The Tale of Two Campaign Finance Violations: Clinton Paid a Fine, Trump Was Arrested
The prosecution of former President Donald Trump in New York stands out as an anomaly–and that’s not just because the defendant is the first ex-U.S. president ever to face a criminal indictment.
It’s a historic case fraught with concerns over legal sufficiency and political animus against Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Many people are trying to understand how a financial-misclassification case against a federal candidate generated criminal charges in a state courtroom.
Such cases against federal candidates typically come from the U.S. Department of Justice, sometimes via referral from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Bradley Smith, a former FEC chair, told The Epoch Times….