Karoline Leavitt s dirty little secret

Hey, this is really wild. Caroline Leavitt owes three hundred thousand dollars that she is now delinquent on. Now, as I explained to you what's going on as White House press secretary, Caroline Leavitt spends just about every day standing in the White House press briefing room when she's not on maternity leave, which she's entitled to. Of course, I guess other people aren't, but she is. And she talks about this is a responsible, competent, accountable administration. But we have newly filed federal election commission disclosures. Caroline Leavitt ran for Congress back in twenty twenty two. You might not have known that, but she was a candidate and she still owes three hundred and twenty six thousand dollars. Now, it's not that unusual to have some campaign debt. Candidates lose elections. They wind down their campaign and it can take a while to pay off vendors that you owe money to. That's not really the story. The story is what makes up a lot of that three hundred and twenty six thousand dollars. More than two hundred and ten thousand of the money that she owes should have been refunded to donors because the contributions exceeded the legal limit. In other words, people gave more than the federal law allows. Sometimes this is done on the expectation that the candidates going to continue and then they don't. You're supposed to send that money back to the voters. And according to the filing, that hasn't happened. The campaign doesn't have the money. And this is a debt that's been sitting there now for four years. Now, under federal law, Levitt isn't personally on the hook for the debt. The way that they're allowed to do it is here's my campaign committee. It's a separate legal entity. I'm not the personal guarantor. So I'm not saying she's personally delinquent on a loan, but this is a politically terrible look because these are the same people who never stop lecturing everybody else about personal responsibility. If you're a working person and you're behind on your bills, you've got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, get your budget balanced, make some cuts, stop buying lattes and avocado toast and take personal responsibility. You're a student struggling with student loans. Pay what you owe. Get a better job. If you're on government assistance, well, we're going to try to kick you off. And when it's one of their own with hundreds of thousands of dollars unresolved, which, by the way, is owed mostly to individual donors, suddenly it's like, oh, it's complicated. And these rules are flexible. And there's a whole other series of explanations. Now, there's another interesting twist to this entire story. An FEC complaint related to the campaign was filed back in twenty twenty two. But the FEC has been unable to take any enforcement action for more than a year because it doesn't have enough commissioners to operate. How convenient yet the people constantly demanding accountability from everybody else, fiscal responsibility, follow the rules, live within your means. The spotlight is now on one of their own and the standards change. Imagine if a Democratic White House press secretary had an old campaign with more than three hundred thousand dollars in debt, including over two hundred thousand. That is simply you should have refunded it years ago to your donors. And then they don't have any money in their campaign account. It would be wall to wall coverage on Fox News. Congressional Republicans would demand investigations. They'd say we need hearings. We need subpoenas. And instead, because it's Caroline Leavitt, most people don't even know about this because it's barely being reported. 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