Turd Fergusen
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This is somewhat unprecedented, but it seems there may be some merit here...
nypost.com
The Trump campaign accused Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday of engaging in “largest campaign finance violation in American history” in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission over her attempt to use political donations made to President Biden.
“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,” Trump campaign general counsel David Warrington wrote in a grievance to the FEC.
The complaint was filed against Harris, Biden, the 81-year-old president’s principal campaign committee – renamed Harris for President on Sunday – and the committee’s treasurer.
It further describes the effort to repurpose the $91.5 million left in Biden’s campaign account to Harris as “fraudulent” and a “mockery of our campaign finance laws.”
Warrington argues that there is “no provision in federal campaign finance law for Kamala Harris to take over Joe Biden’s candidacy” and assume “control of his campaign” by simply amending forms on file with FEC.
He also claims that Harris, 59, is ineligible to inherit Biden’s war chest because she did not file a statement of candidacy designating Biden for President as one of her authorized committees.
The complaint refers to Harris as a “separate individual candidate competing for the Democratic Party’s nomination” in reasoning that the transfer of funds amounts to a “massive excessive contribution from Biden for President” to the vice president.
“The Commission must immediately find reason to believe and quickly end this ongoing violation,” Warrington’s letter concludes.
A Harris campaign official also claimed that the various Biden fundraising committees have always been authorized committees for both the president and vice president and are the same other the name change.
FEC Chairman Sean Cooksey – an appointee of former President Donald Trump – told NPR on Monday that the “unprecedented” nature of Biden handing Harris the keys to his campaign war chest may prove “complicated” and spark legal challenges.
“I think it’s gonna have to go through a process, through the FEC,” Cooksey said. “I expect, there’s probably going to be challenges to that at the agency, and probably in the courts as well.”
Trump campaign files FEC complaint against Harris over use of Biden’s $91.5M war chest: ‘Fraudulent’
The complaint was filed against Harris, Biden, the 81-year-old president’s principal campaign committee – renamed Harris for President on Sunday – and the committee’s treasurer.
