Trump Campaign may have Broken Law by Seeking Foreign Political Donations

Trump Campaign may have Broken Law by Seeking Foreign Political Donations

theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/29/trump-campaign-donations-foreign-politicians

Watchdog groups will lodge a complaint alleging his campaign violated federal rules by soliciting money from politicians in Scotland, Australia and Iceland

Donald Trump’s campaign has been asking foreign politicians for donations to help make America great again – possibly violating federal election rules in the process.

On Wednesday, two campaign finance watchdog groups, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, said they will lodge a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that Trump’s campaign has violated federal law by soliciting donations from politicians in Scotland, Australia and Iceland, among others.

“Donald Trump should have known better,” said Paul S Ryan, deputy executive director of Campaign Legal Center. “It is a no-brainer that it violates the law to send fundraising emails to members of a foreign government on their official foreign government email accounts, and yet, that’s exactly what Trump has done repeatedly.”

The Federal Election Campaign Act prohibits “any foreign national from contributing, donating, or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly. It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them.”

The complaint argues that the Trump campaign has “knowingly and illegally” solicited donations from the foreign nationals. It includes several references to media reports of politicians receiving fundraising emails, including a number of members of parliament in Iceland and Australia as well as the 54 members of the Scottish National party and UK House of Commons.

“This whole matter is very perplexing. The letter left me speechless,” Katrín Jakobsdóttir, head of the Left Green party and a recipient of one of the emails, was quoted as saying in Iceland magazine.

Similarly, other recipients across the globe expressed confusion and even offense that they had been targeted as a potential donor.

Others declared their support for Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.

A former Canadian prime minister also received a funding email.

Trump’s campaign did not return a request for comment.

Brendan Fischer, associate council with the Campaign Legal Center, said the statute is explicit and he couldn’t recall any previous incident of a candidate running afoul of the rule relating to foreign nationals.

“It’s certainly strange, unique, perhaps unprecedented,” Fischer said.

This isn’t the first of the Trump campaign’s financial woes. Last week, his campaign budget has been widely mocked as recently published figures showed him entering June with just $1.3m in the bank compared to Clinton, who had $42.5m, according to filings released by the FEC last week. He has had difficulty raising money through the usual Republican channels as the GOP is still grappling with his nomination.

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usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/13/trump-accused-destroying-email-evidence-lawsuit-10-years-ago-republican-hillary-president/85795082/
archive.is/gwFVG
thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283331-lawsuit-accused-trump-organization-of-deleting-emails
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_5KR
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Are you fucking kidding me. The Saudis keep donating to the Clintons.

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This reeks to high heaven. There's no way Trump could be dumb enough to send letters asking for d'nations to foreign shitlib politicians. And notice that it's only shitlibs from the cucked anglosphere who seem to be getting these.

Just donate to the Trump campaign goy

Why haven't you donated yet?

Just $250 is enough goy, we really need your help
No? How about $100. We know you can afford it. Won't you help make our wall— I mean, America great again?
Goy you need to donate at least $10.
You're the worst goy, why won't you donate just $10? Can you spare $3?
Goy? GOY? WHY WONT YOU DONATE TO OUR CAMPAIGN GOY?

Wealthy Muslims helped Donald Trump build his Empire

qz.com/568178/donald-trump-owes-much-of-his-fortune-to-wea/

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Stump the Trump

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I think you will find that his predecessors did the same, and he wasn't aware anything was wrong so no biggy, I doubt the FBI will interview him let alone prosecute.

It's nothing

So every poll but the ABC and Reuters (Which show those two are shit poll tbh) polls are within MOE and even then most of those polls are horribly scewed like the Brexit polls were.

WEW LAD

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stump the trump

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I think you will find that his predecessors did the same, and he wasn't aware anything was wrong so no biggy, I doubt the FBI will interview him let alone prosecute.

It's nothing

Oy vey, don't look at the Clinton Foundation, look at Drumpf!

notice how OP doesn't actually say anything (because he knows any of his retarded nigger opinions would expose him immediately) and just copypasted horseshit from 3rd parties. blatant shill thread sage hide and report

If buying someone's stuff is "bailing out" then I regularly bail out my local grocer from the brink of financial ruin every week.

Adelson still hasn't given Trump the money. How long will you post this?

Yeah, no. Don't care. I'm not gonna hold Donald to some sort of higher standard when the future of the US is at stake, and his opponent is one of the most corrupt politicians ever.

kek, this election has been the best circus, can't wait for the next one

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read nigger

Did you read kike?
Go cuckpost elsewhere quadfaggot.

That's how rich people bail each other out…

This is probably as fake as the articles ran claiming he was begging his supporters for $100k emergency fund raising that came out the weekend before he officially announced he was taking donations. The media is full of liars this shouldn't surprise anyone here.

So buying a boat and property is just a "bailout". Learn your economic vocab kike. You will never stump the trump.
Guess I just bailed out my department store too. They should remember me!!!
You really want achmed to fuck your daughter and blm to expsnd your asshole.

Clearly it's not illegal to TAKE funds from other countries just to solicit them.

