COMMERCE, GA – MARCH 26: Former U.S. President Donald Trump stands in front of a sign promoting his Save America PAC at a rally at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia.
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Toward the end of its most recent public hearing, the Jan. 6 Committee released a roughly two-minute video laying out how former President Donald Trump and his allies raised $250 million off what they called the “big rip-off.”
According to the committee, they pitched a supposed “Official Election Defense Fund” that did not exist in order to fight bogus claims of election fraud that even Trump campaign officials knew were false.
What’s more, a top official for an anti-corruption watchdog that’s one of Trump’s staunchest critics says Trump is likely to escape any criminal or civil liability over it—at least, based on what’s currently known about it.
“It is incredibly frustrating to learn how many things are highly unethical, but probably legal, and this is probably one of them,” Robert Maguire, the research director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told Law&Crime’s podcast “Objections: with Adam Klasfeld.”
CREW has filed some 180 legal complaints and actions against then-President Donald Trump after his first year in office.
In 2018, the non-profit group chronicled that legal blitz under the headline: “The Most…
