(H/T: @TheRickWilson) The subject: a theoretical discussion of how the government could look into the possible illegal coordination of a Super PAC with a candidate. The conclusion: well, it’d be difficult. Ostensibly:
Former FEC commissioner Scott Thomas, a Democrat, doubts the Justice Department would ever look at such a case because the FEC has been so precise in detailing what is allowed and what is not.
“You’d have to show a true smoking gun, showing the candidate controlling the campaign and the super PAC,” said Thomas, a lawyer now in private practice in Washington. He can’t see campaign operatives being that clumsy: “It would have to be a smoking gun left by someone who had the intelligence of an advanced fern.”
…So somebody’s definitely gonna go to jail this cycle, then?
Depends, is the is the PAC coordinating with the Republican, or the Democrat? In the latter case, they probably get to name the Ambassador to France.
So Hillary will violate the campaign finance laws and two years after her ignominious defeat she will be fined and some shady foreign supporter will write a check covering it. Once that is done all can be forgotten – the entire sorry crew – with only a silent vow to never let those people happen again.
they will happen again. Hillary’s brain will be dropped into Chelsea’s non-scandal-ridden head and voila!
Unfortunately Chelsea would need a personality transplant as well.