Trump has set up a legal defense fund for his White House that gives Russians and other illegal donors the ability to cover his legal fees.
“The 49-page charter is a lush garden of legal formalities that conceal the fund’s minimal consideration of ethical safeguards. No firewall prevents the president from bending the manager’s ear about who should or shouldn’t receive the fund’s largesse. Nor is the manager required to seek any guidance from ethics officials to determine if donations come from prohibited sources.”, Walter Shaub wrote in the Los Angeles Times.
The fund, which will reimburse legal fees stemming from the Russia investigations, represents a radical and dangerous departure from established practice for government-employee legal defense funds. It's formulated under, of all things, an IRS designation for political organizations. Even its name, the Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust, echoes the tribal politics of our time. The name may suggest something more sinister still, that the cash is for "patriots" loyal to the president.
It seems to me that such fund would be completely unethical and undermines all of our legal and ethical standards.
Source:
Trump Starts A Legal Defense Fund So That Russians Can Cover His White House Legal Fees
By Sarah Jones on Fri, Feb 9th, 2018 at 12:57 pm
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/02/09/trump-white-house.html
Trump's Ethics Office has blessed an unethical legal defense fund for the president's associates
By WALTER SHAUB
FEB 09, 2018 | 4:05 AM
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shaub-patriot-fund-20180209-story.html
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This new Trump fund, however, can go to any of the White House staffers, campaign workers or other Trump associates who get caught up in the Russia investigations.
The control language of this fund removes any transparency how pay out decisions are made, essentially making it a black box and letting Trump pay off whomever he wants.
That is completely unacceptable to have such a legal technicality, allowing to fund a major cover up.
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https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/All Documents/C84BE191420FD2A585258227004EFCC2/$FILE/Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust, LLC.pdf?open
I think that jumping from merits of setting up this fund to accusing Trump of corruption and purposeful intent to take Russia payoffs is way of a stretch.
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