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Complaint: Kamala Harris Illegally Seized Joe Biden’s Campaign Funds

(NEW) Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris delivers remarks on the overturning of Roe V. Wade. June 26, 2022, Plainfield, IL, USA: Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris delivers remarks on the overturning of Roe V. Wade. which is a landmark decision handed down in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the question of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. Credit: Kyle Mazza/TheNews2 (Foto: Kyle Mazza/TheNews2/Deposit Photos)

People have been reporting for weeks now (including us) that Kamala Harris was the least bad replacement for Joe Biden because she’s the only person who can access his haul of campaign cash. It turns out that might not be correct.

The Trump campaign has filed an official complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) asking for a criminal investigation into Kamala Harris’s abrupt seizure of nearly $100 million from the Biden campaign over the weekend. They argue that Harris can’t simply take the money because she replaced Joe Biden’s with hers.

And at least one FEC commissioner agrees with the Trump campaign’s lawyers.

“This is little more than a thinly veiled $91.5 million excessive contribution from one presidential candidate to another, that is, from Joe Biden’s old campaign to Kamala Harris’s new campaign,” wrote Trump general counsel David Warrington in the FEC complaint.

 

There is a normal process that all candidates for federal office (House, Senate, President, and Vice President) must go through before they can accept any donations. First, candidates have to create a campaign committee that has their name in the title, such as the “Committee to Elect Donald J. Trump” and so forth.

This requires filling out a simple two-page form and submitting it to the FEC. Every campaign committee is assigned a unique federal ID number by the FEC.

Once the campaign committee is approved, which usually takes less than 72 hours, the candidate must file a statement of candidacy with the FEC. This statement declares that the campaign committee is their designated fundraising mechanism.

Kamala Harris didn’t do any of that. Instead, Joe Biden’s campaign treasurer submitted an amended statement of candidacy. They swapped out Joe Biden’s name for Kamala Harris’s name. They then declared Harris for President as her committee, using Joe Biden’s unique committee ID number. They also filed paperwork to amend the name of the committee itself.

This would be the equivalent of stealing your neighbor’s bank statement out of their mailbox, putting your name on it, and withdrawing all their money from their account.

Under FEC rules governing campaign contributions, one candidate’s committee is allowed to donate money to another candidate’s committee. The maximum contribution limit is $2,000. This provides transparency and prevents our filthy political class from laundering money through each other’s campaign committees.

Mitch McConnell can donate $2,000 to Lindsay Graham’s committee, and Lindsay Graham can donate $2,000 back, but that’s it.

The Trump campaign alleges that Harris’s maneuver is the equivalent of Joe Biden making an illegal $91.5 million donation to Harris. Another rule that they point out in the complaint is that a campaign committee can only be linked to one candidate’s name.

That’s why Donald Trump and JD Vance have separate campaign committees, and it’s why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had separate committees until she pulled the name switcheroo last weekend.

Harris’s name has appeared on Biden’s forms since 2020, but the Trump campaign argues that this doesn’t entitle her to the cash. The name of the committee was Joe Biden for President. People who donate to political campaigns usually don’t read the FEC filings for them, even though they’re public records that anyone can access online. When people donated to Joe Biden for President, they were giving the money to Joe Biden. Those donors, along with all the primary voters who cast their ballots for Biden, were not anticipating that the DNC and Harris would commit an insurrection against him.

If Harris had dropped out of the race and reentered as a challenger to Joe Biden, she wouldn’t have been able to take half the campaign funds with her. The rules simply prohibit activities like this. Likewise, if Biden had ended his candidacy earlier this year, he wouldn’t have been able to transfer the funds to Harris. If a candidate drops out of a race, they’re not allowed to keep unspent funds that were donated to them.

The Trump campaign says Kamala Harris and the Biden campaign treasurer have defrauded the FEC and should be referred to the Department of Justice for investigation and prosecution. If the FEC makes a ruling on this and finds against Harris, she could lose a huge sum of money that she’s not entitled to. Despite having a 3-3 split among commissioners, the FEC is usually very good at doling out fines and penalties against candidates who break the rules, regardless of party. Here’s hoping they’ll strip Kamala Harris of Joe Biden’s cash that she stole over the weekend.


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