Hope Hicks nearly $500,000 legal fees are being paid by donations to the Republican Party

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Source: raw story






20 May 2018 at 23:25 ET


Former White House communications director Hope Hicks might have been a Democrat in the past, but the Republican Party has forked over nearly $500,000 in legal fees for the longtime aide to President Donald Trump.

If Republican donors are bothered by the stack of scandals lining up for the head of their party, they’re likely even less happy about the fact that their large donations are going straight out the door to lawyers for Trump’s staff, the Washington Post reported Sunday.


“The RNC’s $451,780 payment to Trout Cacheris & Janis adds to the mounting legal fees associated with the investigations by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and several congressional committees of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign,” The Post wrote.

Hicks hired Robert Trout in September 2017, and according to Federal Election Commission report filed Sunday, he has continued to be paid for over six months. There are three lawyers in the firm that currently represent people being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller, the firm’s site said.

The substantial campaign funds being forked over for Trump Team legal fees prompted some party officials to look at a separate legal defense fund last year. The RNC decided, however, that they could use the party to pay for Trump’s legal fees.

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That is a lot of money, yes it is. But unless the donors raise a stink, it probably will go on.

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Gothmog]

2. The RNC is worried about Hope Hicks

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[Achilleaze]

4. Bing-o-roni !

if she starts squealing on Comrade Casino and the darkside KGOP republican money-laundering & treason collective, the bigly messy mass of republican traitors is going down. And they know it.

[Cosmocat]

13. I have contended all along that she will be a key player in this

No one had more close contact with 45, had to have been actively involved or party to a L O T of dirt.

[notdarkyet]

3. That okay. They can waste their donors donations on lawyers instead of campaigns.

[Scarsdale]

7. The RNC is paying for Don "Chinless Wonder" Jr. lawyer

fees, too. If he does not shut the hell up soon, the RNC will run out of donations! Not that that is a bad thing, but who are the idiots who keep sending money for these layabouts? Hicks will not take any chances on going to prison, so she will squeal louder than she did for Lewendowski when they were having their affair.

[Scarsdale]

8. Louder than she did

for tRump or Rob the wife beater, too. Hicks must have been the "comfort keeper" for the WH.

[flibbitygiblets]

11. works for me!

drain the accounts!

[leanforward]

5. "hush, hush sweet Charlotte"

Hope, don't you cry, . . . . . ., he'll love you till he resigns.

Maybe!

[turbinetree]

6. And what is the treasonous sexual predators fees up to now.......................

This is amazing, if you or I were to get busted for something, why not go to the democratic party and ask for money to pay the bill for a traffic ticket, for example, since after all I am a democrat, since I have voted in the last 10 presidential election cycles, couldn't vote during Vietnam.

That's the same fucking logic.....................

[sandensea]

9. Protecting the boss' mistress is always good policy in any criminal enterprise.

[flibbitygiblets]

12. Notice his tiny hand around her waist? I totally let my boss touch me like that too!

SO appropriate and not in any way creepy, demeaning or sexual.

[sandensea]

16. Poor Melania.

I can just hear her Slovenian mother: "Don't let it get to you, honey. You'll be rid of him soon."

[flibbitygiblets]

10. Unless she lied when she met with Mueller, it doesn't matter how much $ her lawyer gets

She was on AF1 when shit hit the fan about the Russia meeting at Trump Tower. So when she met with Mueller, either she did or did not admit that Trump made up that phony statement about the "russian adoptions". If she lied, she's facing prison, and has to flip or take a chance she'll get pardoned. If she told the truth, Mueller has Trump by the nuts, right?

[YOHABLO]

14. Hmm, the only people that are benefiting from all of this mess are the lawyers.

[dembotoz]

15. get the impression trump and co never really paid attention to the laws

being rich enough and connected enough with lawyers enough it just always worked out.

thinking the learning curve of what they can get away with just got cut...alot....and they are vulnerable

[Gothmog]

17. This is how Trump is trying to buy the loyalty of key aides in the Russia investigation

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