Donald Trump Jr. paid attorney with funds from his fathers re-election campaign: report

[applegrove]

by Taylor Link at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2017/07/15/donald-trump-jr-paid-attorney-with-funds-from-his-fathers-re-election-campaign-report/

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If you’ve donated to President Donald Trump’s campaign to re-elect, there’s a chance those funds have been used to pay for the first family’s legal defense team. Federal Election Commission records show that the president’s re-election campaign made a $50,000 payment last month to the attorney representing Donald Trump Jr., Reuters reported Saturday.

The payment came almost two weeks before Trump Jr. revealed that he met with a Russian lawyer in order to discuss damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

The payment, dated June 27, was made to the Law Offices of Alan Futerfas, according to Reuters, and was disclosed in the most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission. “Legal consulting” was the purported reasoning for the payment.

Futerfas was announced as Trump Jr.’s lawyer earlier this week after The New York Times first reported the shady encounter between Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Four other individuals reportedly attended the meeting.

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[dchill]

1. Just like any Rich Republican...

Any money that they can put their hands on is legally theirs.

[Tanuki]

2. The revelation that the recent press release (stating that Idiot Jr.'s meeting

was about "adoption&quot was written by White House aides raised its own set of questions. Why were government employees spending their time (on the taxpayer's dime) coming up with an alibi for a private citizen?

[rainbow4321]

3. And NO lawyer was on the plane..so there is no lawyer/client privileges

One report said there was no lawyer around.

Unless they claim his lawyer was on speaker phone as they scribbled it all down.

[malaise]

4. Months Ago Rachel told us to carefully watch what was done with all that extra money

raised for the inauguration that flopped.

[Lucinda]

5. +1

[dawnie51]

6. Explains the rallies and campaign crap.....

they're raising legal fees off the rubes.

[WhiteTara]

7. So they are admitting this a campaign issue

and that these people weren't acting as individuals after all.

[rainbow4321]

8. And trying to get the RNC to pay legal fees

Which is probably drumf's way of saying to the RNC "you played a part in the treason so you have to help pay for us getting caught"

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/kfile-rnc-chair-trump-legal-fees/index.html

Romney McDaniel was asked on Washington radio station WMAL's "Mornings on the Mall" about a Washington Post report that said "some in Trump's orbit are pushing the Republican National Committee to bear the costs" for legal fees Trump and other officials amass in retaining attorneys amid the inquiries into whether the campaign colluded with the Russian government during last year's election.