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Rachel Maddow Debunks Bernie Sanders’ Claim Of Clinton Campaign Finance Violations
By Jason Easley on Tue, Apr 19th, 2016 at 9:18 am

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Andrea Mitchell debunked the Sanders campaign's claim that Hillary Clinton and the DNC have violated campaign finance laws.

There is one point about the Sanders allegations that doesn’t add up. Bernie Sanders is the biggest champion for getting rid of Citizens United in the United States. If the Sanders campaign had any evidence that the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign violated campaign finance laws, why didn’t they file an FEC complaint?

An FEC complaint would create national headlines and shine a light on the dirty campaign finance system, but the Sanders campaign chose not to do that. The answer to the question of why they didn’t can be found in their carefully chosen language in the letter to the DNC. The Sanders campaign wrote about “concerns” and “apparent violations,” which indicated that they don’t have any hard evidence to back up their allegations.

Campaign finance experts are suggesting that the Sanders campaign is off base with these allegations, and the timing of the claims screams strategic move to try to swing the electorate on the eve of a critical must-win primary.

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