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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 $400,000 dollars as well.
Boy who knew that colluding with the Russians to undermine our democracy could end up being so damn expensive?
I think Jr was officially with the campaign, not that it justifies any of this bs.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of whom, what happened to jr, Ivanka and Jared? They all seem to have fallen off the Earth. interesting...
Delete@10:25 Bunkering Down into the Earth?
DeleteSad news. It will crash in.
Delete"“People have to be careful because at some point I fight back,” Trump told WMAL radio host Chris Plante. “You know, I’M being very nice. I’M being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty.”" <johnny mc$hame now warned to 'watch your back'.
ReplyDeleteAmerica 'will pay' for dRUMPf one way or another. Believe ~IT.
ReplyDeleteCNN:
ReplyDeleteTrump finally comments on soldier deaths in Niger; falsely knocks Obama over his responses to dead soldiers
By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer
Updated 4:06 AM EDT, Tue October 17, 2017
(CNN) Breaking his public silence about four American soldiers killed during an ambush in Niger, President Donald Trump said Monday he'd penned personal letters to their families and planned to phone them later this week.
He also claimed, without merit, that his predecessors hadn't written or called the families of slain American troops during their tenures, though the tradition of presidents reaching out after US servicemen are killed in action is long-established.
Trump said he'd written the letters over the weekend, and suggested they'd be mailed early this week. He was speaking 12 days after the ambush -- the deadliest combat incident since he took office....
He then claimed that other commanders in chief hadn't reached out to families of Americans killed in action, indicating he'd been told as much by the generals who serve in his administration.
"All I can do is ask my generals," Trump said.
* "ALL I CAN DO IS ASK MY GENERALS " (Has anybody ever heard of past presidents refer to generals as "MY GENERALS "?
• Hey Napoleon, the United States of America military is not your personal army!
• Plus this guy wants a 2 hour parade with tanks, missiles, jets, trucks, helicopters, soldiers and naval ships if they have wheels on them to march past him.)
• SCREW TRUMP
CNN Contd:
"Other presidents did not call, they would write letters, and some presidents didn't do anything."
"I like, when I can, the combination of a call and also a letter," he said.
Barack Obama, during his term in office, wrote letters and made calls to families of killed Americans, according to former administration officials. He also made frequent visits to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to spend time with wounded troops.
George W. Bush also wrote letters to families of troops killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which began during his tenure.
When pressed about his assertion, Trump backtracked slightly.
"I don't know if he did," he said of Obama. "I was told that he didn't often, and a lot of presidents don't. They write letters. I do, I do a combination of both."
Read more at
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/trump-niger-green-berets/index.html
Personally, I don't think "prompted by a reporter's question" counts as "finally broke his silence". It's more like "finally forced against his will to acknowledge."
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016#Campaign_finance
ReplyDeleteTotal campaign money spent as rep to FEC released September 2016:
Hillary Clinton: $639,635,565
Donald Trump: $302,488,918
You're talking a few million dollars in legal fees, not much by Washington standards... Team Hillary spent over $330,000,000 (330 million) more than the Trump campaign, more than double (after colluding with the DNC to insure her candidacy mind you), and still couldn't push the old horse across the finish line.
Now that is a waste of money. That money could have gone to a lot of good causes. Who knew a terrible candidate and DNC corruption could end up being so damn expensive?
Hillary won the votes of the people of the USA by 3 million more votes.
DeleteIf you think there is any better "cause" than keeping Drumph out of the White house, then you are a troll.
DeleteDoes that count all of Trump’s free media publicity, Sergei?
DeleteThere is no such thing as winning the votes of the people of the USA' 9:59. There is only the Electoral College, as it has always been.
DeleteTo be more accurate with your incorrect statement.. you could say she won the votes of the people of California by by 3 million more votes. But, California doesn't get to select Presidents all on it's own.
The 'majority' throughout America wanted Hillary Clinton as their POTUS. It's showing - on a minute-by-minute - display how she would have been so, so much better than the inept guy in the wh!
DeleteAmerica and Americans are the losers BIG TIME!
