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By William Vaillancourt

Updated Oct 09, 2026 10:46AM EDT—Published Oct 09, 2026

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ daughter has been pictured at a Bosnian gun range beside an ally of Vladimir Putin.

Katie Wiles traveled to the semi-autonomous region of Republika Srpska, where she met with interior minister Željko Budimir, according to an image shared by conservative Albanian-American activist Evi Kokalari and verified by CBS News.

The image, in which Wiles holds a rifle, appears to be a screenshot of one of Wiles’ Instagram Stories. Wiles captioned it “mostly work + some serious fun!” and added the Republika Srpska handle. Kokalari claimed the picture was taken in August.

Katie Wiles holds a rifle next to Željko Budimir, the interior minister of the semi-autonomous Republika Srpska administration.

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Budimir (left) and Dodik (second from left) attend a meeting with Putin at the Kremlin in April 2025.

In December 2025, Putin awarded Budimir the Pushkin Medal for strengthening ties between Serbs and Russians. The two had previously met at the Kremlin that April.

Republika Srpska is led by 67-year-old Milorad Dodik, the region’s former president. Though removed from office last year for failing to adhere to Bosnia’s 1995 peace accords, Dodik retains considerable influence. He has formed a close connection to Russian dictator Putin, and, according to foreign agent registration (FARA) filings seen by CBS, paid U.S.-based lobbying firms to rub elbows with Trump associates.

Two top outside advisers to Trump, Chris LaCivita and James Blair, visited Bosnia and Herzegovina last week to help Dodik’s party campaign, the New York Times reported

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Katie Wiles is a partner at D.C.-based political lobbying firm Continental Strategy, which earlier this year registered to lobby for the region she visited. A spokesperson told CBS that Wiles spent two days in Republika Srpska in mid-August “with a U.S.-based company who was invited to do a feasibility study in the region.”

“Wiles provides strategic communications support to this U.S. company and has done so for over two years,” the spokesperson added. “Wiles has not spoken with any United States Government official regarding Srpska.”

Putin meets with Dodik at the Kremlin in April, 2025.

The company’s name is unclear. Continental Strategies did not immediately respond to CBS or the Daily Beast when asked

Katie Wiles’ bio on the firm’s site appears to have been taken down.

A White House official told the Daily Beast that Susie Wiles, 69, “does not discuss work matters with her daughters.” Wiles’ other daughter, Caroline, is also a consultant. Caroline worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and transition team, and was aiming to land a role in the White House until she reportedly failed an FBI background check, forcing her to find another job in the Trump administration.The White House says Susie Wiles does not discuss work matters with her two daughters, who are in the consulting business.

Despite the White House’s claim that Susie and Katie Wiles don’t disclose their work to each other, they have interacted with similar types of people from the Balkans.

Last month, according to CBS, Susie Wiles met with Dodik ally Željka Cvijanović, a former president of Republika Srpska and a current member of the three-person presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Katie Wiles did not set it up, a White House official told the network. Instead, it was Alejandro Garcia, who is also a partner at Continental Strategies.

The firm’s spokesperson told CBS that Garcia, a former deputy political director for Trump’s 2024 campaign, attended election day in Bosnia—Oct. 4—“but no other member of the team was present.”

“Garcia is the sole person who has interacted with the United States government regarding Srpska, and his contacts have all been meticulously tracked to be reported in accordance with FARA requirements,” the spokesperson said.

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Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s decision to lift sanctions against Dodik has drawn scrutiny. House Democrats say the administration did so to help AAFS Infrastructure & Energy, a U.S.-incorporated company run by Joseph Flynn, the brother of Trump ally Michael Flynn, and Jesse Binnall, a former personal attorney to Trump. After the sanctions were removed, Dodik’s party, which had opposed the company’s proposed gas pipeline in the region, changed course and passed legislation clearing the way for the over $1.5 billion project.

A White House official told CBS that the administration lifted sanctions to prevent regional instability.

“This is yet another example of President Trump’s pragmatic, farseeing foreign policy that has prevented disasters on perennial issues that his predecessors so often stumbled into,” they said.

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Here Are 8 Lawyers in the Thick of Trump’s Election Fight

Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / November 18, 2020

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, one of the Trump campaign's lawyers, talks to reporters Nov. 5 alongside Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski, right, outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. (Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images)

As postelection litigation rages in multiple battleground states, lawyers representing President Donald Trump include big and small names.

