Trump paying part of WH staff legal bills.
 

President Trump plans to spend at least $430,000 of his personal funds to help cover the mounting legal costs incurred by White House staff and campaign aides related to the ongoing investigations of Russian meddling in last year’s election, a White House official said.

“A potential witness or target of an investigation (and boss of investigators) paying for legal fees of other potential witnesses or targets?” - Walter Shaub, the former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, suggested on Twitter that it is rife with potential conflicts.

The Republican party is covering the mounting legal costs for Donald Trump Jr., spending nearly $200,000 on lawyers who helped him prepare for testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Those payments included more than $166,000 to attorney Alan Futerfas.