UPDATED - Trump Team Reportedly Wants RNC to Cover Legal Defense Costs for Russia Investigations
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Source: Mediaite
by Ken Meyer | 12:38 pm, July 14th, 2017
A new report is suggesting that some of President Trump‘s inner circle are trying to get the Republican National Committee to cover his legal bills as long as the administration continues to face questions related to the Russia investigations.
Washington Post ran an article on Thursday which explored how Trump’s unfiltered style is creating additional complications for the legal counselors defending him and his associates. The profile noted that some people want Trump to use the RNC’s legal defense fund to handle the costs of the White House’s legal representatives for matters pertaining to the inquiries.
Devlin Barrett, one of the contributing writers for this piece, appeared with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle and Ari Velshi on Friday to talk about what it means when Trump doesn’t listen to his team’s legal advice. Barrett explained how the administration’s lawyers are challenged not only by the new revelations about Donald Trump Jr., but also by the lack of cohesion in their defense arguments. Barrett also defended his reporting with regard to the RNC:
<< “There have been some fairly robust…discussions about getting the Republican National Committee to pay for some of the president’s legal bills. I think that’s a hard sell in some ways to the RNC. They have their own things they want to pay for. But that shows you that there’s a lot of competing interests, let’s say, in how this gets resolved and who pays for what. The legal bills are going to be huge, no question.” >>
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RNC chair: 'I don't even know' if it's legal for RNC to pay Trump's legal fees
By Chris Massie, CNN
Updated 11:37 AM ET, Fri July 14, 2017
(CNN)Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said Friday that she doesn't know if the RNC can legally cover the legal costs for President Donald Trump's administration in the ongoing Russia investigations.
Romney McDaniel was asked on Washington radio station WMAL's "Mornings on the Mall" about a Washington Post report that said "some in Trump's orbit are pushing the Republican National Committee to bear the costs" for legal fees Trump and other officials amass in retaining attorneys amid the inquiries into whether the campaign colluded with the Russian government during last year's election.
The story also said that the RNC was researching whether it was legal to cover the fees but that some within the committee thought it would be more appropriate to create a different legal defense fund instead of using an already existing RNC fund.
"First of all, I don't even know if that's legal, if we would even be allowed to do that," Romney McDaniel said in Friday's radio interview. "So there's just nothing that I can comment on on that front right now. So that would have to go through the lawyers first before it would come to us."
Asked if the RNC would pay those costs if it determined it was legal for the committee to do so, Romney McDaniel replied that she also had to take into account the preferences of the committee's donors. "I'm always going to look to support the President. But we've gotta just make sure that anything we do is legal and then we'd have to talk to people who donated to us and make sure they'd want to do it that way," she said. "There's other ways to support the President. There's a legal defense fund that you could start. There's lots of other ways. But we of course support the President."
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pay for their criminal protection.
Hey he worked free for trump, right Republicans? or was he 'paid' in some way?