Trump campaign allegedly broke law by seeking foreign donations

In a complaint filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, a pair of nonpartisan campaign finance watchdogs alleged that the Trump campaign solicited campaign contributions from foreign government officials.

“Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign committee is violating black-letter federal law by sending campaign fundraising emails to foreign nationals,” Paul S. Ryan, deputy executive director of the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center, wrote in a statement announcing the complaint.

Bob Biersack, a senior fellow at the Center for Responsive Politics who spent 30 years on the staff of the FEC, couldn’t remember a case in which a campaign had been penalized for soliciting foreign nationals.