Former President Donald Trump's campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), alleging that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris violated campaign finance laws by transferring Biden's $91 million in fundraising cash to Harris's campaign.
Former President Donald Trump's campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), accusing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of violating campaign finance laws by transferring his $91 million in fundraising cash to her new campaign.
The complaint, first reported by The New York Times and obtained by Fox News Digital, alleges that Harris is "seeking to perpetrate a $91.5 million dollar heist of Joe Biden’s leftover campaign cash."
Trump Accuses Biden and Harris of Campaign Finance Violation in $91 Million Transfer
The Trump campaign argues that the transfer of funds violates the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended, which prohibits excessive contributions and prohibits candidates from using the principal campaign committee of another candidate.
David Warrington, general counsel for the Trump campaign, called the transfer "a brazen money grab that would constitute the single largest excessive contribution and biggest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended."
Trump Accuses Biden and Harris of Campaign Finance Violation in $91 Million Transfer
The complaint includes Biden, Harris, "Biden for President (aka Harris for President) and Keana Spencer, as treasurer, for flagrantly violating the Act by making and receiving an excessive contribution of nearly one hundred million dollars, and for filing fraudulent forms with the Commission purporting to repurpose one candidate’s principal campaign committee for the use of another candidate."
The complaint argues that Harris's use of Biden's "Biden for President" committee is illegal because she did not file her own Statement of Candidacy and her name does not appear in the name of the committee.
Trump Accuses Biden and Harris of Campaign Finance Violation in $91 Million Transfer
The Harris campaign told Fox News Digital that the complaint was "baseless."
"Team Harris will continue to build on our more than 250 coordinated offices and more than 1,300 coordinated staffers across the battleground states – just like we built on the $240 million cash on hand that we had at launch this week, raising $100 million in our first 36 hours and signing up 58,000 volunteers," the statement read.
Trump Accuses Biden and Harris of Campaign Finance Violation in $91 Million Transfer
"Republicans may be jealous that Democrats are energized to defeat Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, but baseless legal claims – like the ones they’ve made for years to try to suppress votes and steal elections – will only distract them while we sign up volunteers, talk to voters, and win this election."
Harris's team has broken a record with their more than $100 million fundraising haul since Biden dropped out on Sunday and Harris launched her candidacy. Biden had seen much of his fundraising dry up following his difficult debate on June 27.
In her first speech since Biden dropped out, Harris spoke to Biden campaign staffers on Monday, assuring them she would need the team to stay on to run her campaign with the election little more than 100 days away on Nov. 5.
