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Brett Kappel was quoted in a recent New York Times article, titled “New ‘RBG PAC’ Spending $19 Million From Secret Donors to Aid Trump on Abortion”, published by Shane Goldmacher, Theodore Schleifer, and Maggie Haberman on October 25, 2024. A new Super PAC supporting the Trump campaign has emerged that misappropriates the name of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. By using the name ‘RBG PAC’, the group is attempting to align Trump with the stance that he opposes a national abortion ban, even though he is responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade.

By submitting their initial filings on October 16, 2024, the Super PAC just avoids the last FEC financial disclosure deadline before the election. This allows the group to avoid revealing their donors and vendors working with the Super PAC. Kappel states that “While its permissible to game the system in this way under the FEC reporting rules that were written in the 1970s, in my experience only a campaign that believes that it is losing resorts to this tactic.” In its short existence, the group has already spent nearly $20 million on digital media spending, text measures, and printing and postage. Due to the timing of their filing, the sources of these funds will not be made public until the Super PAC files its Post-General Report on December 5, 2024, one month after the general election.