Donald Trump’s campaign lawyer is also called Donald, but they are very different

This article first appeared on the Center for Public Integrity site. Don McGahn’s picture is conspicuously missing from the wall of former commissioners at the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and it’s nowhere on the agency’s website. The former FEC chairman’s presence, though, is still felt, nearly three years after he resigned from the commission. Former colleagues and fellow lawyers describe him as a disrupter who proudly upended enforcement policies and contributed to the FEC’s current gridlocked state. “I came here to work, to change the way the place thinks. I was proven right time and time again by court cases,” McGahn told the Center for Public Integrity shortly after stepping down. McGahn is now a key player for the presidential campaign machine of an even more disruptive Donald—presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump —who’s rocketing toward a likely general election showdown with Democrat Hillary Clinton . But the two Donalds are most curious partners. Their working relationship’s tangled roots reach back decades to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where McGahn’s powerful uncle represented Trump’s business interests—until the alliance cracked in a bitter feud over money. And the younger McGahn and Trump are hardly ideological soul mates. Trump has repeatedly railed against what… Read full this story

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