Did the Trump campaign break campaign laws by coordinating with Trump's nonprofit foundation?

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Did the Trump campaign break campaign laws by coordinating with Trump's nonprofit foundation?

by Hunter at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/10/1482491/-Did-the-Trump-campaign-break-campaign-laws-by-coordinating-with-Trump-s-nonprofit-foundation

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On Friday, Liberty House executive director Keith Howard received a call from a Trump campaign staffer, who conveyed that Trump would like to publicly present them with a six-figure check at a Londonderry rally on Monday, right before the Granite State primary.

Liberty House is one of the veterans' charity groups chosen to benefit from Trump's rally for veterans, the event staged to compete with the Fox News debate that Trump boycotted over Megyn Kelly's perceived rudeness to his royal Trumpness. The problem is that the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a charity, is ostensibly supposed to be a different beast from the Donald J. Trump political campaign. They’re supposed to stay at arm’s length.

“The campaign utilizing the foundation to help support and promote campaign events is a potential legal problem for both the campaign and the Trump Foundation,” said Larry Noble, general counsel at the Campaign Legal Center.

The value of the work the foundation did to assist the campaign event could be considered an illegal campaign contribution. And the foundation is barred from getting involved in political activity, such as supporting a campaign rally, he continued. “Neither the foundation nor other charities should be working hand-in-hand with the campaign to promote Trump’s campaign events.”



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It's OK when it's a Republican.

His supporters won't care. They think breaking the law is what 'smart' people do.