Trump PAC Gave $50K to Law Firm Representing Indicted 2020 Campaign Adviser: FEC Filing

The law firm representing Boris Epshteyn received two payments from Trump's PAC in May. Epshteyn is preparing to go on trial in Arizona over his alleged role in lining up fake electors after the 2020 election

Donald Trump's leadership PAC recently gave $50,000 in donations to the law firm representing former campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, according to new campaign finance records.

Epshteyn, 41, is under indictment in Arizona over his role in rejecting the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Filings with the Federal Election Commission reveal that the Save America PAC — Trump's primary campaign fundraising arm — disbursed two payments to Phoenix-based law firm Tully Bailey LLP on May 14 for "legal consulting." The first payment amounted to $40,000, and the second payment equaled $10,000.

As NBC News first reported, the disbursements were made shortly after attorney Michael Bailey, a partner at the law firm, began representing Epshteyn.

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Epshteyn — one of Trump's few remaining allies from his time in the White House — was indicted by an Arizona grand jury in April on nine felony charges related to his alleged role in coordinating the fake electors scheme after the 2020 election.

After Trump lost to Biden, GOP allies lined up "alternate electors" in seven states that Biden won to sign fraudulent paperwork that claimed Trump earned their Electoral College votes. The desperate attempt to overturn the states' election results proved unsuccessful.

Epshteyn, who was not indicted in any previous criminal cases involving election subversion, faces one count of conspiracy, one count of fraudulent schemes and artifices, one count of fraudulent schemes and practices, and six counts of forgery. He pleaded not guilty to all charges in June.

Epshteyn is a Republican political strategist and lawyer who joined Trump's 2016 presidential campaign as a senior adviser. He briefly worked in Trump's administration, doing communications for the Presidential Inaugural Committee and the White House's surrogate operations team.

After resigning from his White House role only a couple of months into Trump's term, he became a political commentator for Sinclair Broadcast Group, ultimately returning to Trump's side as a strategic adviser for his 2020 reelection campaign, leading Jewish outreach for the Republican ticket.

Epshteyn was then part of the controversial legal team that challenged the 2020 election results in a number of ways, both inside and outside of the courtroom.

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While many of Trump's White House staffers and past attorneys have turned on the former president since he left office, Epshteyn has remained a loyal supporter of Trump who continued to advise him in recent years. The Washington Post previously reported that Epshteyn was influential in crafting Trump's aggressive approach toward Justice Department investigators in the midst of criminal probes.

In April 2023, Epshteyn appeared at Trump's side during the first-ever arraignment of a U.S. president in New York.

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