Below is an excerpt from Axios:
President Biden used campaign donations to help pay his legal bills last year during the special counsel’s probe into his handling of classified documents, according to two people familiar with the matter and an Axios review of campaign finance records.
Why it matters: 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.
Driving the news: The Democratic National Committee — which has been collecting the biggest donations to Biden’s re-election effort — paid more than $1.5 million to lawyers or firms representing Biden during the probe, according to the committee’s financial filings.
Axios then laid out the numbers, as they noted that special counsel Robert Hur opened his investigation into the classified documents found stashed away at Joe Biden’s home, garage and office from his days as a senator and as vice president.
Hur’s investigation began in January 2023.
Then, between July 2023 to February 2024, the Democratic National Committee shelled out $1.05 million to Bob Bauer PLLC, a firm connected to Biden’s lead attorney, Bob Bauer. According to Axios, those payments were largely to cover expenses for Hur’s classified documents probe.
Axios points out the hypocrisy, noting that the Biden team has repeatedly attacked Trump for using campaign donations to help with his legal expenses.
Below is another excerpt from the report:
After the Justice Department appointed Hur as special counsel in Biden’s documents case in January 2023, Biden officials debated whether to have the Democratic National Committee cover the legal costs, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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That was after the Democratic National Committee had mocked the Republican National Committee for picking up some of Trump’s legal tab.
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In 2021 when the Republican National Committee began paying some of Trump’s expenses stemming from the state civil fraud probe into Trump’s real estate empire, a Democratic National Committee spokesperson told The New York Times: “If we were the Republican National Committee’s donors, we would certainly be asking questions.”
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Scoop: The Democratic National Committee paid for Biden’s legal bills for the Hur probe, per 2 ppl familiar and FEC records.
The payments are at odds with some of the Biden team’s more recent attacks on Trump for using campaign cash for his legal bills.https://t.co/62jkANIlMV— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) April 12, 2024
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