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The Trump Campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday accusing them of violating campaign finance laws by transferring Biden’s campaign funds to the Harris Campaign.
“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,” David Warrington, the Trump campaign’s general counsel wrote in the complaint, according to a report from the New York Times.
The complaint further accuses Biden and Harris of “flagrantly violating the Act by making and receiving an excessive contribution of nearly one hundred million dollars, and for filing fraudulent forms with the Commission purporting to repurpose one candidate’s principal campaign committee for the use of another candidate.”
“To date, Biden for President has provided no indication that it will return or redesignate all of its general election contributions. Thus, each and every general election contribution received by Biden for President is an excessive contribution,” the complaint continued. In short, the Trump Campaign is arguing that Biden cannot keep campaign funds donated to his re-election victory if he is no longer a general election candidate.
Trump’s legal team is asking the FEC for a prompt and speedy response, arguing that Harris is “in the process of committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history and she is using the Commission’s own forms to do it.”
A Biden Campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Times, while the FEC stated that it cannot comment on any ongoing investigations…
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