DNC covers prez’s costs
The Democratic National Committee used campaign funds to cover more than $1.5 million in legal costs incurred by President Biden during the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents — while attacking Donald Trump for using the same mechanism to pay his attorney’s fees, Federal Election Commission records reviewed by The Post show.
The sum was used to pay for lawyers and firms representing the president during special counsel Robert Hur’s 13-month investigation, which wrapped up in February. The payments were first reported by Axios.
On Feb. 8, Hur released a 388page report in which he explained his decision not to pursue charges against the president, arguing that Biden would likely present himself at trial as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” making a conviction unlikely.
During the investigation, the DNC paid $1.05 million to Bob Bauer PLLC, the professional limited liability company belonging to top Biden attorney Bob Bauer, who is married to senior White House communications adviser Anita Dunn.
That money was partly used to bring on heavy-hitting lawyer David Laufman, a former Justice Department official who worked on the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state — as well as the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
But wait, there’s more
The DNC also paid upwards of $100,000 to Boston law firm Hemenway & Barnes, professional home to Biden attorney Jennifer Miller. It’s unclear how much of that money related to Miller’s work on the Biden documents case.
The DNC and the Biden 2024 campaign have vehemently attacked the presumptive GOP nominee for using campaign funds to cover his mounting legal expenses — and tapping grassroots donors to do so.
The 77-year-old’s team has used more than $50 million in political action committee funds, coming from the Save America and Make America Great Again Inc. PACs, to pay down legal bills related to four ongoing criminal cases against Trump.