A ton of the money that Trump is raising for his reelection bid is going to legal fees.

I'm like a reverse Robin Hood. I take from the stupid and give to me.

Courtesy of CNN: 

More than one-fifth of the $3.9 million that President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign has spent this year has gone to legal fees, the campaign's latest quarterly Federal Election Commission filing shows. 

About $835,000 in payments for "legal consulting" were made to eight firms and the Trump Corporation, with the most -- $347,000 -- going to Jones Day. Another $185,000 went to the firm Larocca Hornik Rosen Greenberg & Blaha. About $24,000 went to the Trump Corporation. 

The steep legal bills come amid a probe into whether the Trump campaign was involved in Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election as well as a legal battle with adult film star Stormy Daniels. 

In the first two months of 2018, the campaign paid $93,181.25 to the firm of Charles Harder, the attorney representing Trump in the Stormy Daniels case.

Well to be honest, this is probably a good idea since it is really hard to run for office while sitting in a federal prison. 

But don't worry deplorables, Trump isn't just wasting your hard earned money on lawyer's fees, he is also using it to support his various businesses.

Trump's campaign has also spent about $150,000 at Trump businesses, including the legal fees, per the FEC report. That includes about $68,000 at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, to cover costs including event rental space, hotel stays and parking. 

The campaign spent another $58,000 on costs listed as "rent" divided between three recipients: Trump Plaza, Trump Restaurants and Trump Tower.

I am not certain that it is true, but I heard that if you look up the word "suckers" in the dictionary that this is the photo that you see. 

That may not be factually correct, but I BELIEVE it to be true.

Former Alabama Senate candidate, and accused pedophile, Roy Moore needs your money.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Embattled former Senate candidate Roy Moore is making a public plea for help to pay the legal fees he faces defending himself from a lawsuit brought by an Alabama woman who says he touched her sexually when she was 14 years old. 

In a statement posted on his Senate campaign’s Facebook page, the Republican former judge made the ask in a grievance-filled note, saying that he faced a “vicious attack from lawyers in Washington D.C. and San Francisco who have hired one of the biggest firms in Birmingham Alabama to bring another legal action against me.” 

“My resources have been depleted and I have struggled to make ends meet,” Moore wrote, saying that his legal fees could exceed $100,000. “I have had to establish a legal defense fund, anything you give will be appreciated.” 

Leigh Corfman filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore in January, part of an emerging legal strategy of litigating sexual misconduct claims through civil lawsuits when the statute of limitations has expired for criminal charges. 

In November, Corfman told The Washington Post that Moore took her to his house, undressed her and touched her sexually when he was a 32-year-old district attorney in 1979, and she was 14. The accusations shook up the Senate race in the deep-red state, and helped catapult it to wide national attention. Moore denied the accusations, maintaining that he was the victim of a conspiracy by liberal groups, mainstream media organizations and others. Corfman claims some of the statements he made defamed her.

Man I am trying very hard to come up with even an ounce of sympathy for this POS.

Nope, I got nothing.

But wait, maybe this will help.

Here's my check #RoyMoore #RoyMooreChildMolester pic.twitter.com/HwtP1UNFY8

— Agent 99 (@agent_orangutan) March 3, 2018

There you go, that, along with God's grace, should be all a religious man like Roy Moore needs to see him through these challenging times.

Right after the RNC came under pressure for paying Trump's legal fees, they suddenly decided to pay an exorbitant amount of rent to Trump properties.

Hey, they stopped paying my legal fees. What more do you want?

Courtesy of CNBC: 

Soon after the Republican National Committee came under pressure for paying legal bills for President Donald Trump and his eldest son in the special counsel's Russia probe, it started covering expenses for the president's re-election campaign. 

The RNC is using campaign funds to pay Trump's company more than $37,000 a month in rent, and to pay thousands of dollars in monthly salary to Vice President Mike Pence's nephew, John Pence, party officials confirmed this week. The rent pays for office space in the Trump Tower in New York for the staff of Trump's re-election campaign. John Pence is the Trump campaign's deputy executive director. 

Campaign finance experts who spoke to CNBC said this type of spending by a party committee on behalf of a campaign is highly unusual but legal, and it appears the RNC disclosed it correctly.

"This is permissible and it's being reported properly, but why they are doing it is a mystery," said Brendan Fischer, senior counsel for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. "One would think the RNC could be spending their money more effectively right now on the 2018 campaign, rather than spending it to pay Trump's rent." 

So far, the party has spent more than $290,000 to cover the Trump campaign's expenses since September, the first month it paid the Trump Tower rent or Pence's salary. Before then, both expenses had been paid directly by the Trump campaign.

So the RNC stopped paying Trump's legal fees, and then just suddenly started paying the Trump campaign's rent at a Trump property?

Wow! What a coinky dink!

My favorite part of all this is that in Trump world this seems to be considered super sneaky and virtually undetectable. 

I suddenly have the feeling that Robert Mueller is having very little difficulty building a money laundering case against Donald Trump and his minions.

Guess what? Your tax dollars are being used to protect Donald Trump's private businesses from lawsuits.

Courtesy of USA Today: 

Taxpayers are footing the legal bill for at least 10 Justice Department lawyers and paralegals to work on lawsuits related to President Trump's private businesses. 

Neither the White House nor the Justice Department will say how much it is costing taxpayers, but federal payroll records show the salaries of the government lawyers assigned to the cases range from about $133,000 to $185,000. 

