Democratic National Committee paid lawyers who represented Biden in special counsel probe
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The Democratic National Committee has paid law firms that represented Joe Biden in the special counsel probe into his handling of classified documents, federal records show, even as the president’s aides have lambasted Donald Trump for directing donors’ money to help pay his mounting legal fees.
The Democratic National Committee has paid law firms that represented Joe Biden in the special counsel probe into his handling of classified documents, federal records show, even as the president’s aides have lambasted Donald Trump for directing donors’ money to help pay his mounting legal fees. The DNC has paid $1.05 million to the professional limited liability company for Biden’s personal attorney Bob Bauer since July, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Bauer has represented Biden in the probe by special counsel Robert Hur. The national party also paid nearly $905,000 to the firm Hemenway & Barnes since the start of 2023. Hemenway & Barnes attorney Jennifer Miller was identified in Hur’s final report as a “personal counsel” for the president. The DNC has paid the firm for legal work dating back to 2020, but the payments to Hemenway & Barnes grew larger last year. The party’s payments to lawyers representing Biden, first reported by Axios, do not approach the tens of millions of dollars in donor money that Trump’s political operation has directed to his growing legal bills in recent years. A DNC official on Friday declined to detail how much of the party’s expenditures focused on the Hur investigation but sought to draw a distinction between the legal spending on behalf of Biden and Trump’s pattern of spending. “There is no comparison,” DNC spokesman Alex Floyd said. “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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