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From the New York Times: Donald J. Trump’s campaign filed a complaint on Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission against President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing them of violating campaign finance laws by rolling Mr. Biden’s campaign funds over to Ms. Harris.
The complaint, filed by the Trump campaign’s general counsel, David Warrington, came after Mr. Biden’s team amended the name of its committee on Sunday to “Harris for President,” once Mr. Biden announced he was no longer running for a second term.
The fight is over what is left in Mr. Biden’s coffers that he is turning over to Ms. Harris, who had been his running mate.
“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,” Mr. Warrington wrote in the complaint.
In the filing, Warrington said Biden, Harris and the campaign treasurer are “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.”
NEW: Trump team files FEC complaint against Biden/Harris over turning the fundraising account over from one candidate to another https://t.co/3mcoWIE06m
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 23, 2024
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has filed a complaint with the FEC claiming that the transfer of Joe Biden’s $96 million campaign war chest to Kamala Harris violates the law https://t.co/gFjbJ4qgUW
— Bloomberg (@business) July 23, 2024
