Bitter FEC Democrats this week expressed outrage that Republican commissioners didn’t agree to investigate former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign spending, calling it the 'unmistakable stench of partisanship.'
In a five-page memo, Commissioners Ellen Weintraub and Shana Broussard accused the three GOP commissioners of running block for Trump and said their actions are undermining the reason the agency exists.
“It is ironic, ahistorical, arbitrary, and capricious for commissioners to refuse to consider information derived from analogous sources,” Weintraub and Broussard added. At issue were the millions delivered to two firms set up by Trump allies, Parscale Strategy and American Made Media Consultants. Among the allegations was that the campaign funneled money through the two firms to friends and family, including the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancee.
🔥 🔥 GOP @FEC commissioners block investigation of largest alleged violation in @FEC history: $781,584,527 by Trump & his campaign. Not worth our time, they say.