Former Trump aide liquidated childrens college fund to pay for Russia defense: report

[turbinetree]

Source: The Hill

A former campaign adviser to President Trump said the ongoing federal probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia has taken such a financial toll on him that he's had to liquidate his children's college fund to pay for legal counsel.

"It's very expensive and nobody's called me and offered to help," Michael Caputo, who worked in the Trump campaign’s communications department, told The Washington Examiner.

"The problem is, it's very specialized representation, so it takes a certain type of attorney, and they're quite competent. And you'll pay for competency," he continued. Caputo said he has hired a New York-based attorney.

The former campaign adviser said the probe was politically motivated, and aimed at "destroying" the president's allies.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/350994-former-trump-aide-liquidated-childrens-college-fund-to-pay-for

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No asshole its about TRAITORS and this is not politically motivated in your wet dream, this is about TREASON

Maybe you have to sell your house, car, live on the street, you know the old saying asshole-------------play around lay around

Boo fucking Hoo, cry me a f*cking river

[FarPoint]

1. Good...

I believe this is a karma lesson.

Then again, if there is nothing to hide or protect oneself from then a local lawyer with reasonable rates should be fine....Tell the truth.. it's cost effective.

[Lostnote]

16. Cost effective truth.... Nice observation...

[machoneman]

26. Good is right!

This may deter many a potential republiscums from joining Trump's failing presidency.

More so, the more qualified the job seeker, the less likely they will join this band of brigands, therefore allowing worse and likely totally unqualified folks to fill those positions.

A self-defeating, downward spiraling administration if I ever saw one!

[onecaliberal]

2. Cry me a Fucking river, my family has been crushed with medical debt TWICE in

Our lifetimes. We don't have the money for ANY college fund.

[Scarsdale]

20. Exactly.

Plus, you never worked to install a totally unqualified lunatic into the WH. Surely it had to be obvious to these "aides" that tRump was not presidential material? What, exactly, was in it for them getting him into office?? Karma is a bitch, isn't it??

[not fooled]

30. Yep

Lie down with a crazy-ass incompetent boob criminal conman Russian puppet candidate, get up with fleas and debt.

Anyone who voluntarily went towards dump--when any decent person was repelled--and enlisted in the campaign deserves all the tears that follow. Not to mention demonizing and denying the legitimate candidate in order to install the boob in the White House.

Oh, and the pukes are the party of "personal responsibility". Yet don't give a rat's ass about honest Americans who find themselves in medical debt. So don't expect sympathy from decent people.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. I'm sure Trump could help pay for his defense

But he won't.

Wonder if Caputo could contribute any evidence to the Mueller investigation.

[Hekate]

27. If he's smart he and his lawyer will co-operate with Mueller

[FakeNoose]

4. So this guy gets a pass because he can afford the right lawyer?

Is that how it works? I hope this expensive lawyer tells him to make a deal and plead guilty.

[Johnyawl]

18. The expensive lawyer will tell him to make a deal...

...once he has all the traitor's money.

[NastyRiffraff]

5. I can't shed one tear for this asshole

"..nobody's called me and offered to help," whines Mike. What the hell did he expect from the slimy, poisonous slugs he hangs with?

I do feel something for his children, but he can rot in jail.

[Johnyawl]

19. His children can look out for themselves...

...and maybe learn from their father's mistakes. My son put himself through 8 years of college to become a veterinarian, and he did that without a trust fund and very little help from older, divorced parents who were struggling with medical expenses and trying to prepare for retirement.

[Phoenix61]

24. That is quite an accomplishment

Vet school is so much harder than most people realize.

[briv1016]

6. The only reason he'd need "specialized representation" is if he has exposure

and if he has exposure he has the ability to flip. He's choosing to stay quiet. Why?

[Ligyron]

8. Hell, we could have told him THAT.

I personally wouldn't have charged him anything.

[Calista241]

45. If you go through a deposition without seeking legal advice and representation

You deserve what happens to you.

I would bet he'll be made whole with a "bonus" or through a scholarship offer for his kids at some point though. At a future date and after the conclusion of the special council's probe of course.

[briv1016]

46. No I'm not saying he shouldn't need any representation, but his need for "specialized councel" means

he knows a local/general criminal defense attorney and the truth would not be enough to keep him out of prison.

[Calista241]

47. I don't think that's the case.

Mueller has hired the best team of attorneys out there. Going into a deposition with some 2nd rate or clock punching lawyer is asking for trouble.

Just ask President Clinton how off the rails these things can go. He was disbarred and impeached for something totally and completely unrelated to the special prosecutors appointment.

It's a lesson I'm sure everyone in Washington has learned.

[justhanginon]

7. Maybe next time Caputo should choose his employer more carefully.

If your would be employer just paid out 25,000,000 buckaroos in a fraud settlement and is being sued by myriad people and businesses for non-payment etc.,you might just want to look a little more carefully at his ethical practices before signing up. It doesn't take a master's degree just a sense of personal integrity. We are indeed known by the company we keep!

