Democratic Party has helped Biden cover his legal bills

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President Biden’s allies have criticized Donald Trump for using campaign funds to pay his own legal bills.

Special counsel Robert K. Hur testifies before a House committee in March as President Biden is shown on video. incurred over the last year amid a special counsel probe into his handling of classified documents, according to recent federal records.

Throughout the investigation, which special counsel Robert K. Hur concluded last month without bringing charges, Biden was represented by his longtime counsel Bob Bauer and several other attorneys. Bob Bauer PLCC, a firm set up by Bauer, has so far been paid $1 million by the DNC, according to Federal Election Commission records. The committee has also increased its payments to Hemenway & Barnes, a firm that employs Jennifer Miller, another attorney who worked on the case for Biden.

Bauer was paid $150,000 almost every month starting in July 2023, the records show, while Hemenway & Barnes was paid $100,000. Both Bauer and the law firm have done other work for the DNC on a range of issues, including voter protection, and both are likely to continue doing so. Given that, it is unclear whether all the recent payments are related to the Hur investigation or whether that total legal bill has been paid.

Two of Trump’s committees, the Save America leadership PAC and the Make America Great Again PAC, spent $55.6 million on the former president’s legal bills in 2023. The Republican National Committee has not footed his legal bills so far this campaign cycle, but when he was president, the RNC paid lawyers to represent Trump as well as his son amid investigations of his 2016 campaign and its alleged connections to Russia.

“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,” Leavitt said. “Come to find out, the DNC paid millions to cover Biden’s legal bills.”“There is no comparison,” DNC spokesman Alex Floyd said.

 

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