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First the Feds Fined Clinton. Now It Might Be Trump's Turn.
The FEC recently fined Hillary Clinton and the DNC for a violation that Donald Trump and the RNC seem guilty of on a whole other level.When it came out last week that the Federal Election Commission fined Hillary Clintons presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for misreporting political payments in 2016 that funded the explosive Steele dossier, the news attracted plenty of media attention. The penalties themselves, however, had nothing to do with the actual content, creation, or distribution of that infamous document.
Instead, the FEC dinged the Democrats on a clerical issue. And the real loser might actually be Donald Trump.
By coincidence, the same day the Clinton news broke, a watchdog group sued the FEC for taking no action on its complaint alleging that Trumps 2020 campaign committed the exact same clerical violation. In both cases, the campaigns allegedly reported payments to a pass-through that actually went to another entity, concealing the moneys true recipient and purpose from the public.
But theres a big difference. The alleged Clinton and DNC shell payments totaled less than a million dollars, combined. The Trump campaigns arrangement allegedly concealed nearly $800 million.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/first-the-feds-fined-hillary-clinton-now-it-might-be-donald-trumps-turn
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First the Feds Fined Clinton. Now It Might Be Trump's Turn. (Original Post)
Zorro
Apr 2022
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blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)1. "Might"
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. They won't. Trump is a Republican.
Scrivener7
(53,478 posts)3. Bet they don't.
riversedge
(73,742 posts)4. Trump will just get more delays and delays and delays.