Showing posts with label foreign campaign contributions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foreign campaign contributions. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2023

GOP operative sentenced in scheme to funnel Russian money to Trump campaign

Jessie Benton, a former senior aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), orchestrated a scheme to conceal the illegal foreign donation with another GOP political advisor...


Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Trump's Supreme Court nominee has argued in favor of foreign money tainting our elections - Daily Kos

In light of today's focus on Russia's interference in the 2016 election, here's a fun thing about popular vote loser Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. He's okay with allowing some foreign spending in our elections. His narrow reading of the Federal Elections Campaign Act in Bluman v. FEC —a case upholding the federal ban on campaign contributions and expenditures by "foreign nationals"—would leave the door open for unlimited spending by foreign powers ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1780284

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Legal analyst Jeff Toobin destroys Trump lawyer’s claim that no crime was committed

Former federal prosecutor and senior CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has a new in-depth feature in the December 11th edition of The New Yorker examining the legal implications of former Donald Trump associate Mike Flynn’s guilty plea. Toobin reports that Jay Sekulow, President Donald Trump’s defense attorney, is unconcerned about the possibility of charges based on illegal foreign campaign contributions or aiding and abetting the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta.

 “I’m not concerned about these bizarre theories,” Sekulow told Toobin. “There is no basis for saying, under the law or the facts, that any of this behavior during the campaign was criminal.”

Other experts disagree with Sekulow’s conclusion.....
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/legal-analyst-jeff-toobin-destroys-trump-lawyers-claim-that-no-crime-was-committed/







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