Trump campaign paid legal fees to firm representing Jared Kushner

[billh58]

Source: ABC News

President Donald Trump's campaign has spent nearly $100,000 of donor money to pay legal bills to the firm representing Jared Kushner, the latest campaign finance records show.

The president's re-election campaign made two payments to the firm, Winston & Strawn LLP – $55,330 and $42,574. The expenditures were payments to Kushner's attorney Abbe Lowell for Kushner’s legal fees, sources with knowledge of the payments told to ABC News. Lowell joined the firm in May 2018.

“Low dollar” contributions – $200 or less – made up 98.5 percent of the total funds raised by the Trump campaign in the last quarter of 2018, a consistent trend throughout the year, according to a press release by the campaign, along with the latest campaign finance filings.

Kushner, who is married to Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka, is a real estate scion who earned more than $1.7 million in income in 2015, the year before he joined his wife’s family to work in the White House, according to a New York Times review of confidential financial documents published in October. His net worth has been estimated at more than $300 million.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-paid-legal-fees-firm-representing-jared/story?id=60912887

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And the criminals keep being true to their natures...

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Would that be Campaign Finance violation perhaps?

Misuse of donor money for personal use? Is this corruption at its finest?

[ffr]

2. Was that wrong? Yes, I do believe so.

Ruh-roh!

Lock them up!

[duforsure]

3. And if not reported more campaign violations.

Every day now we learn more criminal acts have been committed by trump. How many days of this before republicans help remove him from office? They're destroying their own party allowing this to continue like this, and it'll only get worse for him , and them.

[Botany]

4. At this point it would be easier to just list the laws that Trump & company didn't break

n/t

[Leghorn21]

5. +++++

FACT

[Andy823]

6. You should add

Didn't break "yet"! Give him time.

[wishstar]

7. $228,000 of Cohen's legal bills were paid by Trump Campaign too last year

I believe I also read that Hope Hicks and maybe a couple others who were part of campaign got help on legal bills related to their lawyering up to deal with Mueller probe.

[billh58]

8. You are correct. From the linked article:

Since 2017, the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have been patrons for a number of former and current Trump associates caught up in the special counsel probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

This includes more than $276,000 the Trump campaign spent between October 2017 and April 2018 to cover some of the legal bills for the president's then personal attorney Michael Cohen, who was in a joint defense agreement with Trump.

The Republican National Committee also paid nearly $590,000 to a firm representing Trump's former communications director Hope Hicks, who appeared before the House Intelligence Committee last February for a closed-door interview related to Russia interference. According to Republicans and Democrats on the panel, Hicks refused to answer questions about her time in the White House. The Trump campaign and the RNC together also paid firms representing Donald Trump, Jr., more than $514,000.

More recently, the Trump campaign paid more than $173,000 to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, a law firm that has represented former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and more than $101,000 to Larocca, Hornik, Greenberg & Blaha, a firm that represents Trump's security team. The campaign also drastically upped its payment to Trump's attorney Mark Kasowitz' firm, according to the latest campaign finance report.

The Trump campaign has spent more than $6.7 million in legal fees in the last two years.