Remember? Trump campaign solicits illegal foreign donations despite warnings
Foreign members of parliament from the United Kingdom and Australia confirmed to The Hill that they received fundraising solicitations from the Trump campaign as recently as July 12 two weeks after a widely publicized Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint issued on June 29 by nonpartisan watchdogs Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center.
These latest campaign finance violations were first reported by the investigative website WhoWhatWhy and have been confirmed by The Hill.
The Trump campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Terri Butler, a progressive Parliament member in Australia, told The Hill in a telephone interview Friday night that she was surprised to continue receiving fundraising solicitations from the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's campaign at her official government email address.
She shared several of these emails, including one dated July 12 asking her to make a "generous contribution" to the Trump campaign.
Butler says she has no idea how her government email ended up on the Trump fundraising list.
"I haven't signed up to any Trump lists," she said.
Federal law on foreign money in campaigns is black and white, campaign finance lawyers on both sides of the political divide say
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