Substantively, this matter is about the importance of transparency—the voters obviously should have known about McDougal’s allegations well before the elections, and AMI’s illegal hush money payment meant they did not.
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1400166091586932736
But this isn’t an example of @FEC enforcement—it is almost five years after the 2016 election, and all the investigative work was done by the federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. The FEC is just free-riding here.
The @FEC is supposed to be responsible for enforcing laws that govern campaign finance for campaigns for president & Congress. Yet, this is another example of the @FEC being an afterthought in campaign finance enforcement as DOJ takes the lead, with all the problems that creates.
To reduce political corruption, we need a stronger @FEC to enforce campaign finance laws and hold political candidates and their donors accountable. The #ForThePeopleAct, #S1, would reform the FEC to make that happen. #FixTheFEC
And lastly, for me, the most interesting question is where is the Trump campaign fine? They admitted making an illegal contribution to Trump—so by definition he took one. Is another shoe about to drop? Or are @FEC Commissioners refusing to enforce the law against the campaign?
It's important for campaigns and candidates to be held accountable and for our laws to be upheld.
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