Obama, Clinton Paid Fines for Campaign Finance Violations, But Trump Was Indicted

The prosecution of former President Donald Trump in New York stands out as an anomaly–and that’s not just because the defendant is the first ex-U.S. president ever to face a criminal indictment.
It’s a historic case fraught with concerns over legal sufficiency and political animus against Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
Many people are trying to understand how a financial-misclassification case against a federal candidate generated criminal charges in a state courtroom.
Such cases against federal candidates typically come from the U.S. Department of Justice, sometimes via referral from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Bradley Smith, a former FEC chair, told The Epoch Times….

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