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Democratic Party has helped Biden cover his legal bills
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https://wapo.st/3Q18DKJ

The Democratic National Committee has helped cover some of the legal fees that President Biden incurred over the last year amid a special counsel probe into his handling of classified documents, according to recent federal records.

Throughout the investigation, which special counsel Robert K. Hur concluded last month without bringing charges, Biden was represented by his longtime counsel Bob Bauer and several other attorneys. Bob Bauer PLCC, a firm set up by Bauer, has so far been paid $1 million by the DNC, according to Federal Election Commission records. The committee has also increased its payments to Hemenway & Barnes, a firm that employs Jennifer Miller, another attorney who worked on the case for Biden.

Bauer was paid $150,000 almost every month starting in July 2023, the records show, while Hemenway & Barnes was paid $100,000. Both Bauer and the law firm have done other work for the DNC on a range of issues, including voter protection, and both are likely to continue doing so. Given that, it is unclear whether all the recent payments are related to the Hur investigation or whether that total legal bill has been paid.

In recent weeks, some Biden allies have noted derisively that a significant portion of the money raised by the campaign of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is going toward his legal fees rather than to his reelection effort. While Biden’s legal bills are dramatically lower than those Trump has paid from campaign donations, the president’s use of political funds, which was first reported by Axios on Friday morning, could undercut some recent assertions by Biden’s surrogates.

“Every single dime that you give to the Biden-Harris reelection campaign, we spend talking to voters,” Rufus Gifford, the campaign’s finance chairman, said over the weekend during an interview on MSNBC. He added later: “We are not spending money on legal bills.”

Kevin Munoz, a Biden campaign spokesman, said that Gifford was referring only to spending by the Biden campaign and not that of the DNC, a party entity that supports the president and jointly raises money with him but is not officially part of his campaign.
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#2
I'm not liking this, but it was lame to try to conflate the Biden-Harris campaign with the DNC. Typical poor journalism.

On second thought, the article is TERRIBLE journalism. It's a big bag of logical fallacies, whataboutism, both-sideism, and mutes the fact that Biden was exonerated while Trump has been indicted on 91 counts.

You are supposed to read the headline and share it on Twitter without reading the content. "Democratic Party has helped Biden cover his legal bills". The fourth estate is a pile of straw these days.
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$tevie wrote:
I'm not liking this, but it was lame to try to conflate the Biden-Harris campaign with the DNC. Typical poor journalism.

I do not know the historical nature - has campaign funding been used to cover legal expenses of candidates in the past? I know some politicians, they do NOT have personal funds to pay for a full legal team. So it's not unimaginable that this is not new. I am just ignorant about precedent.
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#4
1. Did it pay for any litigation expenses? No, because there wasn't any litigation.
2. Did it come from campaign funds? No.
3. There is no 3. This is an absolute nothing burger. There is no reasonable comparison between this and the what Trump is doing.
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#5
the grifter in chief? As he enjoys another weekend off at his beach house, after a long, hard day that included a zoom call
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#6
Trump would be golfing, if he weren’t preparing for his next trial and scheming how to get out of it.
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Mr645 wrote:
the grifter in chief? As he enjoys another weekend off at his beach house, after a long, hard day that included a zoom call

Trump Spends Two-Thirds of his Time as President Doing Nothing in Particular, Leaked Documents Show

Insider leaks Trump's "Executive Time"-filled private schedules

May 22, 2023

"Biden has spent all or part of 256 days of his presidency either on vacation or at one of his homes in Delaware. He has all or part of 75 days at Camp David (the unofficial designated getaway for presidents) and 68 days overseas."

"Trump had spent all or part of 250 days at a property he owned by that point in his presidency. He had spent all or part of 18 days at Camp David and 45 days on foreign trips."

"Trump’s trips out of the White House were generally to places where his presence was a direct asset to his business and therefore his personal income. His interactions with club members and their guests were linked to various efforts to influence public policy."



“We won with poorly educated…" "I love the poorly educated!"
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#8
Of course, way too many people are going to see this and jump to: Both Trump and Biden do the same thing; in effect, the two are equivalent.

But Trump has spent $76 million on lawyers the last two years (and growing fast). The article says that the outlay for Biden is $1 million. That works out to a little over 1% of Trump's outlays. False equivalence in terms of money outlay and no doubt false equivalence on several other grounds as well.
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#9
It doesn't matter where a president is - he is working. There is still briefings and decisions. That is unless he ignores all those things, but what president would do that :RollingEyesSmiley5:
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pdq wrote:
Trump would be golfing, and stuffing Whoppers, if he weren’t preparing for his next trial and scheming how to get out of it.

FTFU
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