Federal Court Rules Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Violated FEC Rules

A Federal Appeals Court has ruled Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and a Democrat super PAC violated federal election laws.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Clinton’s campaign and the PAC Correct the Record incorrectly used
“An internet exemption to sidestep other restrictions to set up a Benghazi Hearing War Room and conduct a witch hunt of critics without reporting it as a campaign expense.”

The court stated, “We hold that the Commission acted contrary to law in dismissing the complaint.”

The decision by the court did not include a punishment for Clinton or the super PAC.

BREAKING: A Court has just ruled that Hillary Clinton has violated FEC laws, resulting in a $6 Million dollar fine. pic.twitter.com/4AFxqR0kFp

— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) July 12, 2024

Court Just Nailed Hillary for FEC Violation 45x Bigger Than Trump's $130k So-Called Violation

Further, in 2022 the Clinton campaign/DNC agreed to pay $113K for alleged FEC violation re: funding the Steele dossier.

Fine for Clinton; Trial for Trump. https://t.co/8SOrmlItx2

— Randy DeSoto (@RandyDeSoto) July 11, 2024

Here’s what the Washington Examiner reported:

A federal appeals court today said Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and a liberal super PAC crossed federal election lines when they flaunted their coordination in a multimillion-dollar effort to defend the Democrat in her losing bid against Donald Trump.

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In the landmark decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Clinton and the super PAC Correct the Record improperly used an “internet exemption” to sidestep other restrictions to set up a “Benghazi Hearing War Room” and conduct a witch hunt of critics without reporting it as a campaign expense.

Neither Clinton nor Correct the Record founder David Brock will be punished under the 36-page decision that instead scolded the Federal Election Commission for not investigating a complaint about the spending. It sent the case to the FEC to fix the exemption.

“We hold that the Commission acted contrary to law in dismissing the complaint. Because we conclude that the internet exemption cannot be read to exempt from disclosure those expenditures that are only tangentially related to an eventual internet message or post, the Commission’s reading of the internet exemption stretches it beyond lawful limits,” the court said.

This may be the first time anyone has reported on staggering size of the Clinton violation compared to the paltry alleged Trump violation. https://t.co/6Qxs7tHfTc

— Conservative Tribune (@conserv_tribune) July 11, 2024

Per The Western Journal:

The Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign and an affiliated super PAC violated federal election law in spending that totaled close to $6 million.

The amount in question is more than 45 times the $130,000 a Manhattan court convicted former President Donald Trump of misreporting in business records during the same 2016 campaign.

It should be noted that the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department looked at the payments Trump made through his personal attorney at the time, Michael Cohen, to adult film star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement and declined to prosecute him.