Lawyers for former President Donald Trump filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, alleging that Vice President Kamala Harris cannot legally lay claim to nearly $100 million donated to President Joe Biden by “amending” the name of his campaign committee. 

“This is little more than a thinly veiled $91.5 million excessive contribution from one presidential candidate to another, that is, from Joe Biden’s old campaign to Kamala Harris’s new campaign,” Trump general counsel David A. Warrington wrote in a complaint. “Contributions by federal candidate committees to other federal candidates are limited to $2,000.”

“Kamala Harris is in the process of committing the largest campaign finance violation in American history and she is using the Commission’s own forms to do it,” the complaint alleges.

By law, candidates for office must establish a campaign committee including their name and file a statement of candidacy making that committee their fundraising vehicle. Harris did neither. 

Instead, on Sunday, the campaign treasurer “amended” Biden’s statement of candidacy to replace his name with Kamala’s and renamed the designated committee to Harris for President, using the same ID as the Biden for President committee, and filed “amended” paperwork changing the name of that committee. 

“There is no provision in federal campaign finance law for Kamala Harris to take over Joe Biden’s candidacy now by quite literally attempting to become him via an amendment… and making off with all of his cash,” Trump’s lawyers say. “Ms. Harris’ actions constitute a massive excessive contribution from Biden for President to Ms. Harris.”

Save for a few exceptions, a campaign committee can only tie itself to one candidate. Since 2020, when Biden first formed the committee, Harris’s name has appeared on its forms. But that does not mean she is entitled to the windfall, Trump’s lawyers say.

“If the Commission were to deem Joe Biden to have ended his candidacy before transferring his campaign funds to Kamala Harris, then this only creates another violation. Federal candidates are prohibited from keeping contributions for elections in which they do not participate,” the complaint said.

Trump’s lawyers allege that Harris, and committee treasurer Keana Spencer, who is responsible for submitting forms to the FEC, of committing “an attempted fraud on the Commission and should be referred to the Department of Justice for investigation and prosecution” as “a conspiracy to obstruct the lawful functions of the United States.” 

Spencer also filed a “miscellaneous document” with the FEC, advising the agency that “Vice President Harris is now a candidate for United States President in the 2024 election and will henceforth be conducting campaign activities only in pursuit of that office.”