Democratic donors paid $1.7m in Biden legal fees
By Brandon Drenon
Democratic donors paid at least $1.7m (£1.35m) of US President Joe Biden’s legal fees during the investigation into his handling of classified documents, records show.
The Democratic National Committee paid a firm and a lawyer for the president.
Mr Biden has repeatedly criticised former President Donald Trump, his likely election challenger, for using donor funds to pay his legal fees.
On Friday, Republicans were quick to accuse the president of hypocrisy.
“If these corrupt Democrats didn’t have HYPOCRISY, they’d have NOTHING!” the Republican National Committee said in a statement,
Alex Floyd, a spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement that there was “no comparison” between the DNC’s payments to the president’s lawyers and Mr Trump’s efforts to drive up donations for his legal cases.
“The DNC does not spend a single penny of grassroots donors’ money on legal bills, unlike Donald Trump,” he said.
The money for Mr Biden’s legal team came from the Democratic National Committee’s legal account, according to the Associated Press. It said that account is primarily funded by major donors who have already met contribution limits.
