Donald Trumps White House Counsel Is Proud Architect of Americas Corrupt Big Money Politics
Donald Trump’s White House Counsel Is Proud “Architect” of America’s Corrupt Big Money Politics
Jon Schwarz
December 4 2016, 9:34 a.m.
DON MCGAHN, SOON to be Donald Trump’s White House counsel, bears as much responsibility as any single person for turning America’s campaign finance system into something akin to a gigantic, clogged septic tank.
From 2008 to 2013, McGahn was one of the six members of the Federal Election Commission, the government agency in charge of civil enforcement of campaign finance laws. While there, he led a GOP campaign that essentially ground enforcement of election laws to a halt.
“I’ve always thought of McGahn’s appointment as an FEC commissioner as analogous to appointing an anarchist to be chief of police,” said Paul S. Ryan, vice president at Common Cause. “He’s largely responsible for destroying the FEC as a functioning law enforcement agency, and seemingly takes great pride in this fact. McGahn has demonstrated a much stronger interest in expanding the money-in-politics swamp than draining it.”
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McGahn also attempted to prevent the FEC’s staff from doing something it had done as a matter of course in the past: respond to requests for internal records from the Justice Department, which is responsible for criminal prosecution of campaign finance crimes, without formal approval from the commissioners. “He just did not want us to have a more cooperative relationship with the Justice Department,” Weintraub said...
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Don McGahn
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Federal Election Commission
McGahn was considered for the Federal Election Commission in 2005, but was passed over due to difficulty replacing him at the NRCC and
worries about his former work as ethics lawyer for Congressman DeLay.{9}
George W. Bush nominated McGahn as a Republican-selected member of the Federal Election Commission in 2008. He was confirmed on June 24, 2008 by the United States Senate and was sworn in shortly thereafter. He is credited as having played a crucial role in loosening regulations on campaign spending.[10][11] In 2013, McGahn advocated for rules that would require FEC approval for its staffers to share information with federal prosecutors.{12} Critics of the proposed rule said it would interfere with the FEC and Justice Department prosecutions of election violations. McGahn resigned from the FEC in September 2013.{13}...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn#Federal_Election_Commission
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