{"id":47594,"date":"2017-10-16T05:36:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T05:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=47594"},"modified":"2017-10-16T05:36:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T05:36:41","slug":"trump-campaign-legal-bills-topped-1-million-last-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-campaign-legal-bills-topped-1-million-last-quarter.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign legal bills topped $1 million last quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump campaign legal bills topped $1 million last quarter<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump campaign legal bills topped $1 million last quarter:- President Trump\u2019s reelection committee spent more than $1 million on legal bills last quarter as investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election pressed on through the summer, according to a disclosure filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The filing shows the committee\u2019s \u201clegal consulting\u201d expenditures came to $1.1 million between July and September, including $802,185 paid to the law firm Jones Day, which has represented the campaign. Another $267,000 was paid to attorneys representing the president\u2019s \u00adeldest son, Donald Trump Jr., in the Russia investigations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Since the beginning of the year, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have spent $2.4 million on legal fees \u2014 and the bills appear to be mounting. The latest FEC reports show that the campaign spent more on legal bills over the past three months than it did during the first and second quarters of this year combined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and multiple congressional committees have active probes into Russian interference. The RNC and the campaign are helping the Trump family and employees pay legal fees incurred by the various investigations, which is permitted under federal law as long as the costs are related to campaign activity. Last month, the RNC confirmed it had directed more than $427,000 to lawyers representing Trump and his eldest son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Overall, the Trump campaign and two related fundraising committees collected $11.6 million between July and September and spent $5.6 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Trump committee\u2019s payments included $237,924 to Alan Futerfas, a New York defense lawyer who is representing Donald Trump Jr. and other Trump Organization employees in the Russia probes. The campaign also paid $30,000 to the law firm Williams &amp; Jensen, which has been working with Futerfas on matters concerning Trump Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The younger Trump testified for five hours before a closed meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee in early September. During the session, he was asked for details about a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer who reportedly promised to provide negative information about Hillary Clinton, his father\u2019s Democratic opponent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The campaign committee also reimbursed the president\u2019s company, the Trump Organization, $25,800 for legal consulting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">During the first six months of the year, the Trump campaign reported spending $927,171 on legal fees \u2014 less than the $1.1 million total spent in the last three months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The numbers are likely to go higher as Mueller\u2019s team, along with the Senate and House intelligence committees, continue their probes into Russian interference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The special counsel has focused investigative attention on two former campaign advisers, Paul Manafort, once Trump\u2019s campaign chairman, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. On Friday, the special counsel\u2019s office interviewed Trump\u2019s former White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, for several hours behind closed doors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Mueller\u2019s team has also expressed interest in interviewing White House counsel Donald McGahn and Communications Director Hope Hicks, according to people familiar with his requests. Neither the Trump campaign nor the Trump Organization responded immediately to requests for comment Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-campaign-legal-bills-topped-1-million-last-quarter\/2017\/10\/15\/4930d9b8-b1d6-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.9bd31a30fcb4<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-campaign-legal-bills-topped-1-million-last-quarter.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump campaign legal bills topped $1 million last quarter Trump campaign legal bills topped $1 million last quarter:- President Trump\u2019s reelection committee spent more than $1 million on legal bills last quarter as investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election pressed on through the summer, according to a disclosure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3472,78476,78479,78477,8861,10329,78478,78475],"class_list":["post-47594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-futerfas","tag-legal-fees","tag-mueller","tag-president-trump","tag-russian","tag-the-trump-organization","tag-trump-campaign-legal-bills-topped-1-million-last-quarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}