President Donald Trump’s campaign organization spent $1.6 million on legal fees in the three-month period of July through September, the most it has paid for such expenses in any quarter, a new filing with the Federal Election Commission shows, Politico reported on Tuesday.
The payments come as Trump’s reelection organization has battled lawsuits connected to the 2016 campaign and helped take care of legal fees for staffers who are part of probes related to Russia’s interference in those elections.
The vast bulk of the campaign’s legal fees during the quarter, about $1.3 million, went to the Jones Day law firm, according to The National Law Journal.
This was a sharp rise in payments to the firm, which totaled only some $525,000 in the previous six months.
After Jones Day, the highest-paid firm in the latest filing was Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, which received $173,000 during the quarter. The law firm was hired by former Trump campaign aide Corey Lewandowski in connection to the Russia probe.
Since Trump filed to launch his 2020 reelection bid, the campaign's spending on legal expenses stands at a total of $5.9 million.
The Trump organization — which includes the campaign and two joint fundraising committees run by the campaign and the Republican National Committee — raised $18 million during the third quarter.
The campaign spent $7.7 million, a fifth on legal expenses, and ended the quarter with $35 million on hand, part of a war chest that Trump has been building since soon after he became president.
The campaign also gave out $214,000 in donations during the quarter to more than 100 congressional candidates running for reelection, the filings show.
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