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{{Infobox organization
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| type = PAC – Qualified<ref name="auto10">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00762591/|title=Save America – committee overview|website=Federal Election Commission|date=January 2023 |access-date=2023-06-30|archive-date=2023-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630063951/https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00762591/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| affiliations = [[MAGA Inc.|Make America Great Again Super PAC]]<ref name="auto10"/>
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'''Save America''' (founded on November 9, 2020) is a [[Leadership PAC|leadership political action committee]] founded and controlled by
==History==
Former US President [[Donald Trump]] founded and controls the Save America [[Leadership PAC|leadership political action committee]] (leadership PAC).<ref name="auto4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/08/trump-save-america-pac-eyed-by-federal-grand-jury.html|title=Trump Save America PAC formation and spending eyed by federal grand jury, reports say|first=Dan|last=Mangan|date=September 8, 2022|website=[[CNBC]]|access-date=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629222700/https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/08/trump-save-america-pac-eyed-by-federal-grand-jury.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Save America has been Trump's primary fundraising and political spending arm since he left office.<ref name="auto6"/><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-russia-ukraine-donald-trump-presidential-campaigns-4ce3a13c3fe27255210adc0c83a80da1|title=Trump's PAC faces scrutiny amid intensifying legal probes|date=September 13, 2022|
[[File:Donald, Melania Trump dancing at Liberty Ball 01-20-17.jpg|thumb|180px|Donald Trump dancing with then-First Lady [[Melania Trump]]
Trump has used the PAC to pay for his post-presidential rallies, travel, staff expenses, $21.6 million in legal bills (including those of Trump confidants and aides called to testify before the [[United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack|January 6 attack US House committee]]), and portraits of himself and the former first lady that will one day hang in the [[Smithsonian]]'s [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] ($650,000).<ref name="auto11"/><ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto9">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/politics/trump-donations-legal-fees.html|title=As Legal Fees Mount, Trump Steers Donations Into PAC That Has Covered Them|first1=Shane|last1=Goldmacher|first2=Maggie|last2=Haberman|authorlink2=Maggie Haberman|date=June 25, 2023|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 30, 2023|archive-date=June 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630063403/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/politics/trump-donations-legal-fees.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-save-america-leadership-pac-federal-grand-jury/|title=Federal grand jury probing Trump's Save America leadership PAC, reports say|date=September 9, 2022|website=[[CBS News]]|access-date=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629222701/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-save-america-leadership-pac-federal-grand-jury/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pro-trump-group-powers-surge-early-us-super-pac-spending-2023-05-04/|title=Pro-Trump group powers surge in early US super PAC spending|first1=Jason|last1=Lange|first2=Nathan|last2=Layne|date=May 4, 2023|
===2022===
In February 2022, Save America paid the legal fees charged by [[Stefan Passantino]], a former Trump deputy White House counsel, to represent unemployed former White House aide [[Cassidy Hutchinson]], who had been served with a subpoena by the January 6 attack US House Committee.<ref name="auto13">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/magazine/jan-6-committee.html|title=Inside the Jan. 6 Committee|first1=Robert|last1=Draper|first2=Luke|last2=Broadwater|first3=Philip|last3=Montgomery|date=December 23, 2022|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 30, 2023|archive-date=June 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630204842/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/magazine/jan-6-committee.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After she was deposed, Hutchinson received a call from a top aide to Mark Meadows saying: "Mark wants me to let you know that he knows you’re loyal, and he knows you’ll do the right thing tomorrow and that you’re going to protect him and the boss."<ref name="auto13"/> Concerned that her testimony was being conveyed to Trump, and suspecting Passantino's legal team of leaking it to him, she terminated Passantino's representation of her.<ref name="auto13"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/us/politics/trump-campaign-spending-pac-lawyer-bills.html|title=Trump Spent $10 Million From His PAC on His Legal Bills Last Year; Now that the former president is a declared candidate again, there are questions about whether he can continue using donor funds to pay his lawyers.|first=Maggie|last=Haberman|authorlink=Maggie Haberman|date=February 21, 2023|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 30, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629211235/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/us/politics/trump-campaign-spending-pac-lawyer-bills.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Hutchinson then hired attorney [[Jody Hunt]], who agreed to represent her on a ''[[pro bono]]'' basis.<ref name="auto13"/>
