President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign paid more than $66,000 to the law firm representing Trump’s former bodyguard Keith Schiller in the Russia investigation, new campaign spending filings show.
Stuart Sears of the law firm Schertler & Onorato law firm represents Schiller, who spoke to the House Intelligence Committee in November of last year. The Trump campaign paid Schertler & Onorato $66,459.12 in January 2018 for “legal consulting.”
The Trump campaign helps pay for the legal fees incurred by several Trump allies and family members, including Donald Trump Jr. and Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney who is now under criminal investigation.
Campaigns are allowed to pay for campaign staffers’ legal fees if the issue relates to their time on the campaign. Schiller told the House Intelligence Committee about Trump’s time in Moscow in 2013, though he may also have faced questions about his time on the Trump campaign, as NBC News noted.
Schiller himself started receiving $15,000 a month from the Republican National Committee for security consulting ahead of the 2020 Republican convention shortly after he left his White House role last year, as CNBC reported in February.
You gotta pay the mouthpieces for everyone in the family, or who could hurt the family.
He’s been using RNC campaign donations for a long time, his own legal bills, fees at the High Tower, etc.
I seriously wonder how many of his little donors will even pay attention to Spankee’s misuse of their contributions. The big ones won’t care, since they got what they want.
Plus I wonder how much Schiller has to kick back to Spankee.
It’s all a big grift.
With 3 years of planning and $500K, that ought to be the most secure convention in history. I’d love to see the itemization of services, description and date.