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The group describes the firm's involvement with Biden and Bragg as “election interference persecution” and “a major ethical issue” in the legal woes Trump faces as he attempts to reclaim the White House in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
A global law firm that has financially supported President Joe Biden is purportedly providing free legal help to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into the alleged hush money trial against former President Donald Trump.
Representatives with the Oversight Project, a government watchdog group with The Heritage Foundation, shared via social media a document alleging lawyers with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP provided pro bono legal services for the prosecution against Trump.
In a subsequent post from the watchdog group, a document shows Brad Karp, chair of Paul Weiss, as a prolific donor for left-wing politicians like President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and U.S. Sens Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
The group describes the firm's involvement with Biden and Bragg as “election interference persecution” and “a major ethical issue” in the legal woes Trump faces as he attempts to reclaim the White House in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
“How can a law firm ethically provide free legal services to the DA one day and then represent clients against the DA the next?” the group wrote on the X, formerly known as Twitter.
Bragg charged Trump last year on a 34-count indictment for “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified” business documents, allegedly making a covert $130,000 hush money payment to former adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"During the election, Trump and others employed a ‘catch and kill’ scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects," Bragg alleged in the indictment last year, according to Fox News. "TRUMP then went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws."
Trump repeatedly denied having an affair with Daniels and has pleaded not guilty to all counts, accusing the Manhattan DA of political persecution.
Jury selection for the trial in New York City that began on Monday is the first of the election year for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Prosecutors asked Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan to impose a $3,000 fine for Trump's alleged violation of an earlier gag order, which accused him of using his social media platform Truth Social to attack witnesses in the case, including porn actress Stormy Daniels and Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.
The pretrial motions and arguments have focused on the scope of the gag order and the potential for Trump's social media activity to influence the trial.
The request is still pending.
Lawyers for Trump requested to delay the case or toss it altogether until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. Merchan reportedly denied the request, calling it “untimely.”
Bragg’s indictment marks for first of four criminal cases Trump faces, including two led by Special Counsel Jack Smith and one led by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges in all four cases against him.