As of June 2022, over 60% of contributions to Save America were from retirees.<ref name="auto11"/>
Spending by Save America increased in August 2022 to over $6.3 million, its highest monthly total of the year to that point in time.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/trump-save-america-pac-legal-payments-surge/index.html|title=Spending by Trump's Save America PAC surges amid legal battles over Mar-a-Lago search|first=Fredreka|last=Schouten|date=September 21, 2022|website=[[CNN]]|access-date=June 29, 2023|archive-date=June 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629222700/https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/trump-save-america-pac-legal-payments-surge/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> That month Save America made a contribution of $150,000 to Wyoming Values, a [[Political action committee#Super PACs|super PAC]] working to defeat Republican US Representative [[Liz Cheney]].<ref name="auto3"/> The PAC began September 2022 with over $92 million in cash.<ref name="auto3"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-allies-create-a-new-super-pac-called-maga-inc|title=Donald Trump allies create a new super PAC called MAGA Inc.|date=September 23, 2022|website=[[PBS NewsHour]]|
In October 2022 the PAC transferred $20 million to
In November 2022, when Trump began his 2024 campaign for president, 99 cents out of every dollar that he raised online went to his campaign.<ref name="auto9"/> One penny went to Save America.<ref name="auto9"/> However, in February or March 2023 he adjusted that split, so that 90 cents of every dollar donated to him goes to his campaign, and 10% of donations go to Save America.<ref name="auto9"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-quietly-changes-political-fundraising-185004577.html|title=Trump is funneling 10% of 2024 campaign donations to cover his legal bills|date=June 26, 2023|website=[[Yahoo!]]|
===2023===
In January 2023, Save America had $18 million of cash on hand.<ref name="auto9"/> Through that date, the states from which it had raised the most money from residents were Virginia ($12 million), California ($8 million), and Texas ($7 million).<ref name="auto10"/>
In June 2023, Trump's valet [[Walt Nauta]] was [[Federal prosecution of Donald Trump (government documents case)|indicted by a federal grand jury]]; Save America is paying Nauta's legal bills.<ref name="NBCProfile">{{cite news |last1=Ainsley |first1=Julia |last2=Haake |first2=Garrett |last3=Edelman |first3=Adam |last4=O'Donnell |first4=Kelly |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/latest-news-trump-indictment-florida-classified-documents-rcna88546 |title=Trump aide Walt Nauta also indicted in classified documents case |work=NBC News |date=June 9, 2023 |language=en |access-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-date=June 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610032859/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/latest-news-trump-indictment-florida-classified-documents-rcna88546 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="auto14">{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/walt-nauta-trump-indicted-documents-b2356911.html|title=Who is Walt Nauta? Donald Trump's 'body man' charged over classified documents?; Guam-born valet finds himself thrust into the centre of the most high profile criminal investigation in the country|date=June 14, 2023|website=[[The Independent]]|
As of July 1, 2023, Save America had less than $4 million.<ref name="auto15">{{Cite web|first1=Fin|last1=Gómez|first2=Kathryn|last2=Watson|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-pac-pays-his-legal-bills-save-america/|title=Here's what Trump PAC Save America has spent on Trump's legal bills this year
==Investigation of PAC==
It was reported in September 2022 that a Washington, D.C., [[federal grand jury]] had issued [[subpoena]]s to several witnesses seeking information related to the formation, fundraising activities, and receipts of monies and expenditures of Save America.<ref name="
==See also==
*[[Great America PAC]], a super PAC that supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election
*[[America PAC]], a super PAC that supported Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election
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