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Trump Files FEC Complaint Over Labour Party for Foreign ‘Election Interference’ – HotAir

Does Donald Trump have a case? Perhaps he has a political case, especially given the Democrats’ hyperventilation about foreign interference by Russia in 2016 and again earlier this year. And, as Politico concedes this afternoon, Keir Starmer’s party may have crossed a legal line this time as well. 

The Labour Party in the UK facilitates its activists in traveling to the US to assist Democrats on a fairly routine basis, as it turns out. Normally, their involvement remains limited to helping to make connections for volunteers with Americans willing to assist. This time, the Trump campaign alleges, it amounts to in-kind contributions from foreign sources, forbidden by American election law, organized by Labour’s Head of Operations Sofia Patel:

The Washington Post reports, “[s]trategists linked to Britain’s Labour Party have been offering advice to Kamala Harris about how to earn…

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