President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign has spent nearly $1.2 million in legal fees so far this year, including $348,000 over the last three months, according to fundraising reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, BuzzFeed News reports.
Most of the money went to the law firm Jones Day, which has represented Trump since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The Trump campaign paid Jones Day $180,000, while the rest was split among seven law firms.
Harder LLP and Larocca, Hornik, Roen, Greenberg & Blaha were paid a combined $54,000, while Belkin, Burden, Wenig & Goldman LLP, Schertler & Onarato LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Van Hoy, Reutlinger, Adams & Dunn PLLC and McDermott Will & Emery received the remaining 108,500. The Trump Corporation was also paid $5,500 for legal fees.
The spending is small compared to last quarter, when the reelection campaign spent $835,000, or more than one-fifth of the $3.9 million the campaign had spent in 2017. The bills come as special counsel Robert Mueller looks to wrap up his investigation into whether the Trump campaign was involved with Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Mueller is planning on wrapping up parts of his investigation by summer’s end. He is also looking into whether Trump obstructed justice when he allegedly asked former FBI director James Comey to end the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Trump has repeatedly discredited the probe, calling it a witch hunt that is wasting taxpayers’ money.
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