Several lawyers withdrew after reporting pressure from anti-Trump activists that included posting the lawyers’ names and contact information on social media. Twitter removed such information posted on its platform.

Of the lawyers who remain, some are litigating in court while others largely play a media role. Here are eight of them:

Justin R. Clark

Interestingly enough, Justin Clark began a career in politics working for one of the last two candidates—a Democrat—caught up in a contested presidential election, then-Vice President Al Gore.

Clark did accounting work for Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, NPR reported, on his path to taking the role of deputy campaign manager and senior counsel on the Trump 2020 reelection campaign.

Clark, 45, grew up as a centrist Democrat in Connecticut. Another centrist, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., was Gore’s vice presidential pick in 2000.

Clark later evolved into a Republican, and in 2010 and 2014 he managed the unsuccessful Connecticut gubernatorial campaigns of GOP nominee Tom Foley.

He was also political director of pro-wrestling executive Linda McMahon’s failed U.S. Senate race in Connecticut in 2012.

In 2018, Politico put Clark on its “Power List.”

Clark was deputy national political director for Trump’s 2016 campaign, then became director of the Office of Public Liaison in the White House after the New York developer was elected president.

He worked with presidential adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner on criminal justice reform and with presidential adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump on apprenticeships and workforce development. Clark transitioned to the reelection campaign in late 2018.

Marc A. Scaringi

Marc Scaringi, a lawyer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is leading the Trump campaign’s legal effort in that state. Scaringi, 51, focuses his practice on business and corporate law and has about 20 years of experience.

Scaringi worked on then-Rep. Rick Santorum’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. After Santorum won in 1994, Scaringi became his legislative correspondent in Washington.

Scaringi returned to Pennsylvania to work for Mike Fisher’s campaign for state attorney general, and served as an executive assistant to Fisher as attorney general from 1997 to 2001.

While still working for the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, he attended Widener University Delaware Law School in 2001.

In 2016, Scaringi was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He writes a biweekly column for The Patriot-News/PennLive and was a talk radio host in Harrisburg.

According to his law firm’s website, Scaringi’s specialties include contracts, commercial lease agreements, employer/employee relations, employment law, administrative law, federal and state employment and business regulatory matters, and human resources. He also is involved in real estate issues.

Scaringi is a member of the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law. He graduated Georgetown University in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in history. He received his law degree from Widener University Delaware Law School in 2001.

3. Jesse R. Binnall

“Donald Trump won … after you account for the fraud and irregularities that occurred,” Jesse Binnall, who is representing the Trump campaign in Nevada, said Tuesday.

Binnall, 41, normally practices law in Alexandria, Virginia,outside Washington, and is experienced in political cases. But he also handles business and commercial litigation, First Amendment and civil rights disputes, white-collar criminal defense, and defamation suits.

He is a partner at Harvey & Binnall PLLC and president of Parliamentary Strategies, which the law firm owns. The company provides clients such as professional associations, political parties, candidates, with procedures for meetings, bylaw drafting, and interpretation.

Binnall is president of the Alumni Association for the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, according to his bio at the Republican National Lawyers Association.

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4. Sidney Powell

Sidney Powell made news recently by calling out potential problems with voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems and suggesting that enough evidence will emerge to overturn election results in several states.

Powell, 65, became a public figure by representing Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

Powell was a federal prosecutor from 1978 through 1988, serving as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas. In the Western District, she helped win the conviction of organized crime leader Jimmy Chagra for continuing criminal enterprises.

Powell became chief of the appellate sections for both court districts and represented the federal government in about 350 appeals cases. She went on to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Powell is now a defense attorney who practices federal appeals cases in the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Circuits, as well as before the Supreme Court, according to her website. She represented Merrill Lynch executives in the Enron Corp. litigation.

Powell was president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in 2001 and 2002.

She received her law degree from University of North Carolina School of Law after attending UNC as an undergraduate.

Powell became an outspoken critic of the Justice Department, writing the book “License to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice,” published in 2014.

5. William S. Consovoy

William Consovoy, who has experience arguing before the Supreme Court, represented Trump in recent New York state court cases.

Consovoy, 46, works primarily on appellate cases. He has been involved in cases on constitutional issues, interpretation and enforcement of federal statutes, administrative law, civil rights disputes, among others.

Two recent cases he argued before the Supreme Court were Spokeo Inc. v. Robins and Evenwel v. Abbott.

Consovoy, a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, also clerked for Judge Edith H. Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and for the 17th Judicial Circuit of Virginia.

