The promise by Chis LaCivita, who Trump wants appointed to be the COO of the RNC, that the organization won’t be paying Trump’s legal bills might be in jeopardy.

CNBC is reporting that a growing number of RNC members, perhaps even a majority, do indeed want to use RNC funds to pay Trump’s enormous legal bills while trying to win the election.

In fact a resolution to prevent the RNC from paying Trump’s legal bills failed yesterday.

Here’s more on this from Brian Schwartz:

A growing number of Republican National Committee members believe its campaign arm should help pay mounting legal bills for former President Donald Trump, a move that could strain the party’s ability to financially support other candidates in the 2024 election.

RNC Committeeman Solomon Yue, who is from Oregon, told CNBC he believes “more than a majority” of members are in favor of helping offset the bills from Trump’s lawyers in four pending criminal cases, and at least three other civil cases.

“I support the RNC paying President Trump’s legal bills,” Yue said.

That support by Yue and others led to the defeat Tuesday of a proposed resolution by RNC committee member Henry Barbour that would have barred the group from paying those bills once Trump becomes the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, who is a billionaire.

“The resolution is dead,” Barbour told Reuters.

He did not return CNBC’s request for comment.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential nomination contest Wednesday, making it all but certain that Trump soon will collect the minimum 1,215 delegates he needs to become the party’s presumptive nominee.

When Barbour first proposed his resolution in February, Trump’s senior campaign advisor Chris LaCivita — who Trump has endorsed to become the next RNC chief operating officer — told reporters the committee would not be used to pay Trump’s legal bills.

And the RNC historically has raised money to support candidates up and down the ballot, not to pay for a candidate’s legal bills.

But that history and LaCivita’s promise might not matter given the level of support for the idea by a growing group of the RNC’s voting members.

Ronna McDaniel, who has led the RNC since 2017, plans to step down at its spring meeting in Houston on Friday.

There also might be a decision made at that meeting on whether the RNC will pay for Trump’s legal bills.

It’s one thing if people want to contribute directly to help Trump pay his legal bills and I applaud that. But to use fundraising money meant to try and win back the House, the Senate and the presidency for Trump’s legal bills is wholly another. Not only would it be inappropriate, but it would likely hurt our chances to swing the Senate back to Republican control and get more Republicans in the House to turn our narrow majority into a much stronger majority.