Republican Sen. Tom Cotton got five-figure campaign contributions from a donor profiting off Russia'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Business Insider

Russia's war on Ukraine

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas — one of the Republican Party's more hawkish members — received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign cash from a hedge fund investor who's reportedly made millions of dollars from commodity speculations that have paid off since Russia invaded Ukraine, according to federal campaign finance records.

Federal Election Committee records show that Soroban Capital Partners LP founder Eric Mandelblatt and his wife, Danielle Mandelblatt, last year spread $43,000 in political contributions between political action committees that support Cotton.

The Mandelblatt funds were sent to Cotton Victory, Cotton for Senate, Inc., and the Republican Majority Fund — Cotton's leadership political action committee — in September 2021.

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In March, the Wall Street Journal reported that Mandelblatt's Soroban Capital Partners had made "at least several hundred million dollars" from "bullish bets on commodities … following Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-sen-tom-cotton-got-five-figure-campaign-contributions-from-a-donor-profiting-off-russias-war-on-ukraine/ar-AAW0U3v

[Mysterian]

1. We must purge our government and our nation

of these traitorous fascists like Tom Cotton.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Hedge funds own the world, we're a far way from the idea of mutual funds from the 1930s

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[KPN]

4. People making huge money off investments in and business with Russia making

contributions to political campaigns and PACs ultimately is the same as political campaigns accepting foreign contributions. When are we in America wake up to the notion that deregulation is simply a method of by-passing and neutering laws that existed for the good of society and an ethical "system"?

[maxrandb]

6. John Roberts and the fascist court enabled all this shit

From unlimited dark money political contributions to the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, this disgusting piece of Federalist Society amphibian shit has the blood of our Democracy on his hands.

The stain of the Robert's Court is going to be like a giant shit-smear right through the middle of Old Glory for decades.

[KPN]

7. Expand the frigging court! Frankly, we are screwed unless we do some screwing right back at them.

I no longer have any faith in our system because it has been completely rigged by big money and that big money is going to work hard to sustain their rigging unless and until we do something radical. These are uncommon times with highly uncommon problems. Uncommon problems need uncommon solutions, not the same old same old.

[onecaliberal]

12. That.

[c-rational]

13. +1

[c-rational]

14. +1, well said.

[turbinetree]

5. So he has blood money in his coffers....Hey John Roberts is this what you meant by Citizens United

and that ruling, come on tell the public that this blood money from this couple is just fucking fine....you also have blood on your hands.....fucking élites.....

[ck4829]

8. K&R

[Cherokee100]

9. I wonder

I wonder who really was behind, Citizens United. That was the beginning, of the Republican mess we have now. I bet those 'contributions', were in Rubles, somewhere down the line.

[jmowreader]

10. It does not appear Mandelblatt was investing in Russia

It seems to me that what Mandelblatt was doing qualifies as “gambling on Putin’s misery.”

This puts him in the “asshole” department, not the “traitorous scumbag” one.

Tom Cotton is still pond scum who needs to go back to Arkansas and stay there, unless we can tie him to the insurrection and then he needs to go to the house that is big.

[Marthe48]

11. Of course he did

another criminal traitor out to line his own cockroach nest

[BigmanPigman]

15. There must be dozens that got the same gifts from Russia/Putin

in the Senate and the House.

[3825-87867]

16. If all the Republican politicians gave the money back to Russia

Putin could probably afford that yacht back...keep the fighting going for a long while.
don't forget the NRA and Fox!