Dope1: If Bragg thinks he can claim a crime was committed for purposes of the election, he loses because the FEC will testify there was nothing there either.

That's incorrect. The FEC declined to move forward against Cohen because he had already admitted to a crime in federal court, making any commission action against him moot. The commission was deadlocked in how to proceed on the complaints against Trump and the entities related to him. Democratic commissioners argued that Trump "knowingly and willfully accepted contributions nearly 5,000% over the legal limit to suppress a negative story mere days before Election Day" -- and that charges against Trump were "well-grounded."

Republican commissioners didn't address the charges' validity but instead argued that Cohen's guilty plea in federal court made the public record "complete" because with Cohen's guilty plea the commission's interests had been enforced and vindicated.

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