Watchdog Groups File FEC Complaint Over Trump Emails To Foreign Pols

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fec-complaint-trump-emails-foreign-fundraising?utm_content=buffer166aa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Two watchdog groups, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, said they will file Wednesday a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that the Donald Trump campaign has broken federal law by sending fundraising emails to foreign elected officials.

"Donald Trump should have known better," Paul S. Ryan, the deputy executive director at the Campaign Legal Center, said in a statement. "It is a no-brainer that it violates the law to send fundraising emails to members of a foreign government on their official foreign government email accounts, and yet, that's exactly what Trump has done repeatedly."

Fred Werthemier, the president of Democracy 21, said that Trump's fundraising pleas to foreign members of parliament are "a strange and unique development that we have not seen before in campaign fundraising."

Campaign finance law prohibits campaigns from knowingly accepting or soliciting contributions from foreign nationals. It's not clear whether the Trump campaign purposefully sent the emails to foreign members of parliament.

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Iceland, Scotland, Britain, Australia, Denmark and Finland parliament members have received the emails. Very strange.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Trump says rules are the other guys

[gratuitous]

2. James O'Keefe was trying to engineer a foreign donation trap for the Clinton campaign

I wonder if his little Project Veritas will be interested in an actual illegal solicitation of foreign contributions? I guess we'll have to wait for his pimp costume to come back from the dry cleaners to find out . . .

[OldHippieChick]

3. I hope this gets more press. It is a significant

violation and shows the depth of their incompetence.

[Lucinda]

4. KNR Thankie!

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Good!

Keeping the backbone in place - that's what I like to see!

[ancianita]

6. A woulda-shoulda-coulda puppet for global leaders. Disgusting.

[sofa king]

7. No, dang it!

That doofus is about to hand us the White House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and maybe the House. We can't sink him before they nominate him at the convention!

Go Trump! Make America Grate Again!