Witnesses called to testify before a GOP-led House committee on June 13 offered starkly divergent views of the validity of using federal campaign law in the New York prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
Former Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chair James Trainor testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing that Manhatten District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Trump drew on an unusual interpretation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)—one that sets the bar for violations so low that it might well set a precedent for any number of politically motivated prosecutions.
