A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump said the House Jan. 6 committee can probe how he and the Republican National Committee raised money with false and inflammatory claims of election fraud that stoked violence.
after the House panel issued a subpoena to Salesforce on Feb. 23 and said it was investigating whether the RNC and Trump campaign solicited campaign donations from Nov. 3, 2020, to Jan. 6, 2021, by pushing false and inflammatory claims of election fraud. The select committee said it wanted to understand the flow of funds and whether they went to their stated purpose.
RNC attorney Christopher O. Murray asserted that the national GOP’s greater effectiveness at digital fundraising in recent years comes from how it breaks down and organizes how groups of email recipients perform, and that such closely held proprietary information would quickly be leaked by Congress to its national Democratic counterparts.
“The House instructed the Select Committee to ‘investigate and report upon the facts, circumstances, and causes relating to’ the January 6 attack, including ‘the influencing factors that fomented’ it. And it empowered the Select Committee to investigate ‘how technology … may have factored into the motivation’ for the attack, including by examining the roles of any relevant ‘public and private’ entities,” Kelly wrote.
But the judge said that information about the pace and content of its mass emails is already collected in online databases, and that the RNC had provided no basis for him to find that subpoena would unearth sensitive email discussions by employees, internal RNC memorandums about its digital strategy, or information that would permit a political competitor to piece together a “mosaic” of its email strategy.
More broadly, the House, after consultation with Salesforce, said it sought logs of how and which campaign or RNC officials directed the small-donor appeals.
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