GOP To Pay $1.6M In Trump Organization Legal Bills

The Washington Post reports:

The Republican Party has agreed to pay up to $1.6 million in legal bills for former president Donald Trump to help him fight investigations into his business practices in New York, according to Republican National Committee members and others briefed on the decision.

The party’s executive committee overwhelmingly approved the payments at a meeting this summer in Nashville, according to four members and others with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting of the executive committee.

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NEW: The Republican Party has pledged to pay ***$1.6 million*** of Trump’s private legal bills, related to investigations of his biz in NY.

That’s 10 times more than was previously known. https://t.co/KFrFVvqn2i

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) December 16, 2021