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-- 2016 --
June 24:
A Brief Guide to Donald Trump's
Deeply Weird Campaign Finance Operation
A new FEC filing revealed that the presumptive Republican nominee has very
little money in his campaign war chest—and that the money he does have has been
spent in some very strange ways.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/avazka/guide-to-donald-trump-wierd-campaign-finance-spending
November 7: Campaign finance experts
question whether Dallas billionaire's pro-Trump super PAC violates law
In early August, Donald Trump named billionaire Dallas banker Andy Beal to his
campaign’s economic advisory council. About a month later, Beal, who has been
friendly with the New York real estate mogul for several years, created a
political committee that spent $1 million on advertisements supporting Trump’s
campaign.
To some campaign finance experts, the arrangement raises questions about whether
Beal’s super PAC — called
Save America From Its
Government — is violating regulations that prohibit coordination between the
campaign and outside groups.
But without stronger evidence that the campaign offered explicit guidance on the
advertisements, Beal would probably be in the clear, others say, pointing to the
murkiness of laws governing the big-dollar campaign groups.
“Certainly at the very least it creates an opportunity where someone has a foot
in both worlds, it creates the possibility that that might happen...”
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/11/07/campaign-finance-experts-question-whether-dallas-billionaires-pro-trump-super-pac-violates-law
December 9: U.S. President-elect Donald
Trump pumped a total of $66 million of his own money into his campaign – far
from the $100 million he frequently boasted he was going to spend, according to
campaign finance disclosures filed on Thursday night.
Trump-related business industries – those bearing his own name, including his
private jet and the Manhattan building that served as his campaign headquarters
– received $11 million in payments from his campaign.
Earlier this week, Trump‘s campaign revealed that he sold his entire stock
portfolio in June, a holding that was estimated at about $40 million.
In total, Trump raised $339 million and spent $322 million – a far cry from the
$565 million spent by Clinton, according to the latest Federal Election
Commission disclosure reports. Trump spent $94 million in the final days of the
campaign, compared with the $132 million spent by Clinton.
In total, Trump spent $107 million on advertising, including television ads, and
another $85 million in digital and online advertising. His second largest
expense was air travel, totaling $26 million and accounting for more campaign
spending than his payroll.
http://fortune.com/2016/12/09/donald-trump-campaign-spending/
-- 2018 --
May 3: Trump And Campaign Finance Law: The
Fundamentals Still Apply
Did President Trump break campaign finance laws when his personal lawyer,
Michael Cohen, paid $130,000 to an adult film actress as part of a nondisclosure
agreement? Or was Trump hoping the payment would smooth out his personal life?
That's still the fundamental question regarding Stormy Daniels' alleged
encounter with Trump. But after a few volleys of contradictory accounts on TV
and Twitter, the details are becoming clearer.
Federal election law covers transactions "for the purpose of influencing"
federal elections.
Trump
tweeted Thursday morning, "Money from the campaign, or campaign
contributions, played no roll in this transaction."
If the intent was to influence the election, then less than a month away, it
sets off a chain of potential questions and legal problems involving campaign
contributions:
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/03/608110757/trump-and-campaign-finance-law-the-fundamentals-still-apply
August 31:
Campaign-finance laws are hopelessly confusing when it comes to hush money
https://nypost.com/2018/08/31/campaign-finance-laws-are-hopelessly-confusing-when-it-comes-to-hush-money/
September 7: Trump Executives Face U.S.
Campaign-Finance Probe, Source Says
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether anyone in the Trump
Organization violated campaign-finance laws, in a follow-up to their conviction
last month of Michael Cohen, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The inquiry, not previously reported, shows that the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s
office doesn’t intend to stand down following the guilty plea from Trump’s
longtime personal lawyer. Manhattan prosecutors are working on a parallel track
to U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-07/trump-executives-are-said-to-face-campaign-finance-probe-by-u-s
December 6: How Donald Trump Shifted $1.1M
Of Campaign-Donor Money Into His Business
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/12/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-11m-of-campaign-donor-money-into-his-business/#7f8d780e4d34
December 11:
How Republicans Are Defending Trump's Campaign Finance ...
