Trump allies set up MAGA riot 'legal fund' that will funnel money to his former acting AG's firm: report

A new legal fund has been established to support organizers of former President Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally on Jan. 6 who've been subpoenaed by the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol insurrection.

And money raised through the fund will pay for counsel from the law firm of Trump's former acting attorney general, Matt Whitaker, according to Rolling Stone.

"The legal fund demonstrates how wealthy and powerful people within Trump's inner circle are looking out for the president's former aides who are being investigated for their role in planning a large Jan. 6 demonstration at the White House Ellipse," the magazine reports. "Whitaker is currently of counsel at the firm of Graves Garrett in Kansas City, Missouri. An attorney working on matters related to the House investigation says Whitaker is "supervising" two other lawyers from the firm, Paul Brothers and Todd Graves, in their defense of the rally organizers."

The magazine notes that the fund, which reportedly was set up by Matt and Mercedes Schlapp, "will not help the hundreds of Trump supporters who have been charged with storming the building."

Mercedes Schlapp served as director of communications in Trump's White House, while here husband Matt is the chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), and Whitaker served as acting AG from November 2018 until February 2019.

Sources said the fund is being set up by loyalists of the former president because "it shows fealty to Trump," Rolling Stone reports.

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