Trump And The NRA Busted For Illegal Coordination
Documents show that the Trump campaign and the NRA illegally coordinated their advertising during the 2016 election.
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Reporting by The Trace shows that the NRA and the Trump campaign employed the same operation — at times, the exact same people — to craft and execute their advertising strategies for the 2016 presidential election. The investigation, which involved a review of more than 1,000 pages of Federal Communications Commission and Federal Election Commission documents, found multiple instances in which National Media, through its affiliates Red Eagle and AMAG, executed ad buys for Trump and the NRA that seemed coordinated to enhance each other.
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Who would ever have thunk it.
I'm shocked!
Shocked, I tell you!
NRA = National Russian Association
The Trace is a blatantly leftist leaning rag owned by none other than Michael Blomberg. That speaks volumes in itself since he himself is virulently anti-gun in nature! Hardly a source of non biased and fair editorials regarding reasonable gun control.
Here is a link to the law they supposedly violated:
11 CFR 109.21 - What is a “coordinated communication”?
Looks pretty complicated. I'll bet people violate this one all the time. At worst, expect some minor fine.
I don't know if it has been challenged in court, but it's hard not to imagine that a restriction on communication would be a violation of the 1st Amendment.
You make the claim, you need to prove the claim. Otherwise your "opinion" is worth squat.
Why? Does it seem controversial to you? Election law is pretty damned complicated and various and sundry codes get violated quite a bit. Obama's team even got busted.
Even "squat" seems a few steps up from what you have offered so far.
Aren't most RICO cases based on communications & coordination of efforts?
Yes, but they are directed at coordinating criminal activities. On it's surface, organizing a campaign strategy doesn't strike me as obviously criminal.
And you know all that because of?
Because I followed links in your seed.
The first link took me to the original story at The Trace.
Way down in that story, they get into the specifics of the violations, which linked to this Federal Elections Commission site. That page sites specific codes, one of which I linked above.
Something wrong with trying to understand what the alleged violations are?
I'll bet that doesn't make it legal.
No, of course not. I am wondering if it has been challenged yet. I think the code I linked above dates to 2001 or '03, I forget which. I know similar laws have been struck down, but maybe this one is ok.
This is another nothing burger that is laughable to most Americans. Only the left with their love of massive government control would even believe something like this should be law
I have to giggle at all your comments like this. You always blame the Left. Seems to me you need to leave Fox and Fools out of your life.
Why is it when Trump may be breaking the law, his base calls it nothing burgers. Yet y'all are still chanting "Lock her up!" in regards to the email thing, the same thing his own freaking gf/daughter just got called out over.
How many Emails has Ivanka failed to turn over?
How many government relate Emails has she erased and destroyed?
How many classified Email does she have?
Hillary commuted illegal acts concerning those issues and others, so no, Ivanka is not accused of the same thing.
Don't know, no Republicans are demanding answers to that.
According to her, none. Same as Hillary.
Again, according to her, none. Same answer Hillary gave.
What illegal acts, where are the charges?
But YOU ARE correct, Ivanka IS NOT accused of the same thing because the Republicans choose not to....wonder why? Democrats have already signaled that Ivanka's emails will be one of the things they look at after they take over the House.
Hillary lied. .
Prove it.
Neither the Republicans or the FBI could show that she lied after multiple investigations.
The NRA also had a Russian operative.
So the NRA is involved with, basically, a Russian spy and involved with a senior member of the Russian central bank. They are under investigation for money laundering.
The NRA (republicans) take Russian money, had a Russian spy and wanted a secret line to the Kremlin.
And all the republicans can say is, it's nothing. They need to investigate Hillary's emails.
Anything to make an extra buck. Regardless of the legality. Greed knows no bounds. When will right wingers start waking up to how badly they have been used by a massive lobbyist organization for profit?