Tapper: People Donating to the Trump Campaign Will Be Surprised They’re Paying Trump Jr.’s Legal Bills

‘Is that an acknowledgment that the meeting with the Russian lawyer that he thought was with the Russian government was official campaign business?’

TAPPER: So, the Trump campaign, we learned this week, paid $50,000 to Donald Trump Jr.'s lawyer. They paid this a day after one the CNN reporters that was working on the story called to say, what is there -- what can you tell us about this meeting?

Is that an acknowledgment that the meeting with the Russian lawyer that he thought was with the Russian government was official campaign business, the fact that the Trump campaign paid 50 grand to Trump Jr.'s attorney?

SEKULOW: Well, look, I'm not involved in the discussions with the lawyers on who paid what entity, and I certainly don't represent Donald Trump Jr. 

But, look, in a situation like this, this is not an unusual situation where the individual that is being questioned, or subject to questioning, Donald Trump Jr., retains counsel. It involved an incident that involved an e-mail campaign and a meeting when he was working, doing work for the campaign, so that to me is not an unusual scenario or an unusual setup at all.

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SEKULOW: But I -- look, I don't know the final, final determination of who's paying what bills to whom. 

I mean, I think that's still in process.

TAPPER: I think a lot of people who give money to the Trump campaign will be surprised that they're paying for the legal bills for Donald Trump Jr.

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