Team Trump Files FEC Complaint Over Kamala Getting Biden’s Campaign Money

Will this go anywhere? Almost no articles are trotting out their “legal experts” to say that there is nothing to it, that it is frivolous

Trump campaign files complaint with FEC seeking to keep Biden from transferring campaign funds to Harris

Donald Trump’s campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission claiming the transfer of funds from the Biden reelection campaign to the Harris presidential campaign is a violation of campaign finance rules. The complaint is filed against President Biden, Vice President Harris, the Biden campaign and campaign treasurer Keana Spencer.

“Kamala Harris is seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash — 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 (the “Act”).”

The Trump campaign’s general counsel, David Warrington accuses them of “filing fraudulent forms with the Commission purporting to repurpose one candidate’s principal campaign committee for the use of another candidate,” claiming that Harris simply replaced Biden’s name with her own rather than filing her own Statement of Candidacy.

“There is no provision in federal campaign finance law for Kamala Harris to take over Joe Biden’s candidacy now by quite literally attempting to become him via an amendment of his Form 2, assuming control of his campaign by amending Form 1, and making off with all of his cash,” wrote Warrington.

Does she have the legal authority to simply replace everything Biden with everything Kamala and get all the money that candidate Biden raised?

However, the claim is expected to face strong pushback from the Harris campaign, noting that when the campaign was originally registered with the FEC it was called the “principal campaign committee” for both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. At least one FEC commissioner has already indicated she agreed that if Harris became the nominee she would have legal access to the campaign funds.

Well, obviously they are going to push back. But, if it was for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but, Joe Biden is no longer part, does it count?

(Fox News) The complaint argues that if “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. 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.”

Well, we’ll see where this goes.

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