In 2013, the legal news service Law360 named Consovoy a “rising star” in appellate law.

In 2011, he became co-director of the Supreme Court Clinic at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he also is co-director of the school’s Administrative Law Clinic.

Consovoy received his bachelor’s degree from Monmouth University and hislaw degree from George Mason University School of Law.

6. Pam Bondi

Pam Bondi is a former two-term Florida attorney general, elected in 2010 and again in 2014.

Bondi, 55, already familiar to viewers of Fox News Channel, became a familiar figure early in 2020 as one of Trump’s lawyers during his Senate impeachment trial.

She made strong arguments for the president on the Senate floor, but is largely a spokesperson for legal arguments, according to The Washington Post.

Bondi gained national prominence while Florida’s attorney general as one of the key Republican state attorneys general who sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The Supreme Court upheld the law in 2012.

Also as Florida attorney general, Bondi filed litigation as part of the national opioid crisis. She led a legal fight in the national mortgage settlement case, and sued BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, settling for more than $2 billion in economic relief for Florida.

Bondi is a member of the firm Ballard Partners, where she heads its corporate regulatory compliance practice, according to the Federalist Society. In this position, she helps Fortune 500 companies implement policies to address matters such as human trafficking, opioid abuse, and personal data privacy.

7. Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani has become a controversial figure as Trump’s personal lawyer and a central player in the impeachment controversy because of his investigations in Ukraine.

That’s a significant change from Giuliani’s status as national hero as New York mayor during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, adding to a reputation as a tough-on-crime executive and prosecutor.

Giuliani, 76, primarily serves the president as a media spokesman rather than a litigator, according to The Washington Post. Before serving as mayor, though, he had a distinguished legal career as a federal prosecutor.

Giuliani, a native of New York, went to work for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington in 1973; he was appointed the attorney in charge of police corruption cases resulting from the high-profile Knapp Commission.

He returned to New York in 1977 to go into private practice, but in 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed him as associate attorney general, the No. 3 position in the Justice Department.

In 1983, Reagan appointed Giuliani as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. In this role, he gained national prominence for taking on drug dealers and the Mafia. He scored 4,152 convictions, of which only 25 were reversed on appeal.

8.Jay Sekulow

Jay Sekulow became a prominent public face in defending Trump as his personal lawyer during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and during the Senate impeachment trial.

Sekulow, 64, is chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative legal group. He has argued 12 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, many of them religious liberty cases.

One case was about allowing public school students to voluntarily belong to Bible clubs at school.

More recently, in the case Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, he won a unanimous ruling from the high court to allow governments to accept permanent monuments, such as Ten Commandments monuments, in public parks.

Sekulow founded the European Centre for Law and Justice based in Strasbourg, France, the seat of the European Court of Human Rights. He opened ECLJ offices in France, Russia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and Israel.

Legal Times named Sekulow to a list called “The 90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Last 30 Years.” Time magazine put him on its list of the “25 Most Influential Evangelicals.”

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Top Trump Lawyer Is a Longtime Tax Deadbeat

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Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall has owed the IRS more than $100,000 for years.

Roger Sollenberger

Political Reporter

Published May. 06, 2022

Former President Donald Trump and his top election-fraud lawyer, Jesse Binnall, have a number of things in common—they both falsely believe the election was stolen, they hobnob with some of the right’s most unhinged conspiracy theorists, and they routinely complain that they’re the focus of a witch hunt. But another similarity has flown under the radar: Both men avoid paying taxes.

According to IRS records, Binnall owes the U.S. government for unpaid taxes dating back to 2010. The IRS filed a $139,242 lien against Binnall almost four years ago—in August 2018— and it covers unpaid amounts every tax year from 2010 to 2015. Records on file with the City of Alexandria, VA, show that, as of May 5, Binnall has not paid off the lien.

Leslie Levin, an expert in the legal profession at the University of Connecticut School of Law, told The Daily Beast that if Binnall willfully failed to file, he would be breaking the law and possibly violating legal ethics rules.

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“It depends on why the lien was levied and why he hasn’t paid. If he refused to file, that raises ethical issues. The deliberate failure to file constitutes a crime,” Levin said. “If he has a good faith basis for contesting whether he owes the money, however, there is no ethical violation there.”

Binnall told The Daily Beast that his failure to pay the government was a matter of financial flexibility.

