In a huge move against the current President and his anointed successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Trump 2024 campaign has filed a complaint against them with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), arguing that they violated campaign finance law by transferring the campaign funds President Biden had raised for the 2024 election to Kamala.
The basis of the complaint is that President Biden transferred, in what the Trump Campaign called a “brazen money grab,” $91 million in fundraiser campaign cash to Kamala’s new campaign. That could be an FEC violation, as the cash was first brought in by Biden under what seem to some like misleading circumstances, given that he dropped out, and then repurposed for the benefit of VP Harris.
According to Fox News Digital, which reviewed the complaint, the general counsel for the Trump campaign, David Warrington, said that the matter was “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.”
In the complaint, Warrington argued, “Kamala Harris were a candidate for something in 2024, federal law requires her to have filed a Statement of Candidacy and for her name to have appeared in the name of her authorized committee. But Kamala Harris’s name does not appear in the name of her purported authorized committee, ‘Biden for President,’ and, until Sunday, no Statement of Candidacy existed for her.”
Continuing, he provided, “Then Sunday, rather than filing her own Statement of Candidacy, she merely altered Joe Biden’s to replace his name with hers. There is no mechanism under the Act for one individual to end another’s federal candidacy by simply amending the other’s Form 2. Moreover, in that purported amended Form 2 Harris designated ‘Biden for President’ as her principal campaign committee and then renamed it. Altering a document submitted to a federal agency is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519.3.”
The filing also provided that, Fox News Digital reported, “Kamala Harris is in the process of committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history and she is using the Commission’s own forms to do it.” Concluding, it provided, “The Commission must not and cannot sit idly by while one candidate takes nearly one hundred million dollars from the authorized committee of another, in violation of the Act and the will of the donors who gave the money in the first place.”
The complaint includes Biden, Harris, “Biden for President (aka Harris for President), and Keana Spencer, as treasurer, for flagrantly violating the Act by making and receiving an excessive contribution of nearly one hundred million dollars and for filing fraudulent forms with the Commission purporting to repurpose one candidate’s principal campaign committee for the use of another candidate.”
Pushing back on the allegations, Harris campaign spokesperson Charles Kretchmer Lutvak said, “Republicans may be jealous that Democrats are energized to defeat Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, but baseless legal claims – like the ones they’ve made for years to try to suppress votes and steal elections – will only distract them while we sign up volunteers, talk to voters, and win this election.”
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