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Story · February 13, 2024

Old FEC file, not a new February action, is what this Trump money story actually shows

By The Daily Fuckup Newsroom · From Trump’s Supreme Court Hail Mary, and the New York money mess keeps getting uglier

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Correction: Correction: This FEC matter is an older file. The complaint was filed January 22, 2018, and the Commission closed the case March 23, 2021; it was not a new February 13, 2024 enforcement action.

The Federal Election Commission record cited here does not document a new Feb. 13, 2024 action against Donald Trump. It is an older enforcement file, MUR 7313, and the docket shows the complaint was filed on Jan. 22, 2018, then closed by the commission on March 23, 2021. That chronology matters more than the rhetoric around it: the record is archived history, not a live 2024 development.

MUR 7313 concerns allegations tied to campaign contributions and reporting in connection with the 2016 election cycle. The public file traces the complaint, responses, and later commission activity over time before the matter was certified closed in 2021. In other words, the document trail shows how a campaign-finance dispute can stay in the FEC’s paper trail long after the underlying election has passed.

The key correction is narrow but important. This docket does not support a claim that Trump was hit with a new money-related enforcement move on Feb. 13, 2024. It supports a much simpler point: the FEC still keeps old Trump-related disputes visible in its records, even after the commission has closed them.

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