Election Integrity’s Most Insidious Foe — the FEC

President Trump tries to get the election regulator to move against the Washington Post.

AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, at downtown Washington. AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

One of the most insidious election integrity issues is the effort to get our government to regulate spending by our newspapers to publicize their editorials and other opinions. The latest is a complaint filed by President Trump’s campaign against the Washington Post for, as our Novi Zhukovsky reports, “illegally” spending marketing dollars on election eve to promote its anti-Trump content. On this matter, we don’t wish Trump luck.

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