President Trump is paying his own legal bills related to the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election after months of the Republican National Committee (RNC) covering the costs, Reuters reported Friday.
The legal bills are for Trump’s personal lawyers, who are helping the president navigate the investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as whether Trump obstructed justice by firing FBI Director James Comey earlier this year.
John Dowd, a defense lawyer for Trump, told Reuters that the president wants to make the party “even.”
Trump’s team and the RNC have, at times, seized on the Russia investigation and surrounding controversy to raise money, sending out fundraising pleas amid developments in the case. Earlier this year, the campaign saw a surge in donations the same day that Robert Mueller was appointed to lead the criminal investigation into Moscow’s election meddling.
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