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Trump supporters were encouraged to sign up for recurring donations to "protect the results and keep fighting even after Election Day."

Trump's leadership PAC received 60 percent of each donation, while the RNC took the other 40 percent. Until Trump’s PAC share reached the legal contribution limit of $5,000, nothing would go to Trump’s official ‘recount’ fund, according to a Reuters review of the legal language in the solicitations. [...]

"In the weeks following the November 3 election, President Trump asked donors to give to his ‘election defense fund,’ but in reality, the money raised flowed to Trump’s leadership PAC, which never paid for any post-election litigation and legally could not even do so," Fischer told American Greatness.

"One of the only restrictions on Trump’s leadership PAC is that it cannot be used to support Trump’s own campaign, including the costs of litigation arising out of his campaign," he added. "In short, Trump raised tens of millions of dollars on a claim that his PAC would do something that it was legally prohibited from doing all along."