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The Federal Election Commission hit both Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee with fines over lying about the funding of the fake Russian dossier used to smear and discredit former President Donald Trump just before his stunning 2016 presidential victory.
The Washington Examiner broke the story after receiving a letter obtained by the Coolidge Reagan Foundation showing that the DNC was fined $105,000 and the Clinton campaign was fined $8,000.
The FEC asserts in the letter that Clinton and the DNC violated strict rules when they mislabeled payments that were sent to Fusion GPS, the consulting firm that commissioned the now-debunked dossier via their law firm.
The law firm Perkins Coie was paid $1,024,407.97 by the two entities for the dossier. Clinton’s campaign and the DNC claimed the expenditures were for legal services, failing to mention it was actually for opposition research. The DNC forked over $849,407.97 while the Clinton campaign paid $175,000, according to the Washington Examiner.
BREAKING: The FEC has fined the DNC & Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the fake, and discredited, Russian “dossier” used to smear President Trump weeks before his 2016 victory.
It’s time to investigate and charge Hillary Clinton. #LockHerUp
— Cory Mills (@CoryMillsFL) March 30, 2022
Ignore the amount Hillary Clinton has been fined by the FEC for, the fact that they did it is enough reason for Trump to win his historic lawsuit and I imagine this fuels more Durham indictments very soon. It's all going to come together
— George (@BehizyTweets) March 30, 2022
Both entities contended that the description of payments for “legal advice and services” was correct because it was their law firm that hired Fusion GPS. However, that argument appears specious as they did so at the behest of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. The lawyers also argued that Fusion GPS’ research was protected under attorney-client privilege. The FEC ruled that the law is clear and was definitely violated.
In a political two-step concerning the FEC’s ruling, the Clinton campaign and DNC have not admitted to lying but they also won’t contest the finding.
“Solely for the purpose of settling this matter expeditiously and to avoid further legal costs, respondent[s] does not concede, but will not further contest the commission’s finding of probable cause to proceed” with the probe, the FEC noted.
H Clinton &DNC used campaign $$ to pay lawyers to launder Russian disinfo to DOJ to smear Trump. I asked about Fusion GPS the DNC +Clinton Camp back in '17 but liberal media didnt take seriously Now 5yrs later FEC finally fined Clinton & DNC bc they undermined election +BROKE LAW
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 30, 2022
The FEC just fined the DNC and Clinton campaign for the phony Steele Dossier hoax
So after 5 years of Russia, Russia Russia by the MSM the only real Russia collusion was committed by Crooked Hillary— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) March 30, 2022
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed a complaint three years ago with the FEC over the matter. The resultant memo will be made public in 30 days. The Campaign Legal Center also filed a complaint, according to Politico.
“This may well be the first time that Hillary Clinton — one of the most evidently corrupt politicians in American history — has actually been held legally accountable, and I’m proud to have forced the FEC to do their job for once. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation proved that with pluck and grit, Americans who stand with integrity can stand up to the Clinton machine and other corrupt political elites,” founder and president of the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, Dan Becker, stated.
Becker is also an attorney with Washington’s Chalmers & Adams law firm. He is looking to go after Clinton even further.
“Hillary Clinton and her cronies willfully engaged in the greatest political fraud in history — destroying our nation’s faith in the electoral process, and it’s high time they were held accountable. I hope this is only the beginning,” he remarked.
Fec by Paul Bedard
Trump said that the FEC ruling confirmed his belief that Clinton and the DNC falsely accused and smeared him and his campaign.
“Wow! Just out that the 2016 Clinton Campaign and the DNC paid the FEC today for violating the law by failing to disclose that their payments for ‘legal advice and services’ to law firm Perkins Coie was, in fact, a guise to hire numerous companies, all of whom are now named Defendants in my lawsuit, to try and take down and illegally destroy your favorite President, me,” he proclaimed in a statement.
“This was done to create, as I have stated many times, and is now confirmed, a Hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign. This corruption is only beginning to be revealed, is un-American, and must never be allowed to happen again. Where do I go to get my reputation back?” Trump added.
