Lawmakers in Scotland and elsewhere received fundraising emails from the Trump campaign.
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Journalists, who are fascinated by fundraising totals and are forever stressing their importance in terms of judging campaign strength, were gobsmacked to learn Trump has just over $1 million in his campaign coffers after raising just $3.1 million in May.
“This is the first fundraising email I have ever sent on behalf of my campaign”.
Two good-government organizations filed a joint complaint against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign Wednesday, alleging that Trump violated federal election law by soliciting campaign donations from foreign nationals.
Brendan Fischer, associate council with the Campaign Legal Center, said the statute is explicit and he couldn’t recall any previous incident of a candidate running afoul of the rule relating to foreign nationals.
Also on June 22, 2016, Iceland Magazine reported that “Trump sent out his first fundraising email yesterday, among its recipients were a number of Icelandic MPs”. “So we’ve been doing project work for them and we’re going to hopefully keep doing stuff for them in the future”.
Restaurant executive Andy Puzder, who donated to Romney’s super PAC during the 2012 campaign and to super PACs backing Bush, Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio in this election, contributed more than $69,000 on May 25 to the RNC via Trump Victory, Federal Election Commission records show.
“Trump for President has knowingly and illegally solicited contributions from foreign nationals”, the complaint reads in part, pointing out that “a reasonable person would have inquired whether these individuals were foreign nationals, or concluded that there is a substantial probability that these were foreign nationals”.
For Trump, that would mean re-categorizing the $45.7 million in loans from his most recent report, plus any more of his spending, as candidate donations.
The mogul is trying to build out his once-lean campaign operation with experienced hands.
Sir Roger Gale appealed to the Speaker of the Commons to help to block the “intemperate spam”.
One from this week that he shared with The Washington Post was signed by Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr. “Even the left wing ones”, he wrote, followed by “#ImWithHer”, expressing his support for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
“Quite why you think it is appropriate to write emails to United Kingdom parliamentarians with a begging bowl for your father’s repugnant campaign is completely beyond me”, Scottish MP Natalie McGaraff wrote in a reactionary email to Trump’s son, Donald Trump, Jr.
In reaching out to British MPs in particular, Trump’s team isn’t courting a particularly sympathetic audience. Not one MP stood to speak in his defense.
It remains unclear whether the “Trump” email was real or fake.
There have been other complications with Trump’s online fundraising. A study by email data solutions company Return Path finds that about 74 percent of Trump’s first email solicitations ended up in people’s spam folders.
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Trump has remained unabashed about his status as a political novice.
