Staff Reports
A member of the Federal Election Commission went to Congress and said that the Manhattan district attorney who led the case against former President Donald Trump went too far. The member, Trey Trainor, who was chosen by Trump, expressed his concern during a hearing that District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, used a federal election campaign law in his charges against Trump, which was not appropriate.
It was shared that Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records, which means making false records, and according to the charge, Trump also violated New York election law. The district attorney presented three options for how Trump may have broken the law, one of them being that he violated the Federal Election Campaign Act. The jury did not have to agree on which option they chose for Trump to be found guilty.
Holy Shamoly Batman! Watch as the FEC commissioner absolutely DESTROYS the Biden DOJ's decision not to intervene in Bragg's Trump case.
Bragg ‘usurped’ federal law to charge Trump, FEC commissioner says https://t.co/KXZGUTqzgd via @YouTube
— American Woman (@AmericanFWoman) June 14, 2024
Bragg claimed that Trump violated FECA because of a $130,000 payment to a person involved in adult films in 2016, which was a major part of Trump’s charges. Trump’s former lawyer made the payment to the person from his own money before the 2016 election to keep the person quiet about an alleged affair with Trump. According to the evidence in Bragg’s case, Trump then included a reimbursement for the payment into payments the Trump Organization made to the lawyer in 2017.
Trump and his defense team said that the payment was lawful and that it was correctly reported in the company’s financial statements as “legal expenses.”
Trainor pointed out that the Department of Justice had looked into the payment and decided not to prosecute Trump. He said that the FEC also did not address the payment because it was past the time limit for taking legal action.
Trainor believed that Bragg’s prosecution was problematic, and he interfered in federal jurisdiction. A judge in charge of criminal cases in Manhattan for about 27 years also mentioned that Trump could argue on appeal that New York courts do not have the power to prosecute a case with a federal crime involved.
Bragg plans to speak about the concerns about the case at another hearing before Congress on July 12, after Trump’s sentencing hearing on July 11.
