Sauce for the goose is not sauce for Joe Biden

President’s campaign has attacked Trump for using donations to pay his numerous legal bills – but Biden used funds similarly. Review shows that the DNC paid more than $1.5m to Joe Biden’s lawyers during the investigation by special counsel Robert Hur.

Campaign donations to Joe Biden were used to help pay legal bills during the special counsel investigation of his retention of classified information when out of office, Axios reported last week.

Citing a review of campaign finance records and two unnamed sources “familiar with the matter”, the site said filings by the Democratic National Committee showed it paid more than $1.5m to lawyers or firms representing Biden during Robert Hur’s investigation.

The news opens the Biden campaign to charges of hypocrisy, given its own attacks on Donald Trump and his campaign for using donations to pay legal bills.

The use of party funds to cover Biden’s legal bills is not without precedent and falls within the bounds of campaign finance law, but it could cloud Biden’s ability to continue to hammer former President Donald Trump over his far more extensive use of donor funds to cover his legal bills.

The leftist media trashed the RNC for paying Donald Trump's legal fees, but one can imagine they will not be discussing Axios's report that the DNC has been paying Biden's legal fees.

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— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) April 12, 2024