Trump may have violated campaign laws by using private employee to write Melania’s speech: report

[Doctor Jack]

Source: Raw Story

According to the Washington Post, it may have been a violation of campaign finance laws for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump to use private corporate resources to write a campaign speech.

According to the Post, Meredith McIver, 65, is a full-time employee of the Trump Organization and not a paid campaign staffer. She took responsibility for lifting two passages from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech for Melania Trump’s highly-anticipated Monday night speech.

“On the face of it, this looks like a corporate violation,” Lawrence Noble, general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, told the Post. That is “a violation of federal law. It can result in civil penalties to the corporation and the campaign.”

It’s a criminal offense if the campaign used private resources “willingly and knowingly,” the Post reports.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/trump-may-have-violated-campaign-laws-by-using-private-employee-to-write-melanias-speech-report/

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Trump doing something incompetent/illegal? Color me shocked

[geek tragedy]

1. My guess is she had nothing to do with it and is serving as the fall person

because no one working for the campaign is willing to fall on their sword

[Doctor Jack]

5. "She'll take the fall and this episode will be over....and we broke federal law"

Oops!

[unblock]

2. ROFL! he can't even plagiarize legally!

[lark]

3. Hang him high!!

I'm shocked too, I tell you, shocked!!!!

Actually, what would shock me a hell of a lot more would be him obeying the rules or telling the truth, but that doesn't happen.

[olddad56]

4. after living through the Bush regime, I know that the GOP candidate is immune from prosecution.

[George II]

6. When treasurer, I had a guy who made 50 copies of a flyer on his office copier...

...for our candidate. I insisted that he accept $0.20 a page and let him square it with his employer. One just doesn't do stuff like that, or what Trump's campaign says she did.

[Ilsa]

7. This campaign is INCOMPETENT. nt

[maxsolomon]

8. IOKIYAR

Trump will:
1. attack the questioner for being unfair to him
2. feign ignorance of the rules due to his "outsider" status
3. say "oops" and make his naughty little boy face

[Mendocino]

9. #4

Blame Hillary and/or Obama

[Motley13]

11. They did blame Hillary

http://trofire.com/2016/07/19/trump-camp-says-hillary-clinton-blame-melanias-stolen-speech/




He did not explain how

[63splitwindow]

15. For what turns out to be, in fact, plagiarism. This will come in very handy later. nt

[turbinetree]

10. What else is not new, every time you turn around its something else they do---------------

like Trump U, for example.

Its like this is his business model on everything, stiff everyone and hope he doesn't get caught, and then have some plagiarist material, being presented by his wife, that either could or should have been

(A) research what was being said, like being vetted

(B) didn't ask any questions, so that it passed the vetted process

(C) thought the teleprompter was a camera shot to look like a first lady, well she failed all three, and she is in the inner circle on the vetting

(D) none of the above

And he's allowed to have a business, he is allowed to present a business plan to the State of New York or wherever he operates and he turns right around and breaks the law----------------if I, or you, were to do this, we, I , you would be jail----------------tell me what I am missing here.




Honk----------------for a political revolution Bernie

[63splitwindow]

12. Is there any law a Don the Con administration wouldn't break on purpose or accidentally? nt

[reACTIONary]

14. "Accidentally on Purpose" nt

[red dog 1]

13. K&R

If it is, indeed, a violation of Campaign Finance laws, then let the cards fall where they may.
..at the feet of Trump the Chump! ("The buck stops here" Donald)