Paul S. Ryan, phó chủ tịch phụ trách chính sách và tố tụng tại tổ chức giám sát chiến dịch Common Cause, cho biết các cáo buộc bao gồm "những vi phạm nghiêm trọng", bao gồm cả việc vi phạm luật đã có từ hơn 100 năm trước.

"Luật liên bang cấm các ứng cử viên nhận đóng góp từ các tập đoàn. Luật này đã tồn tại hơn một thế kỷ với mục đích ngăn chặn các chính trị gia nằm trong tay các tập đoàn lớn", Ryan nói với tờ The Daily Beast. Ông cho biết cuộc kiểm toán "cho thấy chiến dịch của ông ấy có thể đã vi phạm nghiêm trọng...

Common Cause Maryland, a nonpartisan fair-elections advocate, trained and dispatched more than 1,000 volunteers to polling places in 22 counties. Volunteers were asked to report any sightings of voter intimidation or harassment through a group communication app at the end of their shifts.

A spokeswoman for the organization said no incidents were reported.

"The population in the state has increased and grown above the national average," Atlanta-based attorney, and Common Cause Board Member, Emmet Bondurant recalled thinking. "And yet the number of registered voters [was] going down."

Paul Ryan, a vice president at Common Cause, a government watchdog group, said Trump’s disclosure bolsters its Federal Election Commission complaint that the payment should have been reported by the campaign. Whenever Trump learned of the payment to Daniels -- which is still unclear -- he should have directed the campaign to report it, Ryan said.

“Donald Trump’s reimbursement of Michael Cohen puts him in the middle of a campaign finance violation that he once denied knowing anything about,” Ryan said. “It’s a...

Emerging stories of his involvement in developing a luxury high-rise in Panama could spell more trouble for President Trump

News clips on the 4th Circuit decision

More than a year into her job as Department of Homeland Security Secretary, the negative headlines on Kristi Noem’s job performance continue week after week.

Common Cause launched ads for those waiting in long TSA lines to communicate their frustration.