Donald Trump's campaign fund has spent $50K in defending Donald Trump Jr.

Remember how Donald Trump started asking for campaign money for his 2020 reelection shortly after he took office? Well, according to The Daily Beast, Trump's campaign fund has spent $50,000 dollars in legal fees to defend Donald Trump Junior, who is now in the middle of the Russia-gate scandal. The spending coincided with very first revelation of the emails that led to the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and with Russian lawyer Natalia Vaselnitskaya.

From the Daily Beast article:

About two weeks before the release of emails showing Donald Trump Jr. seeking opposition research from attorneys representing the Russian government, his father’s reelection campaign began paying the law firm now representing Trump Jr. in the ensuing political and legal fallout.

A new filing with the Federal Election Commission shows that President Trump’s reelection campaign paid $50,000 to the law offices of Alan Futerfas on June 26. That was around the time, Yahoo News reports, that the president’s legal team learned of a June 2016 email exchange in which Trump Jr., through an associate, solicited damaging information about 2016 election rival Hillary Clinton.

Now, consider the following: Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump have claimed that meeting was insignificant and irrelevant. But if the meeting was so insignificant, why spend $50,000 in a lawyer for Donald Trump Jr.?

That suggests there was more than something shady with the meeting and, instead, something downright illegal. Otherwise, why hire an expensive lawyer?