“Like many small business owners, in the past I had to be financially flexible as my business grew. That has resulted in some tax bills that I have had to arrange to pay over time, instead of all at once. Many business owners have been in the same position,” Binnall said. “The unfortunate question is whether these issues truly arise out of an attempt to serve the public good or whether I am targeted because of the clients I serve.”

Binnall, who has regularly trafficked in outlandish claims of election fraud, is not short on clients, and has handled numerous high-profile cases dating back to before the lien was imposed in 2018. In 2016, for instance, he represented former Sen. Ron Paul (R-KY) aide Dimitri Kesari in a campaign finance case. Kesari was found guilty, and his co-conspirators were later pardoned by Trump—about two months after the then-president hired Binnall.

All told, Binnall’s most famous clients—the Trump campaign and Republican National Committee—have over the last 18 months paid his firm, Harvey & Binnall PLLC, about $1.4 million in legal fees. (The firm has passed along an unknown portion of that money to local partners on those cases.)

Binnall also defends a group tied to conspiracy theorists Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood—called “Defending the Republic, Inc”—in the $1.3 billion lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems brought against Powell last year. State and federal filings list him as an agent on spin-off groups as well.

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Binnall’s firm advertises 10 areas of expertise, from alternative dispute resolution to appeals to white collar defense. His own profile page notes other work, such as his position as president of Parliamentary Strategies, where he advises “professional associations, political parties, candidates, and others” in a variety of matters.

Binnall has in recent years also represented a number of other clients, some in high-profile cases. Last June, for instance, he stepped up as lead defense counsel for Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan National Army, who is battling a barrage of litigation for allegedly ordering troops to torture and kill civilians. That case is ongoing.

Additionally, other entities tied to Binnall have had their tax-exempt status revoked for failure to file their returns, state and federal filings show.

In 2015, Binnall helped create a Virginia nonprofit called Americans for a Better Economy. That group lost its federal 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status in 2020, after it failed to file tax returns for three years. He also served as a board member for America’s Foundation for Law and Liberty Inc. (AFLL), which had its federal tax-exempt status yanked last year, also for failure to file.

As is common among many hardcore fiscal conservatives, Binnall expresses open hostility to the IRS.

Last March, for instance, Binnall compared federal taxation to theft. And in October, about two months after the IRS posted the AFLL’s revocation notice, Binnall publicly attacked the agency twice, falsely alleging that the agency targets conservatives. (The IRS’s bias against conservative groups was the subject of an Obama-era scandal, but years later, a full audit revealed that the agency had also targeted progressive groups at the same time—and the IRS never even revoked a tax-exempt status for a political group.)

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Binnall said in his statement that these posts were just part of his broader ideological flow.

“In regards to my statements on social media, I have consistently opposed all government entities that target people on the basis of their politics. That certainly includes the IRS,” he said.

While Trump’s top lawyers have come and gone, Binnall has stepped into the vacuum and, so far, held on. He received his first paycheck the day before the 2020 election, and has expanded his services since then.

Those services include fueling Trump’s Big Lie about a stolen election month after month in various courts and on social media. After receiving that first check, Binnall immediately proceeded to sling lies about voter fraud. At one point he falsely claimed—in sworn Senate testimony—that 1,500 dead people had voted in Nevada.(His election fraud work in that state may have also run afoul of privacy laws and U.S. Postal Service regulations, Salon reported.)

Binnall later griped that YouTube had pulled a video of his Senate testimony, writing on Facebook that the video platform “has decided that my opening statement (given under oath and based upon hard evidence) is too dangerous for you to see.”

And even after the Jan. 6 insurrection, Binnall continued to spread false claims of voter fraud.

Levin, the legal profession expert at UCONN, cautioned against judging lawyers by the people they represent. Binnall’s conduct in those cases, she said, is what’s important.

“If he made false representations to the court while representing his clients, he can be subject to discipline. Even false out-of-court statements that he makes in his capacity as a lawyer for his clients could result in discipline,” Levin said. A number of MAGA-aligned lawyers have been sanctioned for promoting false claims of election fraud—including Binnall clients Powell and Wood.

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But in addition to raking it in for legal services, Binnall might also be shelling it out. The parents of a former client have sued him in Virginia state court for fraud and malpractice, to the tune of $2,550,000, after paying Binnall $336,000—more than twice his federal lien—to defend their son in a child sexual exploitation case. The complaint alleges that Binnall failed to tell his client, who is currently serving out a 10-year sentence, that an Assistant U.S. Attorney had proposed a plea bargain.

