President Trump’s re-election campaign spent more than $1 million on legal fees from July to the end of September, according to a finance report published by the Federal Election Commission on Sunday.
According to the filing, Trump’s re-election campaign spent $1.1 million on “legal consulting” from the beginning of July to the end of September. The campaign paid Jones Day, a law firm in Washington, $802,185. It also paid two law firms representing Donald Trump Jr. $267,000.
The campaign listed expenditures of $237,924 to Alan Futerfas, a New York-based lawyer Trump Jr. hired in July. The campaign also paid $30,000 to the law firm Williams & Jensen, which is working with Futerfas.
Trump Jr. put together a legal team in the wake of revelations he met with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower last year after he was promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
Trump’s re-election campaign also paid the Trump Corporation $25,885 for “legal consulting,” according to the finance report.
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have spent more than $2.4 million on legal bills since January as investigations from special counsel Robert Mueller and numerous congressional committees on Russian meddling in the 2016 election have expanded their reach.
The RNC and the Trump campaign are helping to cover the cost of legal bills for members of the Trump family and associates. But some former and current campaign officials aren’t receiving help from either entity, which has left some of them struggling to cover legal fees associated with the Russia probe themselves.
Since Mueller took over the investigation into Russian meddling, former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have become the primary subjects of interest. The special counsel has also said he wants to interview numerous former and current White House officials, including communications director Hope Hicks and White House counsel Donald McGahn.
On Friday, members of Mueller’s team spoke with former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus.
