“Trump’s campaign machine is bleeding cash for legal expenses,” Reuters reports. From interviews and a review of court records and campaign finance reports, Reuters has identified 13 potential witnesses or co-defendants who were represented by law firms that received payments from Trump’s Save America super PAC. Those payments were disclosed in the finance reports as general payments to entities rather than specific compensation to individuals.
Joe Biden is wary of a legal reckoning against his predecessor, but to let Trump go would be to sanction future corruption.
The Perils of Not Prosecuting Trump | The Nation
When it was revealed last year that taxpayers had shelled out more than $825 million on lawyers in 2016-17, Attorney-General Christian Porter said he was “taking a particular interest in the expenditure of funds on legal services, applying very close scrutiny to each and every application that comes before me for approval.”
That being the case, one wonders how he can justify approving over $288,000 in legal costs (so far) for Michaelia Cash when all she has done is provide the police with a copy of Hansard and then turn up for one day in court to say “refer to what I said in Hansard”.
Cash is not facing any charges, she was merely a witness who had nothing to say. So why does she need a defence team?
via The staggering cost of defending incompetence – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Smoking joe spent more on legal fees than he was awarded when his feelings were bruised,
olddogthoughts 