[Scarsdale]

21. All any of them

had to do was LISTEN and WATCH tRump on TV. It is clear as day that he is mentally unbalanced. Not very bright, an ego driven lump of lard.

[not fooled]

31. Yet they also saw

a significant percent of 'Muricans responding to said boob with gleeful support. So, they dismissed all the abundant evidence that dump was unfit because he was the only puke candidate to generate enthusiasm among the morans.

They sold out the nation to a dangerous incompetent in order to gain power.

[PatrickforO]

9. You should not have committed treason.

I'm sorry about your children's college fund, by my parents had to use up mine, too, when they had financial problems many years ago. Of course, my father's problems did not stem from treason...

[NCjack]

36. Maybe Russia will give Caputo's kids scholarships to Putin U. nt

[displacedtexan]

10. Caputo can get back to me after seven years of legal costs.

Repubes rejoiced when Dem staffers spent 1993-2000 trying to do their jobs and fight the legal battles created from thin air by Ken Starr, Newt and every other R. The Clintons left the White House in serious debt due to their legal costs, as well. Then, Repukes pitched a walleyed fit when they made money writing books and giving speeches.

[jrthin]

11. Boo-hoo. So bigly sad. He should be more careful

About the company he keeps.

[UpInArms]

12. If he didn't do anything wrong, why does he need an attorney?

Methinks he protesteth too much

[Yupster]

40. That sounds reasonable, but it's not

You get a call from the special prosecutor, you go see a lawyer, and an experienced one who deals with special prosecutors will be expensive.

They'll tell you that most indictments from special prosecutors have nothing to do with the original item being investigated, but instead are for things like obstructing justice or lying to the FBI.

Therefore, you have to go over each piece of paper and get your story straight because if you tell two different stories in two different interviews, you'll be open to indictment.

Low level staffers are particularly vulnerable as they don't make that much money and often don't have much saved up to begin with at their age.

[UpInArms]

49. Sorry ... I forgot to add my

Emoji

[maxrandb]

13. Aren't these ReTrumplicans always telling poor and middle class Americans

that if "they did nothing wrong, there's no need for a lawyer"?

[maxrandb]

14. Hey Fuckstick! Here's an option for ya'

[riversedge]

15. Ask the Trump to pay for your defense.

[Bradical79]

17. Start at Community College

Save some money.

[Dawson Leery]

22. Screw his children (who will be as bad as he)

The Fascist Party wants to destroy the Americans With Disabilities Act.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/15/1698875/-Republicans-seize-the-Trump-moment-plan-to-gut-the-Americans-with-Disabilities-Act

Perhaps Mr. Caputo should have chosen a better employer.

Afterall, if you have nothing to hide, why do you need a lawyer?

Isn't that what the Fascist Party says to minorities who are arrested?

[katmondoo]

23. Republicans all think they and only they are just wonderful

Being so wonderful has a price so just pay for it.

[jmbar2]

25. Talk to Besty DeVos...

I'm sure she can give you good advice on student loans.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. NO one has called to help you? You mean Donald Trump hasnt

contacted you and offered to pay your attorney fees?

weird

Anyone who would work with trump, in any format for any reason deserves what comes their way.

[C_U_L8R]

29. Whining via PR campaign

All that's missing is the crowdfunding address. Republicans will stoop to anything.

[Leith]

32. He Can Do What rethugs Force on the Rest of Us

Suck it up, pay through the nose, and have college debt for decades.

Caputo's a whiny snowflake.

[Achilleaze]

33. Whiney republican TreasonWeasels are sad

Betraying America is even sadder.

[jmowreader]

34. When you lie down with dogs...

Let's be vicious here: after all the crap they pulled on the Clintons, I hope not only that everyone associated with Donald Trump's organization not only winds up poor but that they can't find anyone to help bail them out.

Let them flip burgers in Kansas for the rest of their miserable lives.

[Locrian]

37. what do the republicans aways say?

Oh yeah: "If you're not guilty, you have nothing to worry about."

Wait... he better worry.

[dixiegrrrrl]

38. Yeah!! what you said...yeah!!!

[cntrfthrs]

39. bankrupt the lot of them...

like NODAPL is presently doing to ETP and the racist state of north dakota...

[MrScorpio]

41. Poor little fella

[ProgressiveValue]

42. He could have turned a lawyer down and took his chances.

Risky, probably assured guilty, but wouldn't have cost anything.

[Paladin]

43. Meanwhile, the whole country's paying for trump's INcompetency.

Blow it out your ass, Caputo. This is what happens when you make common cause with an experience-free lunatic. I hope your kids never forgive you.

[Cold War Spook]

44. GI Bill

That is the way I paid for college. Okay, I have to admit, my grades did not get me into college. Massachusetts at that time guaranteed veterans that they would be accepted to any state college or university as long as they had a high school diploma.

[ProfessorGAC]

48. What Happened To Bootstraps?

Bootstrap pulling is not so attractive when that boot is on one's own foot, is it Caputo?