Former President Trump’s campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Tuesday, accusing President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of violating campaign finance laws by transferring $91 million of former President Trump’s funds to Harris’ new campaign.
Biden withdrew from the presidential race on Sunday after weeks of calls for him to withdraw following his shaky debate performances.
The president endorsed his vice president to run as the Democratic nominee in his place and gave her millions of dollars in campaign funds.
In the complaint, first reported by The New York Times and obtained by Fox News Digital, the Trump campaign claims that Harris is “attempting to extort $91.5 million from Joe Biden’s remaining campaign funds.”
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Former President Trump’s campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, accusing President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of violating campaign finance laws by transferring $91 million of former President Trump’s funds to VP Harris’ new campaign. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images, Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
David Warrington, general counsel for the Trump campaign, called the move “a brazen financial scheme that constitutes the largest overcontribution and the largest violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 in the history of the country.”
“Kamala Harris is committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history, and is doing so using the Committee’s own documents,” the filing concludes. “The Committee cannot stand by and watch one candidate accept nearly $100 million from another candidate’s nominating committee, and against the wishes of the donors who provided the funds in the first place.”
The complaint states that Biden, Harris, “Candidate for President Biden (aka Candidate for President Harris), and Treasurer Keena Spencer egregiously violated this law by making and receiving nearly $100 million in excessive contributions and by submitting false documents to the Committee purporting to repurpose one candidate’s primary campaign committee for another candidate’s benefit.”
President Biden has endorsed Vice President Harris to run as the Democratic nominee in his place and has transferred millions of dollars of his own campaign funds to her. (Brendan Smiarowski/AFP via Getty Images)
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The lawsuit alleges, “If Kamala Harris was a candidate for anything in 2024, federal law requires that she file a statement of candidacy and that her name appear on her accreditation committee. However, Kamala Harris’ name does not appear on the name of her purportedly accredited committee, ‘Biden for President,’ and no statement of candidacy existed for her until Sunday. And on Sunday, instead of filing her own statement of candidacy, she simply changed it to replace Joe Biden’s name with her own. There is no mechanism under the law for one individual to terminate another person’s federal candidacy by merely amending that other person’s Form 2. Moreover, in that purportedly amended Form 2, Harris designated ‘Biden for President’ as her primary campaign committee, then changed the name. Altering documents filed with a federal agency violates 18 U.S.C. § 1519.3.”
The Harris campaign told Fox News Digital the complaints are “without merit.”
David Warrington, general counsel for the Trump campaign, called the move “a brazen financial scheme that constitutes the largest overcontribution and the largest violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 in the history of the country.” (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Team Harris continues to build out its 250+ coalition offices and 1,300+ coalition staff across battleground states, just as it launched this week with $240 million in cash, raised $100 million in the first 36 hours, and enrolled 58,000 volunteers,” the statement said.
“Republicans may be jealous of Democrats’ determination to defeat Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, but their baseless legal claims, like their longstanding attempts to suppress the vote and steal the election, will only distract them until we can recruit volunteers, talk to voters, and win this election.”
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Harris’ team has raised more than $100 million since Biden withdrew on Sunday and Harris announced her candidacy, breaking records after Biden felt most of his fundraising dried up after the tough June 27 debate.
In her first speech since Biden’s withdrawal, Harris told Biden campaign staff on Monday that she needed the team to stay on to keep the campaign going with just over 100 days until the Nov. 5 election.
