The Democratic National Committee (DNC) covered legal fees for President Biden during the special counsel probe into his possession of classified documents, while his campaign slammed the Republican National Committee for paying former President Trump’s legal bills for his various criminal indictments.
The DNC paid former President Obama lawyer Bob Bauer, who is also married to senior White House adviser Anita Dunn, for “legal services” after it was revealed the attorney had been tapped to handle the president’s classified documents scandal.
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Over $1.05 million was doled out to Bauer and other lawyers representing Biden during Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation, with payments being made from July 2023 to February 2024, according to Axios, which first reported the story.
DNC Spokesman Alex Floyd told Fox News Digital in a statement, “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.”
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News of the DNC’s payments to Biden’s lawyers in the Hur investigation comes as the president’s campaign has hit Trump for using donor money to pay off his legal debts.
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Biden’s campaign recently slammed Trump over a “lack of funding,” questioning if it is good strategy to reach out to “donors to help cover your own personal debts instead of funding your campaign.”
Last week, Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said Biden’s fundraising was in “stark contrast to Trump’s cash-strapped operation that is funneling the limited and billionaire-reliant funds it has to pay…
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