Democracy Wire

The Federal Election Commission has launched an investigation of charges that the National Rifle Association Accepted Donations from Russians and funneled the money into the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and the Republican National Committee are running an elaborate scheme to skirt federal election laws and use illegal “soft money” contributions for the Trump-Pence reelection campaign, Common Cause charges in complaints filed today.

As congressional appropriators work to fashion a mammoth spending bill to keep the federal government running, Republican leaders are again trying to use the “must pass” spending legislation to advance their guerilla war against sensible campaign finance laws.

Facebook,the social media industry leader, continues to run ads that do not provide full disclosure, the online news site ProPublica reports today..

Two news items this morning bring more evidence that President Trump and his family have turned the White House into a personal profit center.

Late night host Seth Meyers has some insightful analysis of Common Cause's charge that the Trump campaign may have broken federal law in buying the silence of "Stormy Daniels."