by Frank Holmes, reporter
Joe Biden has never been known as a model of integrity, but the latest revelations about his campaign’s financial shenanigans have shocked political insiders.
Biden and the Democratic Party tore former President Donald Trump to shreds after learning that the Republican National Committee (RNC) paid some of his legal bills.
Every Republican fundraiser is just “a handful of billionaires figuring out how to pay his legal bills,” while the Democrats have “millions of grassroots donors who are powering our campaign,” sneered Rob Flaherty, a Biden deputy campaign manager.
Forget the fact that it made political sense for the GOP to pay Trump’s legal bills, since he ran up $100 million in lawyers’ fees while staving off all the politically motivated prosecutions launched by Biden and his cronies specifically to hurt the Trump campaign during an election year.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) promised its donors it would never do such a thing.
“Every single time you give to the campaign, we’re going straight to talk to voters,” said Biden’s campaign finance chairperson, Rufus Gifford, on the Left’s favorite TV network, MSNBC. “We are not spending money on legal bills or hawking gold sneakers.”
“Every single dime that you give the Biden-Harris election campaign, we spend talking to voters,” the Democrat promised.
Well, the Democrats lied.
Campaign finance documents show the DNC paid around $2 million to pay for Biden’s legal fees.
That’s just for one of his investigations; the party may have shelled out more for the president or other members of the Biden family.
Two people close to the White House told Axios that the minute Special Prosecutor Robert Hur began investigating Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified material, the DNC started writing checks.
The probe started last January. By July, the DNC went from paying Hemenway & Barnes $15,000 a month to paying lawyers an incredible $100,000 a month.
It’s hard to make that kind of monthly salary without being one of Joe Biden’s kids on an international oil advisory firm.
The firm pulled in $900,000 in fees—and that doesn’t count $1.05 million paid to another law firm!
That one-two punch of Democratic hypocrisy really packed a wallop.
“POT, MEET KETTLE,” an official social media account belonging to the Republican National Committee (RNC).
POT, MEET KETTLE: DNC covered Biden legal bills in special counsel probe https://t.co/FyKDPhUOyX
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 12, 2024
“The decision to cover the legal bills isn’t an issue, as long as it’s disclosed. Trump and the RNC disclosed that arrangement years ago, and Trump PACs did the same,” said conservative commentator Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com. “The DNC has tried to hide it from their donors while criticizing their opponents for exactly what they themselves have been doing. That’s not just projection, but hypocrisy.”
The Democratic Party—which has never been known for its ability to show embarrassment—claimed its use of donors’ funds to pay its candidate’s legal bills is nothing like the the apples-to-apples comparison with the Republican Party’s.
“There is no comparison—the DNC does not spend a single penny of grassroots donors’ money on legal bills—unlike Donald Trump, who actively solicits legal fees from his supporters and has drawn down every bank account he can get his hands on, like a personal piggy bank,” Alex Floyd, a spokesman for the DNC, told the Daily Caller.
But that answer sounded so dodgy, even The New York Times didn’t buy it.
“Officials with the Biden campaign and the D.N.C. have for nearly a year made no distinction between the organizations when boasting about their fund-raising” according to the NYT.
Another issue is who cashed in on all that money: The DNC checks tie Joe Biden to the Deep State—and even to someone who praised the founding leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
Most of the Democrats’ money went to pay for the services of a lawyer named David Laufman. He’s a former Deep State operative who, as a Justice Department employee, oversaw the DOJ’s investigations into Hillary Clinton’s homebrew e-mail server and “Russian interference” in the 2016 election.
No charges were ever filed in either case, even though the evidence indicated Clinton was guilty.
Back then, Laufman was a government lawyer just seeking impartial “justice”; now he works openly for the Democratic Party.
How Swampy can you get?
Actually, things get worse.
“About $1.05 million was paid between July 2023 and February 2024 to Bob Bauer PLLC, the professional limited liability company for Biden’s lead attorney,” according to Axios.
Bauer is one of the swampiest lawyers in D.C.—a former legal counsel to every Democratic president since Bill Clinton, as well as candidates Bill Bradley and John Kerry.
He was Barack Obama’s personal lawyer before he became president, too.
But Bauer isn’t Biden’s only problem.
When Dunn worked in the Obama-Biden administration, she named Mao Zedong as one of her two “favorite political philosophers.”
Not only did the Democrats shade the truth about whether they paid Biden’s legal fees, “Come to find out, the DNC paid millions to cover Biden’s legal bills to a law firm run by the husband of top White House staffer Anita Dunn,” said Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokeswoman. “Joe Biden and the Democrats entire campaign against President Trump is based upon lies and hypocrisy.”
Lies, hypocrisy, Deep State cronyism, and just a dash of Communism.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”