Divine intervention: FEC challenges newly launched 'Jesus Christ' PAC

The Federal Election Fee is questioning the legitimacy of a newly shaped presidential marketing campaign beneath the title "Jesus Christ," data present.

"His Royal Majesty Antonio Valtez Telpharaoh Toliver Jesus Christ Ens Reale Wholly Iamgod" registered as a federal political motion committee on March 23, claiming it'll deposit funds into the "Federal Reserve of HRM," in line with a submitting.

The PAC, nonetheless, is failing to move the sniff check for the impartial regulatory company, which, on Wednesday, stated in a letter that it might have illegally "failed to incorporate the true, right, or full candidate data."

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"The Fee requires the candidate to designate his or her principal marketing campaign committee by submitting a Assertion of Candidacy on FEC Type 2, or if the candidate will not be required to file electronically," the regulator wrote in a letter to the committee. "Moreover, the Fee requires the submitting to be true, right, and full."

The FEC added: "Moreover, knowingly and willfully making any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent assertion or illustration to a federal authorities company, together with the Federal Election Fee, is punishable beneath the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 1001."

In its assertion of candidacy, the Jesus marketing campaign listed former President Donald Trump as its vice presidential decide. Trump introduced a 2024 White Home bid in November 2022 and has been repeatedly in comparison with Jesus previously few days, because of him being criminally indicted throughout Holy Week.

The committee additionally claims to be headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Its tackle matches that of an condominium advanced, paperwork present.

The FEC declined a request for remark, pointing the Washington Examiner to an interim process handed in August 2016 about marketing campaign filings "containing presumably false or fictitious data." The process instructs authorities workers to ship letters to filers itemizing "fictional characters, obscene language, sexual references, [and] celebrities."

The Jesus Christ PAC couldn't be reached by the Washington Examiner for remark.