OAN’s Brooke Mallory
11:52 AM – Friday, April 12, 2023
Federal Election Commission records obtained by the New York Post reveal that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) attacked Donald Trump for using the same process to pay his legal fees in regards to using campaign funds to pay for President Biden’s more than $1.5 million in legal expenses during the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents.
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The money was utilized to cover the president’s legal fees and firms during the 13-month special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation, which came to an end in February. Axios was the first to report on the payments.
Hur explained his decision to drop charges against the president in a 388-page report that was made public on February 8th. He stated that Biden would probably present himself as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” at trial, making a conviction improbable.
Bob Bauer PLLC is the professional limited liability business owned by top Biden attorney Bob Bauer, who is married to senior White House communications adviser Anita Dunn. The DNC paid Bob Bauer PLLC $1.05 million.
David Laufman, a notable attorney and former Justice Department employee who worked on the investigations into Russian election interference in 2016 and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, was hired in part with the help of that funding.
The DNC also sent the Boston legal firm Hemenway & Barnes LLP, where Jennifer Miller, a lawyer for Biden, practices, upwards of $100,000. How much of that money was associated with Miller’s work on the Biden documents case is unknown.
Ironically, Trump has come under fire from the Democratic National Committee and the Biden 2024 campaign for allegedly using campaign cash to pay his escalating legal bills.
“There is no comparison—the DNC does not spend a single penny of grassroots donors’ money on legal bills, unlike Donald Trump, who actively solicits legal fees from his supporters and has drawn down every bank account he can get his hands on like a personal piggy bank,” DNC spokesperson Alex Floyd claimed in a statement.
The Biden campaign has accused Trump of utilizing a massive event that took place in Palm Beach on April 6th to pay for his legal expenditures. The campaign claims that the former president is using “billionaire-reliant funds it has to pay off his various legal fees.”
“We are not spending money on legal bills. We are not hawking gold sneakers or any of that stuff. The money that we are raising, we are going straight to talking to voters,” said Rufus Gifford, the Biden campaign’s finance chair.
Meanwhile, Trump’s team retaliated against the “hypocrisy” of the Biden campaign.
“Joe Biden and the Democrats’ entire campaign against President Trump is based upon lies and hypocrisy—they have repeatedly stated they don’t spend money on Biden’s legal bills while they attack President Trump for having to defend himself from Biden’s witch hunts,” said Trump 2024 national spokesperson Karoline Leavitt.
“Come to find out, the DNC paid millions to cover Biden’s legal bills to a law firm run by the husband of top White House staffer Anita Dunn. Apparently, ‘10% for the big guy’ from Hunter wasn’t enough for Crooked Joe to foot his own bill.”
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