“If he didn’t tell his client about a potential plea bargain, that is very serious,” Levin said. “The client gets to decide whether to take a plea and that is obviously not possible if the lawyer never communicates the plea offer.”

Binnall decried the lawsuit as “frivolous,” possibly to the point of sanctions.

“The litigation against my firm and me is legally and factually baseless. Not only do we look forward to winning the case, but we also look forward to getting sanctions against the plaintiffs and their lawyers for bringing a frivolous lawsuit,” he said.

Michael Teter, managing director of the65 Project, a group that aims to hold accountable attorneys who spurred the Jan. 6 insurrection and spread election fraud, said that the sprawl of allegations against Binnall, if true, raises ethical concerns.

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“On its face, Mr. Binnall’s conduct violates many rules of professional conduct,” Teter told The Daily Beast, listing requirements that attorneys be truthful to tribunals, avoid fraudulent or illegal conduct, and notify clients of plea proposals.

“It appears that Mr. Binnall’s work spreading lies and falsehoods in court about the 2020 election was not the only time he’s violated the rules of professional conduct, and the bar should take any complaints filed against him very seriously,” he said.

While numerous Trump-aligned attorneys have been hit with bar complaints, including some Binnall clients, none have been reported against Binnall.

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Binnall told The Daily Beast that his failure to pay the government was a matter of financial flexibility.

Binnall also defends a group tied to conspiracy theorists Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood—called “Defending the Republic, Inc”—in the $1.3 billion lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems brought against Powell last year. State and federal filings list him as an agent on spin-off groups as well.

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Additionally, other entities tied to Binnall have had their tax-exempt status revoked for failure to file their returns, state and federal filings show.

As is common among many hardcore fiscal conservatives, Binnall expresses open hostility to the IRS.

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Trump’s PAC Keeps Losing Money. His Lawyers Keep Cashing In.

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Donald Trump’s campaign keeps on losing money because he’s just using it to pay his legal fees.

Roger Sollenberger

Political Reporter

Updated Apr. 19, 2022 5:09AM ET / Published Apr. 19, 2022

For the third straight quarter, Donald Trump’s former campaign committee turned in a fundraising loss, shedding $1.2 million to start 2022. And the reason for almost all of the Trump campaign’s money problems is a familiar one: lawyers.

According to a campaign finance disclosure filed in recent days, the committee—“Make America Great Again PAC“—handed over about $1.1 million in legal fees between January and the end of March.

That’s more than 40 percent of the PAC’s $2.6 million in total expenses, for the PAC’s biggest deficit since Trump left office. The $1.4 million it raised barely covered its legal bills.

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The loss cut MAGA PAC’s cash on hand from about $6.66 million at year’s end to around $5.47 million as of March 31. The committee, which Trump converted from his old campaign after leaving office, now holds about half the $10.7 million it had at the start of 2021.

In the first half of the year, fresh off of election challenges and an impeachment trial, MAGA PAC ate the vast majority of Trump’s political legal costs—about $7.8 million of the $8 million total. The payouts plummeted in the back half of 2021, with a total $1.7 million spread over those six months, indicating another uptick to kick off 2022.

The biggest winner this quarter was Jesse Binnall, Trump’s top election challenger, whose firm clocked $410,000 for its services. Binnall farms some of those fees out to local counsel, whose names aren’t listed on the reports. One such firm is the Tulsa, Oklahoma, shop Hall Estill, which Binnall retained last year to assist in an ongoing lawsuit alleging civil rights violations at Trump’s COVID comeback rally in June 2020.

MAGA PAC also paid its customary retainer to Elections LLC, a joint venture between three former top campaign aides, which now commands $52,500 a month. (Trump’s Save America joint fundraising committee retains Elections LLC as well.)

Combined, Elections LLC and Binnall’s firm—including the anonymous local subcontractors—absorbed more than half the legal costs on the quarter.

The spike in attorney fees comes after a significant dropoff late last year. That decrease coincided with a rise in the Republican National Committee’s costs, after the GOP agreed to foot Trump’s legal expenses in ongoing investigations into his business practices—up to $1.6 million.

The rest of MAGA PAC’s $2.6 million expense report included the committee’s biggest single payout: $590,000 to a company called 2M Document Management and Imaging, LLC, itemized for “research consulting.”

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In all, the secretive Delaware-based entity pocketed about $1.17 million last quarter, already nosing near its 2021 total of $1.6 million.No other political committee has ever paid the company, according to federal data.

