campaign. fifth, elizabeth frelogger, who clerked for liberal supreme court justices, ginsburg and kagen, contributed to both the obama and clinton campaigns, and zero to trump. next, james quarles. he s contributed to the democratic presidential campaigns of dukakis, kerry, obama, and hillary clinton, and gore, as well. he did contribute to former congressman chaffetz and senator allen, but he contributed over $20,000 to democratic house and senate candidates. and again, gave zero to trump. seventh, gen jeannie rhee, she actually represented, as praefspraefs previously mentioned, hillary clinton in several lawsuits. contributed $5,400 to the clinton campaign, and zero to the trump campaign. eighth, brandon van grak contributed to act blue, the fund-raising outfit organized to elect democratic congressional candidates.
james 2008, 2300 to president obama. 200015, chuck schumer got 1500 bucks. hillary clinton almost $3,000. and james quarles. so, like you said e caesar s wife reference, i get it. in the big picture when when it comes to law i worry about robert mueller and james comey already through the fire together. you know the animus james comey has he made it clear he thinks the president is a liar. how could mueller, sterling reputation be dispassionate? he can t. especially since he would be called as the first witness by the president if there were a case having him testify in front of congress. the president had the right to fire him. the president had the right to make him stop the investigation. the other witness for the president, of course, would be rothenstein who wrote the memo, saying you should fire comey. so this is becoming very political. when you have the justice department itself being on both sides.
the president considering firing bob mueller? well, certainly what we ve heard is ann coulter and newt gingrich jumping into the public space and saying he should be fired. something is going on behind the scenes. seems like a coordinated effort by president s allies to raise concerns that mueller isn t the right person, someone who everyone respects. i think the president is very concerned about having such a competent, seasoned, respected investigator on the case. one of the things we ve heard, the criticism of bob mueller, is that there are three attorneys on the team that donated to democrats over the past more than 20 years. here are the this is from the s.e.c. records. so as you can see, there s one, james quarles who donated to republicans but mostly democrats. we don t know about the other
donations. james quarles, he started as an assistant special prosecutor in water tlt ga watergate. he donated more than $30,000 to democrats. but as you will note, he recently he has forked over $2700 to republican candidates. jeannie rhee maxed out. the others, they stopped donating in 2008 and 2006 respectively. didn t donate this election cycle. we did reach out to a spokesman for robert mueller. he had no comment when cnn asked about the donations and any criticism it might invite that there s bias in this investigation. what s been reaction among president trump s allies? former house speaker newt gingrich, he has come out forcefully on this. he tweeted early this morning. look at this.
the controversy involves the team he assembled. what about it? what we re learning is that members of the legal team known to have been hired by special counsel robert mueller to handle the russia investigation, they have given political donations almost exclusively to democrats. that s according to a cnn analysis of the federal election commission records. here is the breakdown. more than half of the nearly $60,000 in donations, it came from 1 lawyer, james quarles. you can see there. more than half of that amount was donated before the 2016 election. two of the lawyers gave the maximum $2700 donation to hillary clinton last year. we should note there was no record of special counsel robert mueller himself making any donations. james quarles, he started as an assistant special prosecutor in watergate. he donated more than $30,000 to democrats, including hillary clinton s last campaign and barack obama s campaign in recent years. but as you will note, he