OF COURSE: Watchdog group files FEC complaint against Trump

Apparently Trump is sending donation emails to multiple people outside the US, which, according to a watchdog group, is a violation of federal law:

DC EXAMINER – A government watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, following multiple reports of foreign officials receiving fundraising solicitations from the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

“Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign committee is violating black-letter federal law by sending campaign fundraising emails to foreign nationals — including foreign politicians — in at least Iceland, Scotland, Australia and Britain,” the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center said in a statement on Wednesday.

Members of the British Parliament first complained about receiving fundraising emails from the Trump this week, shortly after the billionaire returned to the U.S. from a weekend trip to Scotland. Now, lawmakers in Australia, Iceland, Denmark and Finland are claiming they, too, received email requests for donations from Trump’s campaign.

One Australian member of parliament, Tim Watts, claimed on Twitter that he’s received more than four emails from the Trump campaign since last Friday, and that other Australian politicians have seen emails from the campaign pass through their inboxes as well.

A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not return the Washington Examiner’s request for comment. Some who received the emails suggested that someone affiliated with Trump’s campaign may have purchased a list containing millions of emails without knowing it contained those belonging to some foreign lawmakers.

Great. Another scandal in the making for the media and Hillary to use against Trump, and by his own doing it would seem.

There’s more here on this if you want to read more.


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