Trump’s trifurcated fundraising streams can be tough to follow.Last week, there was a second filing in addition to MAGA PAC, this one from the joint fundraising vehicle Trump shares with the RNC, called Save America—the same name as his leadership PAC. That group raised a total $19 million this quarter, which gets split between Trump groups and the RNC.

Unlike MAGA PAC, however, the joint committee came out on top. It racked up about $8.6 million in operating costs, less than half its haul. Most of that money went to fundraising consultants and advertisers, and unlike MAGA PAC reported no legal fees—outside of a monthly $20,000 to Elections LLC. The committee currently holds about $6.4 million.

But we won’t have a complete picture of Trump’s finances until later this week, whenhis largest account—Save America leadership PAC, with $110 million in the bank—files its monthly report. We do know that it pulled at least $5.1 million in new transfers from the joint committee.

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But as confounding as that all is, one MAGA PAC payment stands out as particularly curious: the one rent check made out to Trump Tower.

While the amount is the normal monthly rate of $37,541.67, there’s only one payment instead of the expected three. And it went to a curious destination—not Trump Tower itself, but a P.O. box in Hicksville, New York, a Long Island town an hour from Fifth Avenue.

The campaign’s rent checks have vacillated over the years between Trump Tower and Hicksville, seemingly at random, with no explanation. However, that mailbox is a short drive from Trump’s longtime accountants, Mazars USA.

MAGA PAC’s last rent check was made out Feb. 11. Three days later, Mazars dropped Trump as a client, citing unreliable financial statements.

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former President Trump has chosen Jesse Binnall, a Republican lawyer who filed a lawsuit attempting to overturn the 2020 election results in Nevada, to represent him in a lawsuit that alleges he violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan act by inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

Mississippi Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson and the NAACP filed the suit in February against Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the Oath Keepers militia, alleging that they “conspired to incite an assembled crowd” in Washington, D.C. to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6 and disrupt the counting of electoral votes.

Court documents filed in the lawsuit on Thursday show that Jesse Binnall will represent Trump in the suit.

Binnall represented former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn alongside Sidney Powell in his criminal trial for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Flynn was subsequently pardoned.

More recently, Binnall was involved in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election with a lawsuit against election officials in Nevada. He testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in December and claimed that 42,000 people voted more than once during Nevada’s 2020 election—a claim since debunked by fact-checkers.

Binnall is also representing Defending the Republic, a legal organization founded by Sidney Powell to pursue lawsuits that sought to overturn election results from the election, in a $1.3 billion lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Powell and the legal group.

On Twitter, Binnall is a vocal conservative and member of the MAGA faithful. On Jan. 6, as Congress tallied up President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, Binnall echoed Trump’s disdain for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who the former president viewed as disloyal for his refusal to prevent the certification of Biden’s win.

“He is going to be the minority leader because he’s a coward and turning a blind eye to voter fraud. Any Senator that continues to support his leadership should be thrown out,” Binnall tweeted.

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...Aside from being a partner at Binnall Law Group, he is also the president of Parliamentary Strategies, which is owned by the firm and provides parliamentary procedure and meeting strategy services to clients. He’s a certified professional parliamentarian, advising professional associations, political parties, candidates, and others on meeting procedure, bylaw drafting and interpretation, and other parliamentary matters. He also has a niche practice of providing procedural strategic advice to clients who have business to be decided at meetings and conventions. Indeed, he has served four presidential campaigns as a parliamentary procedure strategy consultant.

When he takes on a new case, Jesse assumes it will go to court and prepares aggressively and thoroughly. Even though most disputes settle well before a trial date, his extensive preparation produces better outcomes for clients at a fee that reflects the value of the matter.

The media often seeks out Jesse to discuss law and technology issues. He has been quoted by the New York Times, Forbes, Wired and the Huffington Post, and appeared as a guest on DemocracyNow, the Ron PaulChannel and Lawyer2Laywer.

Jesse stays involved in a number of professional organizations. He is president of the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University’s Alumni Association, a member of the Pegasus Scholar Committee of the American Inns of Court, and serves as Director and Senior Counsel for the American Institute for Law & Liberty.

Before going into private practice, he clerked for The Hon. Jonathan C. Thacher at the Circuit Court for Fairfax County, Virginia. When he’s not working, Jesse’s pastimes include flying — he is an avid private pilot – sailing and scuba diving, especially shark diving.

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