Along the way, the Republican commissioners frequently rejected their own general counsel, who often found reason to believe that violations had indeed occurred. Just last month, a Daily Beast investigation found that the FEC had never taken action on a stunning 43 complaints against Trump. Data suggests there’s more than a kernel of truth to that claim. The FEC-specifically its three Republican commissioners, those critics say-appears congenitally incapable of acting against the former president. For the FEC’s critics, the timing couldn’t have been better.
