DNC uses political donations to pay Biden's legal fees from special counsel Robert Hur's investigation
abcnews.go.com
Biden's team has criticized Trump paying legal bills from political donations.
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    324·
    9 months ago

    Hurr’s investigation is at least related to Biden being in office… but why don’t we let politicians actually pay for their own legal troubles.

    • Knedliky@discuss.tchncs.de
      643·
      9 months ago

      Step 1: politicians must pay for their own legal troubles

      Step 2: “The Association of Totally Real Concerned Citizens” starts filing lawsuits across the country

      Step 3: any non-billionaire elected to a political office is bankrupted within a year

      Step 4: surprised yellow rodent face

      (Bonus step 5: JB Pritzker becomes president and solves world hunger with deep dish pizza)

      Edit: line breaks

      • halferect@lemmy.world
        29·
        9 months ago

        I think it makes sense to protect members of the party who can’t afford it but the biden family has more than enough to cover their own shit, they can cover the legal fees and the dnc can spend it on winning over voters

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      9 months ago

      but why don’t we let politicians actually pay for their own legal troubles.

      While Biden’s net worth makes the issue less relevant, to make this as a universal standard would make opposition harassment by frivolous legal challenges (as with Robert Hur’s investigation) an effective way not just to stress, distract, and defame any non-rich politician, but also to bankrupt them or drive them out of politics completely.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    229·
    9 months ago

    The DNC said that the money they’ve paid for Biden’s legal purposes isn’t coming from their grassroots donors.

    “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,” DNC spokesperson Alex Floyd said in a statement to ABC News.

    So…

    It’s billionaires, pacs, and corporations paying for Biden’s legal defense?

    This is the danger of our only standard being “better than republicans”. Win or lose, as long as Republicans keep getting worse, so will Democrats.

    • jeffw@lemmy.world
      13·
      9 months ago

      Also, the scale doesn’t compare. Trump’s legal fees are insane, this is a large amount for you and me, but not in political spending

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        612·
        9 months ago

        This is the danger of our only standard being “better than republicans”.

        People don’t want to have the discussion on if any amount is ok, as long as it’s not as bad as republicans, that makes it ok.

    • idiomaddict@feddit.de
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’m not even against public funds being used for this, but what a ridiculous point to make. Money is literally the best example of fungibility: using money from mega donors to pay for defense costs and the money from small donors to pay for rent for campaign offices is not at all different from vice versa.