Wow. Michael Caputo says he can no longer pay for kids' college bc of legal fees (Trumps' are covered by campaign)https://t.co/ygAT6dce6J pic.twitter.com/xvK0P12Wlj
— Matt Mittenthal (@mattmittenthal) July 17, 2017
The Clintons helped cover WH aides' legal bills, will the billionaire president not do same? https://t.co/FgfRpdY4bU https://t.co/0vj3t7pI1n
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) July 18, 2017
From the AP:
As the government’s Russia investigations heat up, a growing cast of lawyers is signing up to defend President Donald Trump and his associates. But the interests of those lawyers — and their clients — don’t always align, adding a new layer of drama and suspicion in a White House already rife with internal rivalries.
Trump himself has both an outside legal team and a new in-house special counsel, Ty Cobb, for Russia-related matters. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, who is also Trump’s son-in-law, has a pair of high-powered attorneys working for him. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., recently hired his own lawyer. And former campaign aides who expect to be caught up in the expanding probes are also shopping for representation — and dealing with sticker-shock over the price tags.
The result is a crowded group of high-priced attorneys bent on defending their own clients, even if it means elbowing those clients’ colleagues…
In Trump’s inner circle, a group long split into factions, the potential for fueling other officials’ legal difficulties could be high.