The Democratic National Committee (DNC) covered legal fees for President Biden during the special counsel’s investigation into his possession of classified documents, while his campaign criticized the Republican National Committee for paying the former President Trump’s legal fees for his various criminal charges.
The DNC paid former President Obama attorney Bob Bauer, who is also married to senior White House counsel Anita Dunn, for “legal services” after it was revealed the lawyer had been tapped to handle the president’s classified documents scandal.
The DNC has paid lawyers representing President Biden, leaving, while he is under investigation into his possession of classified documents by special counsel Robert Hur, while his campaign has criticized the use of former President Trump of donor funds to pay his legal fees. (Getty Images, US Department of Justice)
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More than $1.05 million was paid to Bauer and other lawyers representing Biden during special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation, with payments from July 2023 to February 2024, according to Axios, who 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 cent of grassroots donors’ money on legal fees, unlike Donald Trump, who actively demanding legal fees from his supporters and drawing on every bank account he can get his hands on like a personal piggy bank.”
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The DNC has paid lawyers to represent President Biden, right, because he is under investigation over his possession of classified documents by special counsel Robert Hur. (Getty Images)
News of the DNC’s payments to Biden’s lawyers in the Hur investigation came as the president’s campaign hit Trump for using donor money to pay his legal debts.
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Former President Trump is facing several criminal charges. (Getty Images)
Biden’s campaign recently criticized Trump for a “lack of funding,” questioning whether it was a good strategy to reach out to “donors to help pay off your own personal debts instead of funding your campaign.”
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President Biden has been criticized for storing classified documents in his garage and Corvette. (Joe Biden 2020)
Last week, Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said that Biden’s fundraising was “a stark contrast to Trump’s cash-strapped operation that is drawing out limited and billionaire reliant on the funds it needs to pay.” his various legal fees.”
Fox News Digital did not immediately receive comments from the Biden campaign or the White House Counsel’s office.
“Joe Biden and the Democrats’ entire campaign against President Trump is based on lies and hypocrisy – they repeatedly say they are not spending money on Biden’s legal fees, while they attack President Trump to defend himself from Biden’s arrests,” the Trump campaign said in a statement. “Come to find out, the DNC paid millions to cover Biden’s legal fees to a law firm run by the husband of top White House staffer Anita Dunn. Apparently, ‘10% for the big guy’ from Hunter wasn’t enough for Crooked Joe to pay his own bills.”
As the DNC’s Floyd noted, Trump’s various committees have spent tens of millions in covers legal fees for the former president, and they still have asking for donations by mentioning the criminal cases involving him. In contrast, Biden’s campaign did not use the legal matter involving the president to urge supporters to donate.
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