Money from Russia helped finance Trump win

[L. Coyote]

This story just keeps getting more and more interesting:

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html

Investigators are examining how money may have moved from the Kremlin to covertly help Trump win, the two sources said. One of the allegations involves whether a system for routinely paying thousands of Russian-American pensioners may have been used to pay some email hackers in the United States or to supply money to intermediaries who would then pay the hackers ....

... mission of the six-agency group has been to examine who financed the email hacks of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

[ananda]

1. Now, what was that ..

about foreign contributions and influence being illegal ???

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Exactly... And PACs make it more difficult but not impossible

to trace the contribution back to the original contributor!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Obama made that point at one of his SOTU addresses when he talked about Citizens United.

One of the Bush II Supreme Court Justices was lip read to have said. "That isn't true."

[butdiduvote]

3. I don't know much about this Scott Dworkin, but...

...it always struck me as suspicious that he was supposedly self-funding his entire campaign.

[blue neen]

4. Enlighten us, please.

What are you referring to here?

[butdiduvote]

5. Didn't Trump claim to pay for his entire campaign himself

[malaise]

6. Yep- but we knew that was a lie

Should we thank the 'Supremes' for this?

[blue neen]

7. Thanks, I see what you mean now.

Yes, Trump did make that laughable claim.

[sarah FAILIN]

13. when he took over Jeb site,

I got a screenshot of where he changed it to a solicitation page for him. I've also constantly got requests for $$ because he bought a list that had my name on it. He asked me for pizza money to feed volunteers, lol! He has never self financed.

[yardwork]

8. Citizens United made this possible. The Supreme Court's terrible decision.

[lindysalsagal]

9. It's Shakespearean: They'll be outed by their own nasty treatury.

How delicious.

[Achilleaze]

10. republicans selling out America to the freaking Evil Empire

no wonder the republicans are working so hard against America to keep the truth covered up: they are either complicit in treason or ashamed of their treason against the USA.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Mental picture here:

Trump sticking fingers into an increasing number of holes of water coming thru the dike.
and he has such tiny fingers, too...
drip....drip...drip....

[L. Coyote]

14. Russian hacking and the American election: an FAQ

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[L. Coyote]

15. At @DarrellIssa Town Hall yesterday, this woman's sign was forcibly removed.

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[Bear Creek]

16. Now there is this

www.politico.com/story/2017/03/senate-gop-nonprofit-obamacare-repeal-ads-235757 One Nation, which is controlled by allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is airing the ads as the second half of a $3 million ad buy aiming to build support for the politically explosive repeal of the health law. The group has already aired television ads in nine states, and is also spending money on digital, print and direct mail.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/one-nation-australias-portal-to-trump-and-the-altright-20170127-gu08q5.html Alt right group from Australia is paying for the ads against our health care.

[Bear Creek]

17. More

[link:http://www.npr.org/2011/07/02/137573513/shell-game-2-000-firms-based-in-one-simple-house|
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/02/137573513/shell-game-2-000-firms-based-in-one-simple-house][link:http://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463551038/dark-money-delves-into-how-koch-brothers-donations-push-their-political-agenda|
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/19/463551038/dark-money-delves-into-how-koch-brothers-donations-push-their-political-agenda
Before the election there was an interview on NPR with a GOP strategist talking about black money from shell companies and the influence from foreign money. Talking about outright lying about the other candidates because there was no law that made it illegal.

[L. Coyote]

18. Thanks. All the foul play is a new thing in American politics too. Too much money and mafia.

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