Story highlights The RNC sent $131,250 to Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow

The group also sent $100,000 to John Dowd, the attorney Trump hired in June

(CNN) The Republican National Committee spent more than $230,000 in August to cover some of President Donald Trump's legal fees associated with the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, an RNC official told CNN on Tuesday.

The RNC paid Trump's personal attorneys Jay Sekulow and John Dowd $131,250 and $100,000, respectively, via their law firms, the official said. The fees to Sekulow's law firm covered work by other attorneys at his firm, the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group, a person familiar with the payments said.

The payments will be disclosed in the RNC's spending report for the month of August, which the committee plans to release on Wednesday.

The RNC has also begun to foot the legal payments of Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. The committee paid nearly $200,000 of Trump Jr.'s legal bills related to the Russia investigation, which he became embroiled in in part due to his meeting with an attorney he believed would provide him damaging information on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government.

Trump Jr.'s attorneys Alan Futerfas and the law firm Williams & Jensen have been paid $166,527.50 and $30,102.90, respectively, this month, two RNC officials said. The payments will not appear in the RNC's August campaign finance disclosure scheduled for Wednesday, but on the next month's disclosure.

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