They got him far. But eventually he flew too close to the sun.

Didn't he already have some very prominent 1st amendment lawyer writing legal briefs about how not letting him intimidate witnesses was a big 1st amendment issue?

Sure, his money spends, maybe the guy would have done it for anyone who paid enough, but I suspect all these prior donations helped grease the wheel for that kind of thing, a lot.

> and it looks like those donations will get him nowhere.

...because there are not any more coming.

We don't know that yet...

you are an unreasonable optimist.