$200 fine for late filing about stock purchases near $1million. I’d get a higher fine for a speeding ticket. And fines are kind of bullshit. Any law that is punished by a fine means that action is legal for a price so it’s only illegal for poor people.
This can’t be a surprise to anyone. If things were the other way around and the country was tanking this badly under republicans I’d expect they would lose their ass in the next election cycle to democrats.