Posted on 04/12/2024 10:41:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump's using campaign donations to cover legal bills has become a hot topic in the media as they seek to undermine his campaign. However, he's not the only presidential candidate who has used campaign donations to cover legal expenses.
According to a new report from Axios, Joe Biden similarly utilized campaign donations to pay his legal expenses last year during the special counsel investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. Axios spoke with two sources familiar with the situation and conducted its own review of campaign finance documents to corroborate this.
This is a rather significant revelation because, as the outlet notes, "The payments, made through the Democratic National Committee, are at odds with the Biden campaign's recent attacks on Donald Trump for spending his campaign funds on legal fees."
"Every single time you give to the campaign, we're going straight to talk to voters," claimed Biden's campaign finance chair last weekend on MSNBC. "We are not spending money on legal bills or hawking gold sneakers."
According to the financial filings of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which has been jointly fundraising with Joe Biden through the entirety of this campaign, they paid $1.5 million to lawyers and law firms on behalf of Biden as he was investigated for mishandling classified documents.
In January 2023, Special Counsel Robert Hur began his investigation of Biden's handling of classified documents after they were discovered in his office at the Penn Biden Center and at his Delaware home in his garage. From July 2023 to February 2024, DNC paid $1.05 million to Bob Bauer PLLC, the professional limited liability company of Biden's lead attorney, Bob Bauer. "Those payments were largely for handling the special counsel probe, including bringing on veteran lawyer David Laufman,"
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"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 told Axios.
Unlike Biden, Trump is also the target of partisan investigations by Soros-funded district attorneys and the Biden administration.
Speaking of ‘piggy bank’, Amalgamated Bank should be investigated for laundering money for the DNC
Not our humble servant of the people king Jo?
Alex Floyd is a lousy propaganda spokesperson for the DNC like all the rest in the party.
They like to blame others for what they do look over there....
I received several emails from the Trump campaign asking for assistance to Stop the Witch Hunt!
Many people then donated to assist him in that specific endeavor. Sort of like Rona McDaniel soliciting funds to STOP THE Steal! in 2020.
Only she didn’t use the collected funds for that.
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