White House CounselIncumbent Dana Remus since January 20, 2021Formation1943First holderSamuel Rosenman
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Donald TrumpThe richest president in history is believed to be Donald Trump, who is often considered the first billionaire president.
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The Magnitsky Act. The latest Trump associate to hire a lawyer is Donald Trump Jr. Based on his own emails and interviews, he eagerly attended a meeting in 2016 with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who he believed had opposition research on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
When Hillary Clinton ran for Senate in 2000, as her husband was winding down his presidency, her personal financial disclosure showed they owed lawyers somewhere between $2.3 million and $10.6 million. Disclosures in later years indicated the Clintons paid up.
Trump spoke up for his son in Paris last week. "I have a son who's a great young man," the president said. "He's a fine person. He took a meeting with a lawyer from Russia. It lasted a very short period. And nothing came of the meeting."
While the White House lawyers are paid government salaries, by taxpayers, the Trump White House has not indicated how much the private lawyers are being paid, or by whom. This kind of legal representation doesn't come cheap.
President Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow, center, stands with his son, Jordan Sekulow, left, and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, in the Great Hall of the White House on Jan 28. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Most of the trust money flowed to two Washington law firms: Williams & Connolly and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
President Trump’s legal team resumed its defense presentation on Jan. 27 by criticizing the basis of the House’s impeachment inquiry. (The Washington Post)
Donors to the RNC and Trump’s reelection campaign have already covered millions of dollars in attorney fees stemming from the president’s other legal travails: former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, court battles over the president’s tax returns, and a now-withdrawn defamation lawsuit filed by a former campaign staffer.
Starr declined to talk about his legal fees or to comment for this story. Ray, Herschmann and Raskin did not return messages seeking comment.
Trump’s campaign committee is not directly paying impeachment-related legal bills, according to a campaign official, although the campaign does transfer money to the RNC from time to time. Story continues below advertisement.
Donald Trump has fallen out with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and is refusing to pay the former New York mayor’s legal bills, it was reported, with the president feeling abandoned and frustrated during his last days in office.
Those who have reportedly failed to step up include Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, and his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, responsible for indulging Trump’s belief that the election was rigged.
The apparent breach with Giuliani – one of Trump’s most loyal and sycophantic supporters – has contributed to the president’s sense of isolation and betrayal, aides have suggested.
Trump is reportedly more isolated than ever. The White House is sparsely staffed, and those who do go to work there deliberately avoid the Oval Office, the Post reported.
Trump is reportedly unhappy that members of his inner circle have failed to defend him following last week’s deadly attack on the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters. Many have been silent following Wednesday’s vote in the House of Representatives to impeach Trump for a second time.
The White House is sparsely staffed, and those who do go to work there deliberately avoid the Oval Office, the Post reported. The rift with the president may sink Guiliani’s lingering hopes of receiving a presidential pardon.
According to the Washington Post, relations between Trump and Giuliani have dramatically cooled. Trump has instructed his aides not to pay Giuliani’s outstanding fees. The president is reportedly offended by Giuliani’s demand for $20,000 a day – a figure the lawyer denies, but which is apparently in writing. White House officials have even been ...
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While in office, the U.S. president receives a salary of $400,000 a year and a $50,000 expense account. Congress added the expense account in 1949. This pays for the president's personal expenses, such as food and dry cleaning. 1 
1789: The president's salary was $25,000. It would be worth around $740,000 in 2020.
The salaries of ex-presidents are set by the Former Presidents Act. The amount is equivalent to the salary of the head of an executive department. The other costs vary according to each president's needs. 17 
The Founding Fathers wanted to protect even wealthy presidents from misfortune that could tempt them to take bribes. The salary may have also been designed to ensure that a lack of personal wealth would not prohibit a president-elect from taking office. Four presidents refused a salary.
The Former Presidents Act provides $1 million a year for security and travel expenses if they didn't receive Secret Service protection. Former first spouses receive $500,000 a year for security and travel purposes if they didn't receive Secret Service protection. 17 .
The salary may have also been designed to ensure that a lack of personal wealth would not prohibit a president-elect from taking office.
Ex-Vice Presidents and their families are entitled to Secret Service protection for six months after leaving office, and temporarily any time afterward if warranted. 14 .
“The hourly rate for President Trump’s attorney is $1,500 per hour,” the story says, “but with the taxpayers covering the cost, the law firm is billing the taxpayers $10,000 per hour, a 1500% increase.”.
It’s true that Trump hired Marc Kasowitz to lead a team of private lawyers as a special counsel investigates possible collusion between members of Trump’s campaign and Russian officials who sought to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
President Bill Clinton sought to recover $3.5 million in legal fees from the Whitewater investigation, but was only reimbursed $85,312. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush also were each reimbursed for legal fees in the Iran-Contra investigation.
In fact, the Washington Post reported that Trump can’t use federal funds to pay Kasowitz for any work that he does. “The White House did not respond this week to requests for comment about how Trump would pay for his outside legal team, the cost of which cannot be covered by the federal government,” the Post wrote on May 23.