If we had a functioning Federal Election Commission…
Donald Trump’s campaign is blatantly coordinating with something called “Crippled America PAC”, which is illegal, to solicit contributions from officials from foreign governments, which is illegal.
Josh Marshall has been talking with a Member of the Australian Parliament, Tim Watts. Like officials in several Countries he’s been getting email solicitations to donate to Trump.
When I chatted with Tim last night (US Time) he said he'd gotten two more Trump emails in the last 7 hours hours. But when he showed me the emails, something pretty weird was immediately apparent.
They weren't actually just from Trump. One was from the Trump campaign. The other was from a pro-Trump Super Pac called Crippled America PAC.
Given what I've said above, the existence of this list almost has to originate in Trump Derpland. A virtual certainty. So how did the same list end up in the hands of a Trump SuperPac? I looked up Crippled America PAC and as of their last filing just a couple weeks ago, they're total budget was $40. No m or b after that $ sign, forty bucks, the price of a fancy dinner. So obviously CAP was just stood up and actually started operating just now. And now they're showing up in Tim's inbox.
A pro-Trump SuperPac, which has not spent a reportable penny in 2016 and has a budget of $40, is making solicitations for illegal contributions off the exact same list Trump’s campaign is using to solicit illegal contributions. That list could only have come from inside the Trump campaign.
Until we figure out how to fix the broken FEC we simply have no campaign finance laws in this Country.