On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign sent out a press release on how the “TRUMP CAMPAIGN CITES POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY BIDEN ALIGNED ‘PENNSYLVANIA VALUES PAC’; DEMANDS IMMEDIATE END TO THIS FALSE ADVERTISING.” The PAC in question, the Pennsylvania Values PAC, is being accused by the Trump campaign of putting out an “advertisement [that] may constitute both a criminal and civil conspiracy to injure the rights of President Trump’s supporters to cast their ballots in Pennsylvania,” according to a cease and desist letter addressed to Maria L. Galdo, Treasurer of the PAC, from David A. Warrington of the Dhillon Law Group Inc.
The letter not only demands a cease and desist, but also that Galdo preserve evidence. According to Warrington’s letter, the ad appears to violate federal criminal law as well as the Klu Klux Klan Act:
Federal law makes it a crime from two or more persons to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person . . . in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.” 18 U.S.C. § 241. Voting is such a right. The Department of Justice has successfully criminally prosecuted people for conspiring to injure the right of citizens to vote by spreading false information about how to vote. See United States v. Mackey, Case No. 21-cr-0080 (AMD) (E.D.N.Y.). On its face, your false advertisement appears materially similar to the communications that resulted in a seven-month prison sentence for Mr. Mackey. […]
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