Actually, Crime Is Good
Several prominent GOP lawmakers are defending President Trump by arguing that
campaign finance felonies are no big deal
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-campaign-finance-violations-767436/
December 14: Despite Trump's claims,
campaign finance violations can be very serious
President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress this week have
repeatedly sought to dismiss as trivial allegations that Trump directed hush
money payments to women in potential violation of the nation's campaign-finance
laws.
"If you hire an attorney to solve a problem, do you expect the attorney do it
legally?" House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy asked Thursday, echoing Trump's
contention that the President's former lawyer Michael Cohen bore full
responsibility for any crimes. Earlier this week, McCarthy warned that there are
"a lot of members who would have to leave" Congress if campaign-finance
violations amounted to impeachable offenses.
But election-law experts say those arguments are getting harder to make, as the
crimes outlined by federal prosecutors this week pose fresh legal risks for
Trump and his campaign.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/14/politics/trump-cohen-legal-risk/index.html
December 19: Trump understands intricacies
of campaign finance laws, old testimony reveals
Sworn statements could potentially be used against president
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-understands-intricacies-of-campaign-finance-laws-old-testimony-reveals-2018-12-19
December 20: Trump ‘plays dumb’ in his
knowledge of campaign finance violations
Former Assistant FBI Director Frank Figliuzzi, former DOJ spox Matt Miller,
Former Rep. Donna Edwards, LA Times’ Eli Stokols, and The Daily Beast’s Sam
Stein on the president’s comments regarding hush-money payments using campaign
funds
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/trump-plays-dumb-in-his-knowledge-of-campaign-finance-violations-1403450947941
December 20: Donald Trump in 1999: ‘Nobody
Knows More About Campaign Finance Than Me’
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-1999-campaign-finance-expert-1267364
-- 2019 --
January 25: Roger Stone Indictment
Implicates Trump Campaign in Election Law Violations
A federal grand jury has
indicted Roger Stone for obstructing the federal investigation into Russian
interference in the 2016 presidential election, making false statements to the
federal government, and witness tampering. The details of Stone’s allegedly
illegal activities laid out in the indictment implicate the Trump campaign, and
perhaps President Trump himself, in illegally soliciting a campaign contribution
from a foreign national—namely, hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton, in
the possession of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and originating with Russian
military intelligence hackers.
Federal campaign finance law
prohibits foreign nationals from directly or indirectly making a
“contribution or donation of money or other thing of value” in connection with a
U.S. election—and also prohibits any person from soliciting, accepting
or receiving such a contribution.
Federal law
defines “contribution” to include “any gift … of money or anything of value
made by any person for the purpose of influencing any election for Federal
office.” And federal regulation
defines
“solicit” to mean “to ask, request, or recommend, explicitly or implicitly,
that another person make a contribution, donation, transfer of funds, or
otherwise provide anything of value.”
https://www.justsecurity.org/62369/roger-stone-indictment-campaign-finance-law-crimes/
February 8: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
dissects America's 'fundamentally broken' campaign finance laws
https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/feb/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-brutal-take-down-of-us-political-finance-laws-video
March 5: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Denies
Illegal Campaign Finance Allegations
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is questioned by Fox News after a FEC
complaint alleges the Democrat lawmaker and her chief of staff illegally moved
$885,000 in campaign contributions 'off the books.'
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/05/outnumbered_panel_alexandria_ocasio-cortez_denies_illegal_campaign_finance_allegations.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com
March 8: President Trump says hush money
does not amount to campaign finance violation
President Donald Trump, under federal investigation over
hush money to an alleged ex-mistress, said Thursday it has nothing to do
with campaign finance laws – and appeared to acknowledge payments he previously
said he knew nothing about.
"It was not a campaign contribution, and there were no violations of the
campaign finance laws by me. Fake News!" Trump tweeted.
Trump has denied having an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels, and
previously denied knowing about payments to her, referring questions about the
matter to Michael Cohen – the ex-personal attorney
who now says Trump authorized the payoffs.
In congressional testimony last week, Cohen
said Trump and his company reimbursed him for $130,000 paid to Daniels in
order to keep her quiet right before the 2016 presidential election.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the hush money amounted to an
unreported and illegal campaign contribution, in that it was designed to
influence the outcome of the election.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/07/donald-trump-says-hush-money-doesnt-violate-campaign-finance-law/3089914002/
-- 2020 --
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