Posted on 06/19/2019 5:12:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
A conservative nonprofit has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Hillary Clinton campaign of violating election laws when it paid British citizen Christopher Steele to gather Kremlin-provided political dirt on candidate Donald Trump.
Though not stated outright, the lawsuit argues that Democrats violated an admonition issued last week by Federal Election Commission Chairman Ellen L. Weintraub. She decreed that political campaigns cannot accept “anything of value” from foreign nationals.
The lawsuit from The Coolidge Reagan Foundation says the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee accepted something of a value from a foreign national, Mr. Steele, in the form of Kremlin anti-Trump smut.
The suit’s purpose is to persuade a federal judge to order the FEC to vote on whether to open a formal investigation. Coolidge Reagan filed an FEC complaint in August. It was accepted for review, but there has been no formal commission action, according to Dan Backer, the foundation’s founder and president.
Ms. Weintraub issued her warning on June 13 after President Trump told ABC News that he would listen to foreign allegations against a political appointment.
“Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election,” said Ms. Weintraub, a Democrat. “This is not a novel concept. Electoral intervention from foreign governments has been considered unacceptable since the beginnings of our nation.”
Ms. Weintraub pinned the statement to her Twitter page, with the headline “I would not have thought that I needed to say this.”
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation said that during the 2016 election, Democrats did precisely what Ms. Weintraub described.
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That’s pretty much my first thought.
This should be fun.
BAM!
If it weren’t for double standards Democrats wouldn’t have no standards at all.
-with apologies to Willie Dixon
Great idea. She can screech at him all day and night
I smell camarone fajitas grilling, music playing and the doj super secret bunker cone of silence is at lunch..no indictments today, lol
good point they are already making it a misdemeaner, slap on the wrist they didn’t know..kind of like Bill on what is is..
(snicker)
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