NEW: 5 seasoned campaign finance experts told me that the Trump campaign's 2020 "money bomb" recurring donation ploy for fast cash (as reported by @ShaneGoldmacher) is unlike anything they've ever seen before — but the legal implications are still murky businessinsider.com/campaign-finan…
"I’ve never seen anything like this in campaign fundraising," @FredWertheimer, who has been doing campaign finance/ethics work for 4+ decades, told me. He called the recurring donations scheme "a complete ripoff" and a form of elder abuse businessinsider.com/campaign-finan…
"I've been here almost six years, and I can't think of anything particularly like this in which people did not know that they were making recurring contributions," Jordan Libowitz of @CREWcrew told me.
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Experts agree the Trump campaign's recurring donation tactics were unethical, but are they illegal? That's complicated. @CBHolman explained that federal campaign finance law mainly regulates the number of contributions allowed per person, but not the *method* of soliciting them
Beth Rotman of @CommonCause described the recurring donations ploy as "not really fraud, but potential trickery." She said now is a prime chance to the @FEC and even Congress to clarify regulations and standards for soliciting recurring donations businessinsider.com/campaign-finan…
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