24Feb 2023 by Charles E. Price
Trump leadership PAC spent more than $16 million on legal services in 2022

Trump leadership PAC spent more than $16 million on legal services in 2022

LEGAL
CNN — Donald Trump's leadership PAC spent more than $16 million on legal services in 2022, according to a tally of the Save America PAC distributions through the end of December. The number represented a massive set of bills from lawyers at a time when the former president faced multiple criminal inquiries, lawsuits and other challenges. The money appears to be largely geared toward firms representing Trump and his business and family interests. The disbursement shows that Save America PAC paid more than $12.5 million to 16 law firms that have aided in his representation, either in the criminal matters or other legal disputes, according to CNN's review of the data and additional reporting. Some of those law firms also represent others who've been sought out as subjects in the…
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02Aug 2022 by Charles E. Price

Kushner recounts Jeff Sessions’ attempts to block Trump’s landmark criminal justice reform bill

LAW
In his upcoming book, "Breaking History: A White House Memoir," Kushner details several efforts by Sessions to stymie his efforts to amass an unlikely coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers -- and to dissuade then-President Donald Trump from backing them.In one instance, Kushner writes that Sessions' team at the Justice Department successfully thwarted an April 2018 committee markup of the legislation by recommending last-minute changes to the legislation that amounted to "poison pills" and which Kushner at the time described as "ridiculous " and in "bad faith." Sessions' feuds with Kushner over the reform effort and his numerous attempts to block the process were thoroughly reported at the time.Through an associate, Sessions declined to comment on Kushner's book. Amid Sessions' efforts to block the legislation and try to dissuade conservatives…
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