{"id":1417960,"date":"2022-04-04T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417960"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:29:40","slug":"kash-patel-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-are-paying-fec-fines-in-attempt-to-bury-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kash-patel-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-are-paying-fec-fines-in-attempt-to-bury-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel: Clinton Campaign and DNC Are Paying FEC Fines in Attempt to Bury Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkash-patel-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-are-paying-fec-fines-in-attempt-to-bury-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417960&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The lead investigator for the House Intelligence Committee\u2019s 2018 probe into the\u00a0FBI\u2019s investigation of alleged Trump\u2013Russia collusion, Kash Patel, said the fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/clinton-campaign-dnc-agree-to-pay-fines-for-payments-of-steele-dossier_4372807.html\">paying a penalty<\/a> to Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an admittance of guilt. Clinton and DNC are doing so to bury the narrative and prevent more media coverage of these illegal activities, said Patel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the public sees what that is. It\u2019s their way of burying the narrative, because if they contested what happens, more media coverage, more people start looking into these things,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the Hillary Clinton campaign is not contesting it, they\u2019re paying the fine. It\u2019s basically admitting that they did this and they\u2019re out is: \u2018we just don\u2019t want a protracted legal deal, as if the Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC ever shied away from taking something or someone to court,\u201d Patel added.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s campaign and the DNC agreed to pay a combined $113,000 to the FEC, according to documents\u00a0made public on March 30, after the commission found probable cause that the entities violated federal law by describing payments that ultimately went to the Fusion GPS research group as going toward legal services and consulting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shows them how wrong they were to violate the law and spend political campaign dollars on hit job, opposition research pieces for then-candidate Trump, all of which, [to] remind the audience, was then used intentionally by the FBI\u2014even though they knew it was false\u2014to go to a federal secret court and surveil a presidential candidate and later a president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FEC, which is responsible for overseeing federal elections, including the presidential election, found that the Hillary Clinton campaign broke FEC rules about how donations can be used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we knew when we ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russiagate\">Russiagate<\/a> investigation, Chairman Nunes and I, we exposed that the Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the Steele dossier, an opposition research hit job. We had proven that some years ago,\u201d said Patel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/legal-resources\/court-cases\/coolidge-reagan-foundation-v-fec\/\">Coolidge Reagan Foundation<\/a> did \u2026 based on our investigation, said \u2018wait a second FEC, you as a political campaign cannot spend political dollars launching opposition research, false or otherwise,\u2019\u201d said Patel.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Backer, an attorney who lodged the complaint with the election commission against the Clinton campaign and the DNC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-fines-paid-by-clinton-campaign-dnc-show-corruption_4374089.html\">told The Epoch Times<\/a> that it\u2019s the first time Clinton \u201chas actually been held accountable for misconduct,\u201d calling the fines \u201ca great step for accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they fined them, that\u2019s the FEC\u2019s job. And the Hillary Clinton campaign could have said: \u2018We disagree with your finding. We\u2019re going to go to court.\u2019 What did the Hillary Clinton campaign do? \u2026 They agreed to the finding of probable cause by the FEC, which means they\u2019re basically agreeing that it happened. \u2026 Like we\u2019ve always said, \u2018follow the money.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patel said while the FEC fine is an important step toward holding the Clinton campaign and other key players involved in the Russia disinformation campaign accountable, the true victory, he hopes, will be indictments made by U.S. special counsel John Durham.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, Durham was appointed by the Dept. of Justice as special counsel to investigate the FBI\u2019s handling of Russiagate. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-clinton-campaigns-two-pronged-plan-to-create-the-trump-russia-collusion-narrative_4302443.html\">recent filings revealed<\/a>\u00a0that internet traffic at Trump Tower and the White House was accessed to fabricate ties between Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The filing, which was submitted late on Feb. 11 in connection with the indictment of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 campaign, reveals that Rodney Joffe, a tech executive who was working with Sussmann, had exploited access to domain name system (DNS) internet traffic pertaining to the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP) as well as Trump Tower and\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s Central Park West apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis FEC fine is another step towards accountability. But [for] me as a former federal prosecutor, maybe I\u2019m biased, but the ultimate step of accountability which the American public is waiting for,comes in the form of indictments, especially to those people who violated their oath of office,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times reached out to the Clinton campaign for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Zachary Stieber, Jeff Carlson, and Hans Mahncke contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-masooma-haq\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Masooma Haq began reporting for The Epoch Times from Pakistan in 2008. She currently covers a variety of topics including U.S. government, culture, and entertainment.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jan-jekielek\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ATL-240x240-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jan Jekielek\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Senior Editor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times and host of the show, &#8220;American Thought Leaders.&#8221; Jan\u2019s career has spanned academia, media, and international human rights work. In 2009 he joined The Epoch Times full time and has served in a variety of roles, including as website chief editor. He is the producer of the award-winning Holocaust documentary film &#8220;Finding Manny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead investigator for the House Intelligence Committee\u2019s 2018 probe into the\u00a0FBI\u2019s investigation of alleged Trump\u2013Russia collusion, Kash Patel, said the fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign is paying a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}