Trumps 'free media publicity' mlaiuppa? Keep hearing this false claim. The reality is....
Delete"Main article: Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential election, 2016.
Clinton was endorsed by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Daily News editorial boards. Trump, who has frequently criticized the mainstream media, was not endorsed by the vast majority of newspapers, with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Florida Times-Union, and the tabloid National Enquirer his highest profile supporters. Several papers which endorsed Clinton, such as the Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Columbus Dispatch and The Arizona Republic, endorsed their first Democratic candidate for many decades. USA Today, which had not endorsed any candidate since it was founded in 1982, broke tradition by giving an anti-endorsement against Trump, declaring him "unfit for the presidency". The Atlantic, which has been in circulation since 1857, gave Clinton its third-ever endorsement (after Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson).
Other traditionally Republican papers, including the New Hampshire Union Leader, which had endorsed the Republican nominee in every election for the last 100 years, The Detroit News, which had not endorsed a non-Republican in its 143 years, and the Chicago Tribune, endorsed Gary Johnson."
10:55
DeleteYou are full of shit.
How so 11:53, lol?
DeleteAre you saying that the Presidency is not determined by the Electoral College? As it always has been? Is that what you are saying?
Are you saying that California alone did not factor into Clinton's popular vote count? Because it did, she actually won California by over 4 million votes. So she won the California Electors... fair and square.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M
ReplyDeleteNovember 17, 1973
"2017: "I am not a crook"<RIGHT
They say politicians are like baby diapers. They need to be changed all the time because they are full of shit. I think diaper changing time in Washington, already?
ReplyDeleteThe vast majority of the political SHIT that goes on in Washington today didn't seriously start until the advent of professional politicians.
DeleteWe need term limits. Unfortunately, the people with the authority to write such a thing for the people to vote on - normally - are not going to write themselves out of a job!
Drugs, pharma, heck there are nothing but drug commercials on hd antenna tv.
ReplyDeleteRussian news, US will perish if China turns to European Union.
ReplyDeleteChina holds a lot of U.S. debt. (Thanks, Bush.)
DeleteAll they have to do is call in our loans. But they don’t want to do that because if they do, they’ll never get their money. Besides, owning U.S. debt gives them political leverage. They also don’t want to see the U.S. destroyed because the U.S. offers them a buffer zone between the world powers. A lot of their economy is based on exports to the U.S. If there is no more market, their economy suffers.
Just another example of don’t believe everything (or anything) you read on Russian News.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/17/trumps-epa-head-propaganda-video-job-taxpayers-dime.html
ReplyDelete"the Antideficiency Act, as well as other federal laws, in using taxpayer dollars for lobbying or propaganda purposes."
"“for the preparation, distribution or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, or film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress,”
"Pruitt follows the Trump cabinet model of scamming the taxpayers."
PBS had an execellent bio of Pruitt and how he got to the EPA. It wasn’t flattering to Pruitt or Trump.
DeleteJFC EVERY DAY it is something new. Every day he has to pick a fight or do or say some thing revolting.
ReplyDeleteAt our local grocery store there is a big table in the Deli where people congregate to socialize. I was sitting by the table and i was amazed at how many of the people were wishing him dead. I
Let it go you son of a bitch. What's your problem? Don't like successful African-Americans?
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his false claim that his predecessor didn't call the families of soldiers killed in action by alluding to former Gen. John Kelly's son, a Marine who died in Afghanistan.
"You could ask General Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?" Trump said in a radio interview with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kelly-tried-to-keep-his-sons-death-out-of-politics-trump-had-other-ideas/2017/10/17/4b173890-b35b-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.da669967c045
DeleteWhy do you even have to ask your generals if President Obama did or didn't?
ReplyDeleteWhat is your obsession with President Obama?
Trump's comments Tuesday come a day after he falsely claimed that President Barack Obama did not call the families of soldiers killed in action after being asked why he had not yet addressed the deaths of American troops killed in Niger earlier this month.
"President Obama, I think, probably did sometimes, and maybe sometimes he didn't. I don't know. That's what I was told. All I can do — all I can do is ask my generals,"
-Donald Trump