According to sources within the white house,
Donald Trump has personally offered to pay
for the legal fees of staffers within the
white house who may need to hire lawyers as
part of the ongoing investigation by special
prosecutor Bob Mueller.
What's really interesting about this story
is that first of all, that creates very serious
ethical dilemmas for Donald Trump himself,
but two, that it also gives off a horrible
stench of guilt for Donald Trump himself.
Essentially what's happening here, by offering
to pay these legal fees of these staffers,
Trump is attempting to bribe his own staff
in exchange for their loyalty.
That is where the ethical dilemma comes in
because if any of these people have dirt on
Donald Trump that they would like to share
with the investigators or prosecutors, they
are gonna be far less likely to do that if
they know that Donald Trump is the guy footing
their legal bills.
Furthermore, if Donald Trump has in fact offered
to pay your legal bills, I would suggest that
you ask for the money upfront, because as
we all know Donald Trump not only has a history
of not paying his own legal bills but he also
has a history of not paying really any bills
that we know of.
Right now the republican national committee
and the Donald Trump campaign for 2020 are
actually footing most of the legal bills both
for the president and for Donald Trump Junior.
So far they've shelled out well over $400,000
just in legal fees for those two Trumps.
Trump has raised a couple of million dollars
for his 2020 reelection campaign, most of
which actually according to reports has come
from small donors, but again, he's not using
that money to run for president in 2020, he's
using that money to pay his legal fees.
If any of the staffers out there are actually
thinking that Donald Trump is going to be
paying their legal bills, they are gonna have
to figure out whether or not they need to
go submit receipts to the president, or if
there is gonna be some kind of legal defense
fund set up for these staffers funded by Trump
so that they can all just take out of one
big pool, but again, does it seem that like
the kind of thing that would be necessarily
normal if Donald Trump wasn't trying to bribe
his staff?
Which to me is exactly what the story is all
about.
This is Donald Trump's attempt to buy the
loyalty of his staffers by promising to pay
their legal bills.
And whether or not they are loyal to him in
any questioning that takes place, I seriously
doubt that Donald Trump is actually going
to follow through with this and foot the legal
bills for any members of his staff considering
the fact that he's technically not even paying
his own legal bills.
His donors are doing that.
The republican national committee is doing
that.
When Donald Trump comes out and says, "Don't
worry, I've got you covered on this."
Rest assured that either the bills won't be
paid or they are gonna be paid by some other
group that isn't Donald Trump.
