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The russia scandal legal defense fund. employees, consultants, fund-raisers or volunteers for the trump campaign, the trump transition or the trump administration. that said, you can t get your legal fees paid for by this fund if you are the president himself. or a member of his family. and that means you, too, jared, no spouses. so we found this new legal defense fund, evidence of it, online. we reported it late last week. again, the white house still has not said anything publicly about it. the lawyers who have been working on setting this thing up are also not commenting on it at all. one lawyer for president trump wouldn t even let one of our producers get a question out of her mouth when she called to ask about it last thursday. she said we have a couple of questions to ask you, sir. answer no, you can t ask me anything. good night. [ laughter ] that s the president s lawyer john dowd answering our call. no you cannot ask me anything, ....
Create this fun, it s clear that creating this fund was supposed to remedy that awkwardness. so they were announcing that the president, yeah, the dnc excuse me, the rnc and the trump campaign, these donors have been paying for his legal fees so far but the president will start paying for his own legal fees and he will also pay the legal bills of people who work for him as well. you see the headline there. trump to pay his own legal bills, set up fund to cover staff. so that if that is what they re going to use the fund for, so the president can help defray the legal costs of all of the people involved in trump orbit caught up in the russia scandal, that may sort of help the political problem, the strategic problem of him getting his bills paid for but everybody else having to cover themselves. but there s also an awkwardness to that solution because if the boss is paying your bills, the boss is the president, he s offering to help you with your legal bills, you re a staffer decidi ....
We were first to report here last week on a new russia scandal legal defense fund that s been set up to help people on team trump pay their legal bills in the russia investigation. the first thing to know about this is that it s interesting. the white house still has made no announcement, no formal announcement whatsoever about this russia scandal legal defense fund. they have made no effort to publicize it or let people know this fund is on its way. we found draft papers for this patriot legal defense fund trust, we found the draft papers for it on the web site of the office of government ethics because the lawyers working on setting this thing up went to oge for advice for how to set it up. but you can see in these draft documents the whole fund is to pay for legal expenses that come from dealing with the russia investigation by either the special counsel or committees in congress. the draft documents spell out who is eligible to get help from ....
The boss paying your legal bills this remains an open question. would the president start personally paying the legal bills of staffers in the white house being called to testify potentially for him or against him? seemed like that was what the fund was set up for but sure enough the day after we first reported on the new existence of this fund, cnn reported the president is unlikely to contribute to this fund because it will bankroll bills for multiple officials, some of whom may need to speak to special counsel investigators. so this is a sticky wicket. money for the president? yeah, maybe not. how do we deal with that with the fund? sticky. well, where else could the money come from to fund these legal fees with the russia scandal legal defense fund? on this point, on the point of where the trump legal defense fund is going to get it money, i ....