The following article by Anu Narayanswamy and Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website August 6, 2018:
A fund set up to help pay legal expenses incurred by aides to President Trump drawn into the Russia investigation raised about $200,000 in four months, with most of the money coming from some of the president’s most prolific donors, according to documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
The largest check came from longtime friend Geoffrey Palmer, a California real estate developer, who donated $100,000, according to the filing, which was submitted to the IRS in July and provided to The Washington Post by the fund Monday. Palmer also has given to America First Action, a super PAC supporting Trump’s legislative agenda.
Other donors included casino businessman Phillip Ruffin, who gave $50,000. Continental Resources, an oil company headed by another longtime supporter, Harold Hamm, gave $25,000.