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| Have you seen these legal bills? |
President Donald Trump’s campaign paid more than $1 million in legal bills in the last three months as investigations continue into Russia’s role in the 2016 election, new disclosures made public on Sunday show.
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have now disclosed a total of more than $2 million this year in payments to law firms and to lawyers with a company owned by the president's family.
The campaign reported spending almost twice as much on legal bills over the last three months as it did during the second quarter of this year.The campaign and the RNC have acknowledged that they are helping to pay legal bills for Trump family members who are facing scrutiny as part of investigations by congressional committees and special counsel Robert Mueller into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. It’s legal for the president to spend the funds on legal bills so long as the expenses incurred are from aspects of the investigation related to the Trump campaign.
Yes apparently a good chunk of this money was spent to defend Junior.
Courtesy of Bloomberg:
President Donald Trump’s re-election committee paid almost $238,000 in the third quarter to the law firm representing Donald Trump Jr. in connection with ongoing investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to campaign finance disclosures.
Trump’s campaign made two payments -- one in mid July, the other in early August -- to the law firm of Alan S. Futerfas, a lawyer for the president’s son, who is facing scrutiny over a 2016 meeting he had with a Russian lawyer while seeking damaging information about Democrat Hillary Clinton. The third-quarter disclosures with the Federal Election Commission didn’t specify what the legal expenses were for.
Yeah but we know what they were for.
And that could be problematic since Junior was not officially with the campaign I think it is somewhat illegal for the campaign to pay his legal bills.
And let's not forget that the RNC has also chipped in at leat $400,000 dollars as well.
Boy who knew that colluding with the Russians to undermine our democracy could end up being so damn expensive?
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