Campaign Violations? The FEC Doesn’t Seem to Care
Despite strong evidence the Trump campaign broke the law in 2016, Republican commissioners don’t see any reason to investigate.
Time to clean up.
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The Federal Election Commission would prefer not to know. On a party-line vote, the FEC has voted not to pursue enforcement action against the campaign of President Donald Trump for soliciting foreign contributions in the summer of 2016.
In a separate case, also released this month, the FEC opted not to pursue charges that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had illegally solicited campaign money for a super PAC that backed Trump. That vote was also on a party line, with two Republican commissioners pitted against one Democrat and a Democratic-leaning independent. (The commission, at full strength, consists of six commissioners, no more than three of whom can come from the same party.)