About 25% of Trump’s Re-election Spending Continues to Go to Lawyers

The following article by Kenneth P. Vogel and Rachel Shorey was posted on the New York Times website February 1, 2018:

A Trump rally in December in Pensacola, Fla. The president’s re-election campaign entered the year with $32.3 million in the bank, reflecting an aggressive start to re-election fund-raising. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election campaign raised $15.2 million in the last three months of last year, and spent $1.2 million on legal fees — with much of the cash going to law firms responding to investigations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election — according to campaign finance reports.

The reports, filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday evening, indicate that Mr. Trump’s campaign and two fund-raising committees it formed with the Republican National Committee — Trump Victory and Trump Make America Great Again — entered this year with $32.3 million in the bank. Continue reading “About 25% of Trump’s Re-election Spending Continues to Go to Lawyers”