That's Weird
By JOSH MARSHALL
Published JULY 1, 2016, 12:02 PM EDT
... Tim Watts is my new best friend in the Australian federal parliament ... now because he's getting bombarded by the Trump campaign asking for money to fight 'Crooked Hillary' ... Tim's a Labor party member. So even apart from it being illegal for Trump to solicit funds from Tim (remember, Tim's not an American citizen, being from Australia), their politics likely don't line up ...
One was from the Trump campaign. The other was from a pro-Trump Super Pac called Crippled America PAC ...
... I looked up Crippled America PAC and as of their last filing just a couple weeks ago, they're total budget was $40. No m or b after that $ sign, forty bucks, the price of a fancy dinner. So obviously CAP ... actually started operating just now. And now they're showing up in Tim's inbox ...
But the point is this: it seems extremely likely that this email list was put together by the Trump campaign. Now it seems to be in the hands of at least one Trump supporting SuperPac. Campaigns and SuperPACs are not allowed to coordinate. And there's nothing about this operation that gives any reason to believe they did this in a way to even try to make it pass legal muster ...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/welp-that-s-weird-but-of-course-it-is