Poor Ron DeSantis just can't seem to get it right, can he? Folks, this week, Ron DeSantis
campaign was hit with yet another F E C Federal Elections Commission complaint alleging that
DeSantis campaign has been taking illegal contributions from foreign corporations. The
foreign corporation in question is Canadian Financial Services, E C N Capital. And according
to a complaint from the campaign Legal Center, the C L C, they say that this Canadian capital
firm has been pouring money into DeSantis campaign since 2018. So they funded his first
gubernatorial run, they funded his second gubernatorial run. Now some of that money
might be bleeding over into his presidential campaign. And if so, that is 100% illegal
according to the Federal Elections Campaign Act, a federal law that says under no circumstances
can a local campaign, a state campaign, or a federal campaign, except any money or anything
of value from any foreign entity, be it a corporation or a human being.
And according to the campaign, financial disclosures seems like this is an open and shut case,
right? I mean, it's right there in black and white that this capital firm gave money to
DeSantis. Like that part's not disputable. So why did a complaint have to be filed by
an outside group to begin with? Every person running for office and every person holding
office is required to file these campaign financial disclosures. They've gotta file
their personal financial disclosures, all of that, and DeSantis did, right? There's
no question that this man turned in his paperwork, okay? I'm not accusing him of not turning
it in. The question is, what's the point of turning it in if we don't have a government
agency that's actually going through it? Why does it have to be these outside groups like
the Campaign Legal Center, which does great work. I love them. They're great, but they
shouldn't even have to exist because we should have the agency receiving the financial information
doing what the campaign legal center is doing. But they're not. You would think somebody
looking through it would be like, okay, here's DeSantis says, wait a minute, this company
says it's in Canada. That's not legal. But no, he turns it in and they're just like,
all right, thanks man. Appreciate it. Yeah, we're just gonna file that right over there.
That's that's totally good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever, , how dysfunctional is our
government that we have to
Have, have government watchdog organizations in this country? But that's the sad reality
in which we live. If they aren't out there, these independent groups, like campaign leaders
said, if they're not doing the work, if they're not the ones combing through the, the financial
filings, nobody will. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics and Washington Crew, another great
group that does this. But the point is, this is actually DeSantis second complaint that
he has received. He has also been accused in a separate complaint, also filed by the
clc, that he funneled $80 million from his state political Action committee into his
federal super pac, which is also illegal. And so far nothing's happened with that complaint
at all. So here we have these instances where you can see the money being transferred in
black and white. It's on the disclosure forms and nothing's getting done. And here's the
kicker. Even if DeSantis, if they do an investigation, they come back and they say, holy crap, yeah,
this dude broke the law. Do you know what's gonna happen to him? Nothing. Nothing. He'll
pay the money back, or he'll pay a small fine and then he'll keep on keeping on. That's
it. Our campaign finance laws here in the United States are a joke, but the even bigger
joke are the agencies that are supposed to be looking to make sure candidates are doing
the right thing, because clearly they are the ones not doing their jobs.