NEW!
President Donald J. Trump:
“Breaking News: Wow! Just out that the 2016 Clinton Campaign and the DNC paid the FEC today for violating the law by failing to disclose that their payments for “legal advice and services” to law firm Perkins Coie was, in fact, a guise to hire… pic.twitter.com/ueFF8pPoRM
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 30, 2022
“We settled aging and silly complaints from the 2016 election about ‘purpose descriptions’ in our FEC report,” the DNC responded in a statement.
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23 thoughts on “FEC fines Hillary Clinton, DNC over using campaign funds for Russian hoax false Trump smear”
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Hellary and her husband, and all associates that help with the deceit, lies, fraud, and illegal activities, should be in prison for crimes against America.
a slap on the wrist fine but no jail time? SMFH
Just a start. If someone just takes the time they will find enough to put her away. She has been corrupt her whole career from the first time she was fired. She piled up so much corruption it is hard to know where to start. Maybe this guy will be the one.
Nothing will come out of Hillary Clintons own pocket. It will be paid by tax payers to the fec and then disappear. My question is why a fine when it’s a federal crime to misappropriated campaign funds.Just saying
Nothing will come out of Hillary Clintons own pocket. It will be paid by tax payers to the fec and then disappear. Just saying
Agree with all commenters on this article. The FEC will probably recirculate the money back to the DNC somehow.
What a joke. She will just take the money out of the Clinton Foundation and let those donor saps pay for it. It’s peanuts so it won’t raise any red flags with the IRS. Actually it wouldn’t even if it was $10 million.
The article states the Hillary Clinton Campaign was fined, not Hellary. And $8,000???? Beer money.
Both parties should each be made to pay 10 times the total amount that was paid to Perkins Coie. Then to really make the democrats mad. The $20.4 million dollars goes directly into the finishing of the southern border wall.
Pfffff! This is peanuts based on the amount of money they having illegitimately taken over the years. Let’s see real change, like pulling the Pulitzer from those that were pushing this farce of “information”. Let’s charge those 51 intelligence(yeah right) officers that signed the paper saying it was Russian disinformation. Let’s charge Comey for signing FISA warrants based on a LIE.
Despite the damage she has done., the POS will never be president. Her last thought in this life will be that she lost to Trump.
Surprised, I thought they would wait till 2040 to fine her.
Hitlery fine is missing quite a few zeros but hopefully this is the beginning of the end for this wench
Ohhhh! They slapped her hand!
That must’ve hurt.
Big whoop. $8000 fine for Hilary’s campaign and $105K to the DNC. They rake in 100’s of millions from BLM and unions. Crooked Hilary and Bill restarted their corrupt foundation upon the rumors she’ll run again to get all the dark money that will disappear. And yet, Hilary went right back to tweeting false information.
Or corrupt media refuses to report on all the collusion and corruption by the Hillary campaign and Obama administration-which was also up to it’s neck in the Russian hoax. Or media is just like the Russian media-propaganda only-not the truth. By the way – this new comment format really sucks BIZPAC and the censorship is just like the liberal outlets
CROOKED hILLARY rides the broom again! Broom hilde!
This is the gov trying to whitewash. Fire the officials.
Those fines were next to meaningless. Criminal charges should have been made against the Hillary campaign manager, Hillary and the head of the DNC and anyone else involved!!
Coming attractions: Great evidence for Trump’s lawyers to use in his lawsuit. Durham is still investigating. Once again, Trump was right.
Trump never gives up and he never looses and these DC crooks named on his lawsuit know that.
IMO, she needs to be charged and tried before a judge who isn’t in the soup for the democrats. Fine wasn’t enough, IMO. We need some honest judges, not judges put on the bench to ignore democrat crimes.
Thats not even a slap on the hand . Its more like a pat on the azz. Ewe! Either way is disgusting. How many millions of dollars of tax money was spent because of this BIOTCH! To hell with the F.E.C. .Sounds like they need to be investigated also. Just another federal joggernaut.