While we're on about fake articles, what's a good counter against this shit? I see this being used as some "leverage" against the don

usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/13/trump-accused-destroying-email-evidence-lawsuit-10-years-ago-republican-hillary-president/85795082/
archive.is/gwFVG

thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283331-lawsuit-accused-trump-organization-of-deleting-emails
archive.is/7MR6z

wait, found it

The suit said Fields reportedly pitched the idea of building a casino with the Seminole Native American tribe in Florida during the 1990s.
But Fields later allegedly told Trump the idea was unfeasible, it added, only to leave the businessman’s employ and implement the plan
elsewhere. USA Today said the companies sued by Trump argued the billionaire’s claims, if true, could be verified by his company’s emails and other records documenting their talks.

sage

Clearly it's not if she hadn't BEGGED for them to donate

If any of this is even true, which I doubt, it sounds more to me like Trumps election campaign has been infiltrated with moles, and they sent these out without his knowledge & without any authorization.
Trump needs to do a clean sweep of his organization, and do extensive background checks on those he hires as well as those that volunteer.
He needs to find out who sent out these solicitations & threaten them with massive litigation unless they admit what they did & who they did it for.

"Dubai is a top priority city for us," Ivanka Trump said. "We are looking at multiple opportunities in Abu Dhabi, in Qatar, in Saudi Arabia, so those are the four areas where we are seeing the most interest. We haven't made a final decision in any of the markets but we have many very compelling deals in each of them."

Wealthy Muslims helped Donald Trump build his Empire
qz.com/568178/donald-trump-owes-much-of-his-fortune-to-wea/

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Also projecting shill thread.
Sage.

Donald Trump himself sent the fundraising e-mail.

how many millions did you spend?

Trump Sends First Fundraising Email, Vows to Match Donations

06/21/16 10:44 AM EDT

Donald Trump, who as a primary candidate prided himself on being a "self-funder," on Tuesday blasted out his first personal fundraising solicitation hours after his campaign's finance report showed him with a fraction of the cash on hand as Hillary Clinton.

"This is the first fundraising email I have ever sent on behalf of my campaign. That’s right. The FIRST ONE," Trump wrote in the email, with the last two words underlined.

Even though his first fundraising email comes more than a year after he launched his campaign, the presumptive Republican nominee vowed to "help make it the most successful introductory fundraising email in modern political history by personally matching every dollar that comes in WITHIN THE NEXT 48 HOURS, up to $2 million!"

The latest batch of Federal Election Commission filings show a dismal state of affairs for Trump, who has just $1.3 million cash on hand compared to more than $42 million in Clinton's warchest. And while Trump has touted his skeleton staff as a model of efficiency, the latest documents show Clinton with nearly 10 times the number of employees on payroll.

The media/Shills Despair is so damn sweet!

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They're talking about bloody e-mails.

Anybody could have signed them up for e-mails.

It's an inconsequential democratic ploy.

Failing media.

Something's fishy about the OP…

someone should link this faggot the brexit polls

this has nothing to do with his campaign, you fucking shill. Investment in muslims countries doesn't mean wealthy muslims "built his empire"

Fuck off

are seriously comparing what he did/does as a Business man with she did/does as Attorney, First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State? REALLY Hilldog? i know things are starting to look bad but damn…

Nigger, the Trump Princess was a 282 foot superyacht and it was bought from him for only $20 million, after it was originally built for $100 million in the 80s, so that sneaky arab lowballed him by 80 percent since he needed the cash sooner than later. $20 million is not a "high price" for a superyacht, and a superyacht is not a "worthless asset" either dipshit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_5KR

Such is the state of the US. You can have a femidyke CFR puppet or an ultra good goy kike puppet.

What a world.

Wow, I had no idea that he was so crooked, I am totally a #hillarymissle now.

Danganronpa was a good game, but stop posting weeb shit where it doesn't belong.

don't tell me what to do faggot and at least Sage this shitty thread.

You're not a Holla Forumsak.

Adapt or fuck off.

Can we fucking Eric Cantor this faggot Paul Ryan already?

Can we GET RID OF THIS TUMOR ON THIS COUNTRY?

Stop posting your degenerate cartoons, you fucking overgrown child.

Can't expect Arab subhumans to be honest.

Surely if it didn't work for over a year, it will suddenly start working now :^)

It is trivial to forge an email and change the from field to display a different email address. Other header fields may be used to indicate who the email came from, but they are not displayed in the email client.

Nobody is going to sit around and manually send out donation emails. If legit, then the emails got on the list they used. It might have been sold to Trump, or they may have came from a signup. Would be trivial to sign up to something and wait for donation emails and complain about it.

Oh my God OP, it's fucking nothing. Better luck next time :^)

oh boy if this shitty thread and shills everywhere was not enough, we got mr."Holla Forumsak" and mr.Maturity here, you are in a imageboard, you do realize that right? you know how pathetic you look claiming superiority on anything here? also for a "Holla Forumsak" whatever the hell that is, you don't sage this shitty thread or your "off-topic" crap, so much for a true "pol/ak"…


seems like Paul Nehlen has a real shot in getting rid of that bastard.