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Originally Posted by Gozer
I did not make that claim.
I will say that Bernie (because of honesty) and Trump (because of incompetence) did not engage in this behaviour.
This is fresh meat; Bernie's campaign had proof of other, less ethical accusations of the Clintons/DNC working together to evade these laws. I'm happy to expand if you're unfamiliar.
Working just off your ColberPAC knowledge, you know enough to understand this is in violation of the Federal Elections Commision - regardless of how silly those laws were considered by Colbert. His lawyer explained they couldn't co-ordinate.
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So based on some reading you can communicate but not coordinate. However that is very grey and untested it court. Both Trump and Clinton have complaints with the FEC lodged against them for their behaviour with their superpacs.
Part of me files this under who cares of course they were doing it, everybody has always done it as the concept of the super pac is ridiculous and the citizens United ruling makes no sense. However I should care more if the law was followed but I certainly don't have the expertise to evaluate if it was