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Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
5. I believe that is illegal
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 03:10 PM
Aug 2017
https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/can-campaign-funds-pay-criminal-defense-lawyer-maybe


The trouble for Donald Jr. is that in order to tap into the campaign funds to pay for his lawyer, he must assert that his legal costs were generated by his role in the campaign. But this limits the range of his other defenses because this concession forecloses any defense that the famous meeting in Trump Tower with Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and the Russians wasn’t a campaign event. He can’t have it both ways. Either it was a campaign event which opens him up to possible liability for violations of the ban on foreign solicitations or it was not a campaign event and he owes the Trump campaign $50,000 for his legal fees.

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