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Donald Trump Faces FEC Lawsuit Over Elon Musk Interview
News? Weak. ^ | 8/14/2024

Posted on 08/14/2024 12:11:33 PM PDT by Lazamataz

political action committee has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Donald Trump over his recent two-hour live interview with Elon Musk.

End Citizens United, a Democrat-aligned PAC, claims that the interview "amounted to a virtual campaign event" for Trump financed by X, formerly Twitter, which would be in violation of federal law.

The complaint names Trump, his campaign treasurer Bradley T. Crate and X as the respondents.

"Such a brazen corporate contribution undermines the anti-corruption aims of the Act, and the Commission should immediately investigate these violations and take appropriate remedial action," the complaint said, referring to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; endcitizensunited; fec; frivolouslawsuit; harriscampaignproxy; lawfare; musk; socialmedia; tds; tdsbs; tiffanymuller; trump; trumpandmuskint
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To: Lazamataz

Are they also going to sue Fox News because Kamala refuses to do interviews with them?


41 posted on 08/14/2024 12:32:35 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: Lazamataz

Musk offered the same to Cackles.

Interviews are not illegal.


42 posted on 08/14/2024 12:33:24 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Lazamataz

They will sue him for breathing.


43 posted on 08/14/2024 12:33:37 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Lazamataz

Just activist nonsense, this isn’t going anywhere... but it will grab some headlines.


44 posted on 08/14/2024 12:34:40 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Lazamataz

This goes nowhere, Kamilla was “invited” and she has declined the identical situation.


45 posted on 08/14/2024 12:35:58 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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To: Lazamataz

The MSM has been covering Harris and Meathead for a month
now non-stop, in glowing terms that would make a Barbary
Pirate blush.

Of course Trump is covered about 10% as much, and it’s
always issues like, “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”

I believe X has offered Harris an opportunity to do an
interview. Crickets...


46 posted on 08/14/2024 12:36:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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To: Safrguns

If he interviewed Kamala it would also have been a Trump ad. The whole dem strategy is to hide everything about her. The fec says the Harris for Pres campaign spent over $34 million between Jan 1, 2023 and the end of June 2024
I think they planned jow to withdraw when it was too late for Kamala to have to face a primary challenge, specifically so she could remain hidden at all times


47 posted on 08/14/2024 12:36:53 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Lazamataz

“End Citizens United”?
Perfectly appropriate name for a Democratic group.


48 posted on 08/14/2024 12:37:16 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Lazamataz

A man who all the cabinet members of the United States apparently consider competent to be President of the United States had his campaign for reelection financially snuffed out by about ten rich donors, probably all white males.

Campaign finance law is a joke. The Supreme Court needs to entirely cleanse our law books of such Amendment I offending rubbish.


49 posted on 08/14/2024 12:37:44 PM PDT by Brian Griffin ("The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof" - Elon Musk)
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To: Lazamataz

END CITIZENS UNITED SAYS IT ALL


50 posted on 08/14/2024 12:38:18 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Lazamataz

What about NPR (which is partially publicly funded) and their campaign contributions to the Harris campaign?

Fake Fact Check of Trumps news conference:
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference

Walz a financial genius:
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/08/13/g-s1-16662/the-economic-mind-of-tim-walz

Harris/Watz brings Fun back:
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/nx-s1-5060012/kamala-harris-tim-walz-campaign-democrats


51 posted on 08/14/2024 12:39:00 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: Lazamataz
Meanwhile, just about every news report on the Harris "campaign" is an illegal in-kind campaign contribution by the MSM.

The Dems are now openly using the law to silence political opposition.

52 posted on 08/14/2024 12:40:24 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Jane Long; bitt; thinden; RitaOK

The media is an arm of the Democrat party.
Musk is a private entrepreneur and took the media to the woodshed...times a billion...at almost NO cost to his business.

In the same “space”, Musk elevated ALL of social media into an electronic public square.

Of course the Communists want that ‘outlet’ shut down.


53 posted on 08/14/2024 12:43:36 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: Lazamataz
They should sue the Federal Trade Commission for siding with K mala
54 posted on 08/14/2024 12:44:28 PM PDT by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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To: Fuzz

Who cares. We all know you are a Concern troll.


55 posted on 08/14/2024 12:46:36 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: Lazamataz

What about them hacking Google headlines?
Telling us Biden was sharp as a tack?
The woman won’t even take an interview.


56 posted on 08/14/2024 12:47:20 PM PDT by just me (Trade your liberty for temporary safety. I will keep mine. My family doesn't fly a white flag.)
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To: Lazamataz

(a) Musk invited Harris. She declined.

(b) Just more lawfare.


57 posted on 08/14/2024 12:47:38 PM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Of course the Communists want that ‘outlet’ shut down.


They can’t have the TRUTH getting out.


58 posted on 08/14/2024 12:49:32 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: glennaro; poconopundit; SunkenCiv; Liz

Government goons need to go after the New York Times and Washington Post for ‘in kind’ donations to the democrat party.

Just because they call themselves ‘newspapers’ doesn’t mean they are newspapers.

If George Soros wanted to print a screed to send out to voters and he put the word ‘Newspaper’ at the top it wouldn’t make it a ‘newspaper’ or any less a political donation to the democrat party...


59 posted on 08/14/2024 12:50:50 PM PDT by GOPJ (Kamala kisses up and punches down - cgbg * Walz put tampon dispensers in boys bathrooms...)
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To: Lazamataz

So just bill Trump’s campaign $10 for the air time.

Fixed...


60 posted on 08/14/2024 12:53:03 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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