Read the FEC Complaint a Liberal Group Filed Against Trump

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Once he made the personal determination to develop into a candidate, Mr. Trump was obligated to file a Statement of Candidacy with the Commission inside 15 days of receiving contributions or making expenditures of greater than $5,000 to affect his election, both straight or by way of third events. 26 This Statement of Candidacy has not but been filed. Yet, subsequent to a number of of his public remarks about a 2024 candidacy, Mr. Trump’s management committee, Save America, has spent greater than $100,000 per week on Facebook advertisements and has constantly raised greater than $1 million per week.27 Save America’s advertisements are clearly an try to affect Mr. Trump’s election to federal workplace in 2024.28 Commission laws specify that a person turns into a federal candidate when he has 1) consented to expenditures past $5,000 on his behalf, and a couple of) these expenditures have been made.29 Because he sponsors Save America, Donald Trump has consented to Save America’s expenditures on his behalf, which significantly exceed $5,000, and thus he has develop into a federal candidate. ³

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Google Transparency Report, Save America Joint Fundraising Committee (Feb. 9, 2022, 3:30 P.M.), https://transparencyreport.google.com/political

advertisements/advertiser/AR386358112438714368/inventive/CR536153033986277376 (“Biden has turned his again on America, and fully failed the American folks. Biden is Weak. We all understand it.”). 26 52 U.S.C. § 30101(2)(B); 11 C.F.R. § 100.3(a).

27 Michael Scherer & Josh Dawsey, Trump Looks To 2024, Commanding a Fundraising Juggernaut, as He Skirts Social Media Bans, WASH. POST (Oct. 30, 2021, 6:00 AM),

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-fundraising/2021/10/29/5b5a2e64-31b1-11ec-ale5

07223c50280a_story.html.

28 Kayla Gogarty, Facebook Is Letting Trump’s PAC Run Ads Implying He Is The “True President”, MEDIA MATTERS (Oct. 4, 2021, 3:10 PM), https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/facebook-letting-trumps-pac-runads-implying-he-true-president (“Our newest research has discovered that Trump’s PAC has created over 1,600 advertisements since we final reported in August. Among these new advertisements, 186 pushed election misinformation, 322 had been about Trump’s September rally in Georgia, and 139 had been about Trump’s October rally in Iowa.”).

11 C.F.R. § 100.3(a)(2).

30 See, e.g., Jason Lange & Alexandra Ulmer, Trump Fundraising Slows however Still Yields Over $100 Million in Cash, REUTERS (Feb. 1, 2022, 1:55 AM), https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-fundraising-groups-haveover-122-mln-cash-2022-01-31/ (“Trump is spending giant sums to carry political rallies that ostensibly assist Republican candidates however which function his personal speeches as the important occasion.”).

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