A White House official said President Trump plans to spend at least $ 430.000 of his money to help pay both the White House staff bill and help investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.
It is Trump's first private financial commitment that he did not trust in the investigations already conducted and highlighted some Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign. At the moment, it is not clear how Trump's private funds will be used.
Trump and his assistants have already committed hundreds of thousands of dollars for the insights that lawyer Robert Mueller and the House and Senate commissions are conducting on Russia's role in the electoral campaign.
Mueller's investigating team is listening to the former and current White House officials. Trump Electoral Officers have already sent tens of thousands of emails and documents to federal and congressional investigators.
Michael Caputo, former Trump campaign assistant, said the costs of these investigations had already hit their bank account and had to draw on family financial reserves for their children's college.
The Republican National Committee has already covered some of the legal costs for Trump's older son, Donald Trump Jr., who in June of 2016 met a Russian lawyer and other individuals who had promised to blame Clinton's name.
Trump has repeatedly denied having had any collusion with Russia to win the elections and expressed skepticism about the conclusion of US intelligence agencies, that Russia had a clear preference for Trump in the 2016 campaign.
The continuous investigations and attention to the problem have infuriated the president, who perceives the problem as an attempt to delegitimize his presidency. Trump, in a tweet said: "Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars more than me on the presidential election", and again, "Facebook was on her side, not mine!"
Norman Eisen, ethics attorney to then President Barack Obama said the proposal "raises substantive issues from the point of view of federal criminal law and from the point of view of federal ethics law," including the fact that Trump's private financial proposal could be interpreted as part of an effort to gather more favorable testimony. Eisen himself says that "whenever an individual who is at the center of an investigation, as President Trump is now, offers something of value to witnesses who may be able to influence the course of the investigation, important questions are raised ".
There is a part of American society that is against Trump's presidency and would like to accuse him because he does not share neither the ways nor the government of the current president. It is clear that this affair will weaken President Trump first within the United States, then in external relations. But it is equally clear that President Trump is strongly supported by his followers who share his ethics but above all his foreign policy. It's not a good time for all the United States.
By Roberta Preziosa