According to an Axios report, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid for President Biden’s legal fees during special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.
Team Biden has previously criticized Team Trump for taking RNC cash for Trump’s legal fees. A DNC spokesperson told The New York Times in December 2021: “If we were the RNC’s donors, we would certainly be asking questions.”
“Pot, meet kettle,” the official RNC X account posted along with the Axios story.
From Axios:
From July 2023 to February 2024, the DNC paid $1.05 million to Bob Bauer PLLC — the professional limited liability company for Biden’s lead attorney, Bob Bauer.
Those payments were largely for handling the special counsel probe, including bringing on veteran lawyer David Laufman. He’s a former Justice Department official who previously oversaw the politically fraught probes into Hillary Clinton’s email server and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Last weekend, the Biden campaign’s finance chair said on MSNBC that “every single time you give to the campaign, we’re going straight to talk to voters…We are not spending money on legal bills or hawking gold sneakers,” a reference to Trump.
Asked about Biden’s use of the DNC to pay his legal bills, DNC spokesperson Alex Floyd told Axios: “There is no comparison — the DNC does not spend a single penny of grassroots donors’ money on legal bills — unlike Donald Trump, who actively solicits legal fees from his supporters and has drawn down every bank account he can get his hands on, like a personal piggy bank.”
More over at Axios:
POT, MEET KETTLE: DNC covered Biden legal bills in special counsel probe https://t.co/FyKDPhUOyX
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 12, 2024
