The Trump 2020 campaign says people are winning the money-raising contests to meet the president but there is little public evidence that they are.
If the dinner contests were never fulfilled with a random draw for a winner, and the offer of a prize was not honored, there is potential exposure to prosecution for fraud at both the federal and state level.
"I think there's a mail fraud and wire fraud issue," Richard Painter, an associate counsel in the Bush White House and now a law professor at the University of Minnesota, told"You're raising campaign cash, you're lying to people. If you obtain money from people through false pretenses that's a violation of federal mail fraud and wire fraud statutes."
The campaign, individuals who authorized the contests, and even Trump himself would be liable if the advertised contests did not take place."It's just an out and out fraud," Painter said, adding that states attorneys should open investigations if there were no dinners.In July 2017, reported that the Trump campaign announced someone had won dinner with Trump at the Trump Victory Dinner in Washington, D.C. But no name was released and Yahoo reported that there is no public record of the winner.President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a rally in Manchester on August 15, 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Trump campaign regularly holds contests to win dinner with Trump.
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