The Trump campaign on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission arguing money raised for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid cannot be transferred to Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
The complaint was filed by the Trump campaign’s general counsel David Warrington and argues transferring the funds would amount to “little more than a thinly veiled $91.5 million excessive contribution from one presidential candidate to another.”
“Kamala Harris is seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash — a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended,” the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by CNN, states.
Lets see if we can find a way to delay the complaint until after the election.
There’s no need to force a delay; the FEC moves at a snail’s pace. They’re still working on cases from the 2016 election.
Working is a strong word. It’s more regulatory capture and violators release.
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.
That’s the adage as i remember it.
This was pretty expected and will go nowhere useful for them. They’re literally just wasting time and money. Not only is there not a leg to stand on legally speaking, even if some Trump-sucking judge agreed to this, then the money could just be dumped into a Super PAC, and we all know how good they are at staying “independent.”
Cool. Transfer it all to a PAC. Then the PAC can give to Harris. All legal.
Proud to be the only one providing actual analysis of legality in these comments so far 🫡
“I don’t think most campaign finance lawyers believe that this is a best reading of the law,” Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UCLA’s law school, told CNN on Tuesday of the Trump campaign’s argument. But, he added, “that doesn’t mean it can’t get tied up in FEC proceedings for years.”
Veteran Republican election lawyer Charlie Spies, who briefly served as the RNC’s general counsel earlier this year, argued recently that the Biden-Harris team must be formally nominated by their party before any money could be shifted.
“If President Biden is committed to passing the torch to his vice president, and wants to be able to seed her campaign with the current Biden for President campaign war chest, he’ll first have to become his party’s legal nominee,” Spies wrote in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal before Biden’s exit from the race.
But other campaign finance experts disagree. And Federal Election Commissioner Dara Lindenbaum, a Democrat viewed as a swing vote on the evenly divided commission, has said Harris could access what Biden raised through the campaign committee because it is registered for both the president and vice president.
Oh no! She might be denied a day and a half’s fundraising.
The way I understood it is that the Biden campaign was basically renamed and Harris is the candidate, so the war chest is deeper than since she announced.
Trump is still wearing the ear diaper I see. Man up, you got a small scratch.
Very old people heals slow.
I think it’s because of how tiny the wound is. He doesn’t want to let on how minor his injury is
Oh no citizens United bite me!
Coward running scared. Time to rot in prison, fat ass piece of shit.
Wow…
The irony, she is outstanding.
Trump is just biden his time
I hope Trump continues wearing that stupid fucking rectangle, it has actually made me laugh out loud on a few occasions… It’s just so absurd! As I’m looking at it, I’m reminded of all of his acolytes wearing them too, that’s usually when i finally crack up. I really would like to try wearing one but i just don’t want to give anyone the wrong idea 👂
Poor little Trump I think he may cry.
