Busted: Trump campaign gets yet another warning for accepting illegal donations

Former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign has been flagged yet again by the Federal Election Commission for accepting donations with illegal amounts, according to a new letter to the campaign treasurer exclusively obtained by Raw Story.

Under the law, a campaign for federal office cannot accept more than $3,300 per person, $2,000 per authorized committee, or $5,000 per multi-candidate committee in a single election — but Trump appears to have accepted well in excess of that from a number of sources.

The letter, which detailed over two hundred pages of "apparent excessive, prohibited, and impermissible contributions," warned that the campaign could face an "audit or enforcement action," which would typically include fines, if the campaign does not respond and take appropriate action within the deadline.

This is not the first time this has happened. Last year, the FEC issued a similar warning to the Trump campaign detailing 88 pages of impermissible contributions.

And in 2022, the Trump campaign also came under scrutiny for how campaign contributions were moved around and used, improperly shuffling hundreds of millions of dollars through intermediaries in ways that obscured the original contributors.

All of this is separate from controversies surrounding how Trump raised the money in the first place; In 2021, the Trump campaign was forced to refund $13 million that was debited from supporters without their knowledge, by pre-checking a box to make the donation recur monthly and obscuring it so many supporters didn't realize what they were agreeing to.