Feds Fine Hillary Clinton Campaign and DNC For Falsely Claiming Opposition Research (i.e. the Steele Dossier) Funding Was Just "Legal Bills"
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has announced that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) will be fined a total of $113,000 dollars for falsely claiming that they were paying legal bills to the Clinton campaign law firm, when in fact they were funding opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump. This research became the Steele dossier, which has been proven false. They tried to hide this from voters and the federal government in 2016, and now in 2022 they are finally being forced to admit to their deception.
ACLJ Chief Counsel and my dad Jay Sekulow explained this hypocrisy:
Remember, this was the basis upon which Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court documents were submitted. The actual report here, the Steele dossier, which is where this all came out of, was the basis upon which FISA warrants were sought and ultimately issued even though the FBI knew at the time that the information contained in those reports were really suspect. Now, this is the first admission we have . . . more than two years after the investigation commenced by Bob Mueller. This relates to the Bob Mueller investigation. We said at the outset in that representation of the President that this whole Steele dossier issue was a smoke screen. It wasn’t real information. . . . Well, now we know this entire event as we suggested arrived out of the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign, who instead of listing it as it was – opposition research – decided instead that they would call it “legal fees,” that they would hide it. Remember, the information was not reliable. The FISA court admonished the government for abusing the system. An FBI attorney changed the wording in an email in order to obtain a FISA warrant on an American citizen. This is why this is again an outrage, and the fining is one thing . . . but what is more important here is that it actually happened.
While it is critical that we get to the bottom of this, the ACLJ is also taking action on another important global issue right now – the issue of human trafficking. We have just filed Universal Periodic Reviews on 14 countries this morning looking for mainly any religious violations, human trafficking, and protection of life issues.
ACLJ Senior Counsel CeCe Heil explained the plague of human trafficking:
Out of the 14 countries that were in the review period this session, four of them we focused on human trafficking issues. I truly don’t believe that there is any member state out of the 193 member states at the U.N. . . . that doesn’t have an issue with human trafficking including the United States. . . . It is children. We have examples of an 8-year-old being taken and having to work as a slave in a household until she was 40 years old. I mean, they keep them for a long time in some of these countries. . . . It is problematic in every single member state.
CeCe summed it up:
Human trafficking is a blight on the world, not just a specific country.
Additionally, while we are fighting against human trafficking all around the world, it’s happening at our very own border. Yet the Biden Administration is going to get rid of Title 42 protection program at the end of May and open the door for more cartels and even more human trafficking.
Congressman Jim Jordan (OH-4) joined Sekulow to give his take on why the Biden Administration would do this:
What we do know now is there is no other way to interpret this other than this is intentional. I said a year ago, a year ago in March we had the highest month on record for illegal crossings of migrants, until the month of April, and then April was the highest month until May, and then May was the highest month until June, and then June was the highest month until July. I mean 2 million in a one-year time and now they are going to take away something that helped us stop people and actually have something of a presence on the border to limit the 2 million. And they are going to take that Title 42 away. So, it is intentional and deliberate and makes absolutely no sense. But everything the Biden Administration has done makes no sense. And it’s why everything is a mess. It’s why they’ve got 63% of the country that thinks they are on the wrong track. I kind of want to meet the 37% that do, because who are these people that think anything is going right?
Rep. Jordan added:
Here’s the takeaway I have too, it’s almost like you want to ask the Administration well which is it? Because on one hand, you said you want to spend $22 billion more dollars of . . . Joe Biden wants $22 billion more dollars of American taxpayer money for COVID. Because we are concerned about COVID, and then at the same time, we are going to get rid of Title 42, because no, COVID is not a big deal. Because Title 42 is because of a health issue, you can just stop people from coming in. You can’t have it both ways, but this is just again typical Left-wing baloney from the Biden Administration.
We will continue to push back against this Administration’s political agenda and provide you with updates on these cases as they happen.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast is complete with even more analysis of the FEC fining the DNC and the Clinton campaign, as well as the Biden Administration getting rid of Title 42.
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