CNN: Campaign complaint filed over reported Trump porn star payment
The group Common Cause has lodged complaints alleging that a reported hush payment for a porn star to stay quiet about an alleged affair with Donald Trump in 2006, before he was elected President, constitutes a campaign finance violation.
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Larry Noble, general counsel of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and a CNN contributor, said the FEC would consider the complaint and seek a response from the Trump campaign. Noble predicted that based on the FEC's voting pattern in recent years, it probably would opt not to investigate the matter. Common Cause could then sue the FEC, at which point the agency would have to demonstrate why it had chosen not to investigate. "I doubt they will investigate it," Noble said. "But you never know." On the Justice Department side, Noble noted that a somewhat similar case had gone to trial for former presidential candidate John Edwards.