The government legal team is defending President Trump in four lawsuits stemming from his unusual decision not to divest himself from hundreds of his companies that are entangled with customers that include foreign governments and officials. 

In the cases, Justice Department attorneys are not defending policy actions Trump took as president. Instead, the taxpayer-funded lawyers are making the case that it is not unconstitutional for the president's private companies to earn profits from foreign governments and officials while he's in office. 

The government lawyers and Trump's private attorneys are making the same arguments — that the Constitution's ban on a president taking gifts from foreign interests in exchange for official actions does not apply to foreign government customers buying things from Trump's companies. The plaintiffs, including ethics groups and competing businesses, argue the payments pose an unconstitutional conflict of interest.

Hey, remember when the Founding Fathers laid out all of those rules to protect this country from becoming an oligarchy or from being taken over by a dictator?

Boy those were the good old days, weren't they? 

Donald Trump promises to pay $430,000 for legal costs incurred by White House staff and campaign associates due to Russia probe.

Courtesy of Axios:

President Trump has promised to spend at least $430,000 of his own money to defray legal costs incurred by campaign associates and White House staff due to the Russia investigations, a White House official tells Axios. 

What we know: The Republican National Committee has paid roughly $430,000 to lawyers representing the president and his eldest son, Don Jr. A White House official told me Trump will not be reimbursing the RNC for these costs. However, the White House official says he has pledged to spend the same amount, from his personal finances, "to defray the costs of legal fees for his associates, including former and current White House aides."

According to the article this $430,000 will only pay a fraction of the legal bills, though Trump has hinted he might pay more in the future. 

It also states that Trump will NOT be paying Michael Flynn's legal bills, and Flynn would not accept it if he offered, however there is no real indication whose bills Trump will pay and when he will pay them.

It should be noted that this is how mob bosses control their people. By offering to pay their legal fees if picked up by the cops so long as they keep their mouths shut.

Trump campaign has paid over one million dollars in legal fees in response to Russia investigations.

Have you seen these legal bills?

Courtesy of Politico:  

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?

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn starts defense fund to pay Russia probe legal bills.

Courtesy of Bloomberg: 

Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn plans to set up a fund to raise money to pay his legal bills stemming from multiple investigations into possible Trump campaign ties to Russia, according to a person close to Flynn. 

Flynn may become the first associate of President Donald Trump to begin raising money for legal costs associated with the Russia investigation, though others also are weighing how to finance their legal defenses. So far, Trump’s campaign organization has only footed legal bills related to the investigation for the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., according to records of expenses through the end of June. 

Even if Flynn is never charged with a crime, his legal costs could reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, said William Jeffress, a lawyer with Baker Botts. The tab could easily climb to $1 million for a criminal defense, Jeffress added. 

Legal preparations to establish Flynn’s defense fund are already underway, said the person close to Flynn.

I wonder how many Russian checks he will receive?

So now I have to wonder if those hints that Flynn is working with the FBI are in fact true, since one might think that cooperating would greatly reduce his legal expenditures.

I do think however that Flynn is only the first who will be seeking this kind of monetary support.

I have heard that there are many in the White House, even everyday staff, who are also being forced to lawyer up as the FBI and Robert Mueller probe deeper and deeper.

And that would include former Trump campaign communications adviser Michael Caputo who is now raiding his children's college funds in order to pay his attorney fees due to these investigations. 

A message from Sunny Johnston.

This was sent to me this morning to share with all of you.

We feel so grateful for you all right now! 

This will help us so much. Thank you for taking the time to see what we were up against and how over 7 years this was so draining, financially and emotionally to both of us. We appreciate each and every one of you. 

If you look on court view we are scheduled to be back in court , but this has nothing to do with the custody situation or child support. 

I'm going to raise the goal because of what these future costs might be, which as of right now we simply cannot predict.

We have always felt so alone in this. But now thanks to you all we feel less overwhelmed. 

And that is the greatest feeling. 

Thank you so much from the bottom of mine and Levi's heart.

As alluded to above Sunny just raised the limit to $10,000 which is the amount I wanted her to post in the first place.

However she really did not believe that people would help so she chose a smaller number so she would not be disappointed.

I guess she just failed to realize how awesome all of you are, didn't she?

It is important to once again note that in Sunny's message she points out that going back to court has NOTHING to do with custody or child support. That is important because what it signifies is that this is simply an ongoing attempt to bankrupt them and force them into compliance with the Palin's demands.

Somehow I have the feeling that after what they witnessed last night they are rethinking that strategy.

Once again here is the link to the Johnston's Go Fund Me page.

George Zimmerman wants Florida to pay his legal fees.

Courtesy of Time:  

George Zimmerman wants the state of Florida to pick up the tab for his legal defense, just weeks after he was acquitted in the high-profile trial of Trayvon Martin’s death. 

Zimmerman, who was found not guilty of murder last month in a case that riveted the nation and sparked pitched conversations about race, will ask that Florida foots a legal bill of up to $300,000, his lawyer told the Orlando Sentinel. 

State law requires that Florida cover all legal expenses — except lawyer’s fees — for an acquitted defendant, from expert witnesses to the 3D videos shown to jurors. Zimmerman is still preparing a motion that will ask for between $200,000 and $300,000, according to his lawyer. 

Taxpayers have already shelled out an estimated $902,000 on the second-degree murder trial that ended July 13, the newspaper reports. 

Well he DID win, so I guess this is his right. 

Of course if the prosecutors had done their jobs more effectively they could have saved their state a hell of a lot of money.

Arrogant POS!