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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like this whole "Russia" thing wasn't a hoax after all.
2 GOP Operatives Indicted In Russian Trump Campaign Finance Scheme
Link to tweet
Tetrachloride
(7,827 posts)Just say indictment or evidence as the case may be.
Clarity helps the Blue Team. Twisted memes, not so much.
Kid Berwyn
(14,862 posts)Lets help spread the news.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but they missed this.
kentuck
(111,076 posts)Hmmmm..
Hugin
(33,112 posts)So to speak.
DBoon
(22,353 posts)lark
(23,083 posts)Wonder why not? Could it be because it doesn't fit the narrative of knock Biden because he's not as much of a newsmaker as TFG. Of course they didn't care that it was all bad news with orange asshole, they just liked the clicks.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/two-gop-operatives-one-pardoned-by-trump-indicted-in-campaign-finance-scheme-involving-russian-national/2021/09/20/19d2a0c6-1a68-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html
Plus Politico:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/gop-operatives-charged-funneling-russian-money-trump-rnc-513219
Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-party-operatives-charged-with-arranging-illegal-trump-campaign-2021-09-20/
Even Newsweek, as used on MSN:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/who-are-doug-wead-and-jesse-benton-former-gop-operatives-indicted/ar-AAOFlnp?li=BBnbcA1
lark
(23,083 posts)So very glad it's being covered in KY, where it should be front page news for sure. I'll check out it's placement in WaPo when I'm finished here. This is really important - Russia, Russia, Russia is always the mantra because they are determined to change our country to be more like them through the rich white rw influencers/pols.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)PatSeg
(47,368 posts)Business Insider reports that Jesse Benton, who was once Mitch McConnell's campaign manager and a former staffer for Rand Paul, "conspired to illegally funnel thousands of dollars of foreign money from a Russian foreign national" into the 2016 Trump Presidential campaign. The indictment specifically points to a $100,000 wire transfer that Benton received in October 2016 from an "unnamed Russian national" which related to a promise of the national "meet[ing][/ing] a celebrity" at a fundraiser in Philadelphia in September 2016. Benton is also married to Rand Paul's niece and has long-standing ties to Ron Paul, too.
Although prosecutors did not directly name the candidate, it has been confirmed that Donald Trump was hosting a fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton on the night referenced in Philadelphia in September 2016. It also has been confirmed that the Russian national DID attend the fundraiser. His travel was coordinated by the other person indicted, Roy Douglas Wead, a conservative author. All 3 men had photos taken with the candidate.
So what does the indictment allege, outside of this sketchy payout scheme? The men are accused of "falsely portraying the contribution as payment for consulting work." Benton allegedly kept $75,000 of the $100,000 for himself - a real chutzpahdik. He did donate the remaining $25,000 to the campaign in his own name. Under federal campaign finance laws, donors may not use proxies for their donations, especially foreign donors who are not permitted to make campaign contributions. Apparently Benton thought if he kept 3/4ths of the donations and laundered the other $25,000, he would somehow get around campaign finance laws.
https://crooksandliars.com/2021/09/2-gop-staffers-indicted-russian-trump
bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)Russian, Republican, Rifle, or Racist?
Wounded Bear
(58,629 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)H2O Man
(73,528 posts)use of the word, yes. In the legal sense, definitely not.
infullview
(978 posts)They're going to let the yellow slime ball walk. Merrick you're pathetic!
BumRushDaShow
(128,748 posts)so he's only been in the position for just over 6 months and has had to clear out all of TFG's lackeys.
So he hasn't been in there for 3 or 4 years like some people seem to assume.
Botany
(70,483 posts)Along with this new news about Russia money going into Trump and the RNC pockets never forget
that Paul Manafort gave Russian agent Kilimnik not the Trump's campaign polling data but data
analytics (or what could be turned into data analytics) so Russia knew where and by how much they
had to rat fuck our 2016 elections and that the Trump Campaign's computer and Russia's Alfa Bank
(Putin) computer had 2,880 electronic "pings" back and forth in 2016.
Lock 'em up.
ShazamIam
(2,570 posts)partners since the 80s in wrecking the U.S.