blatantly lying to its supporters to raise money that President Trump could use for his own personal benefit. We’ve seen lots of scam PACs over the years, but never one tied so closely to a president.”

Trump's old lawyer, Michael Cohen, tells HuffPost he's not surprised.

"Just another example of our grifter-in-chief playing his supporters for fools as his milks them of their money....
He considers that account to be his slush fund. That’s his money.”