Is there a “line in the sand” President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters will not cross?
They don’t seem to care a foreign government–Russia, no less–interfered in our election.
Trump’s incessant pathological lies don’t seem to faze them.
They buy into the propaganda that any negative press is “fake.”
They think he’s doing “making American great again” despite no discernible legislative accomplishments with a Republican-majority Congress, packing his cabinet with billionaires of dubious experience, and supporting an agenda anathema to working-class promises he made on the campaign trail.
But how about paying for the Trump family’s legal fees?
Will they be okay with that?
If you know someone who donated to the Trump 2020 re-election campaign, chances are he or she is helping to pay for the first family’s legal defense.
Reuters reported Saturday on Federal Election Commission records that show the president’s re-election campaign paid $50,000 last month to the attorney representing Donald Trump Jr., almost two weeks before Trump Jr. admitted meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya to score damaging information on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Disclosed in the most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission, the June 27 payment was made to the Law Offices of Alan Futerfas for the expressed purpose of “legal consulting.”
Earlier last week, Futerfas was named Trump Jr.’s lawyer after The New York Times broke the story about the clandestine encounter between Trump Jr., former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and the Russian attorney.
FEC records also disclose Trump’s re-election campaign paid the law firm of Jones Day, which represented Trump’s 2016 campaign.
The FEC allows candidates and federal office holders to use campaign funds to pay legal fees connected to elections.
But look at what else he’s paying for.
Trump spent $6.3 million during the first three months of 2017. $500,000 of which went to hotels, golf clubs, and restaurants Trump’s businesses own. $274,013 went toward Trump Tower rent, $58,685 to lodging at Trump International Golf Course in Florida, and $13,828 for facility rental and catering at Trump International Hotel in Nevada.
The second quarter of 2017, Trump’s re-election campaign spent $4.4 million of $8 million raised, mostly on legal fees.
This begs the question: If the self-proclaimed, self-funded billionaire Trump is worth billions, why are his campaign funds being used to defend his son’s legal wranglings?
But maybe his supporters won’t care about that either.
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