Federal Elections Committee Chair Sean Cooksey said the Department of Justice attempted “to intimidate and chill private citizens and organizations from campaigning on behalf of President Trump” when it sent a letter to billionaire Elon Musk in late October warning him that the $1 million giveaways he offered to voters in battleground states ahead of the election could be illegal.

Cooksey also compared the “misuse of government power against President Trump’s campaign” to the DOJ’s abuses during Watergate.

“The underlying motivation behind this stunt is obvious,” Cooksey wrote Wednesday in a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz pressing for an investigation into the matter, The Washington Free Beacon reported.

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