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Fredreka Schouten and Christopher Schnaars , USA TODAY
Published 4:30 p.m. ET July 15, 2017
Updated 4:41 p.m. ET July 15, 2017
... Trump's campaign racked up more than $677,000 in "legal consulting" fees between April and June, more than twice the $249,000 he spent on legal bills during the first three months of his presidency, newly filed Federal Election Commission reports show.
Most of the legal expenses were tied to his longtime election law firm, Jones Day.
But the filings also show a nearly $90,000 payment for legal expenses to his company, the Trump Organization, and $50,000 payment on June 27 to the law firm of Alan Futerfas, the New York-based criminal attorney now representing Donald Trump Jr ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/15/trump-campaign-shoulders-big-legal-bills-russia-probes-rapidly-expand/481981001/
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(28,136 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He's a big boy with a personal fortune in the millions; is this what citizens' campaign contributions are going for - legal fees?