A legal defense fund designed to help aides to Donald Trump cover mounting legal fees stemming from the ongoing Russia election meddling probes is now active.

The Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust opened Tuesday in the state of Delaware.

Set up as a tax-exempt political organization, the fund will assist White House staffers and campaign aides like communications director Hope Hicks with legal costs incurred in the course of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and the House and Senate Intelligence probes into the 2016 election.

The fund will assist White House staffers and campaign aides like communications director Hope Hicks with legal costs incurred in the course of the Russia probes

A number of Trump's current and former aides are racking up legal bills as they defend themselves against allegations that they colluded with Russia during the presidential campaign.

Money from the fund will be available to consultants, volunteers and employees of Trump's campaign, as well as transition staff and administration officials, a press release said.

It will be divided into at least two accounts, the release said, creating separate pots of money for government employees and non-government employees.

The president and his immediate family members are not eligible for assistance through the limited liability corporation.

In addition to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation (pictured), the fund will assist Trump associates with their defense in the House and Senate Intelligence probes

A release announcing the fund explicitly states that criminal charges and indictments outside the purpose of the fund are excluded from payout, as well, seemingly ruling out Paul Manafort and Rick Gates as candidates.

The pair have been charged with financial crimes unrelated to their work on the campaign.

Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was fired for lying about his conversations with the Kremlin during the transition, would not take the money even if it was offered to him, a source told ABC News.

Carter Page, an unpaid adviser to the campaign who the FBI spied on, would be eligible for assistance. Page was revealed in a GOP memo to have been surveiled by the feds after trips to Russia and contact with Kremlin-linked individuals set off alarms.

The Office of Government Ethics upon reviewing the fund determined in January that it would be in compliance with federal regulations, opening it up to current White House staffers.

Hicks, the White House communications director, senior policy advsior Stephen Miller and social media director Dan Scavino are a few of the top Trump aides who could utilize it.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon could also tap the account.

A source close to Bannon tells DailyMail.com that 'he's absolutely not accepting' money from the fund, however, and 'will be covering all of his legal expenses himself.'

Hicks and Bannon are part of a current dispute with lawmakers involved in the House Intelligence Committee's probe over the White House's attempt to exert blanket executive privilege.

Legislators are angry the Trump administration is trying to apply privilege to the period after the election before Trump took the Oath of Office, and Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the panel, is threatening to hold Bannon in contempt.

President Trump's legal bills and his son Don Jr's have been covered by the Republican National Committee in the past

According to ABC News, law office Wiley Rein set up the fund on behalf of Trump's campaign with the assistance of the White House.

The fund is being managed at this time by former Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth of New York.

A similar fund, the 'Clinton Legal Expense Trust,' was set up for Bill Clinton staffers caught up in the Whitewater investigation and Paula Jones sexual harassment case creating a precedent for a donation-based account.

President Trump's legal bills, and his son Don Jr's, have been covered by the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign in the past. In 2017, the RNC and the Trump campaign spent a combined $5.5 million on legal bills, according to Politico.

The president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has become a key figure in the allegations of Russian collusion, is technically eligible for assistance through the legal defense fund, although it is unknown whether he'll accept the aid.

A request for comment from Kushner's lawyer did not receive an immediate reply.