How Putin's proxies helped funnel millions into GOP campaigns

"Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country."

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/...-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns

WakeForestRanger said:

"Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country."

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/...-proxies-helped-funnel-millions-gop-campaigns

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Yet the pubs never gave them Uranium

The uranium thing seems mostly BS

Foreign influence on, and money flowing into, our politics? Not so much.

I guess in some sense everything is increasingly globalized, including our politics?

I do think we need transparency wrt political donations. And (effective) prohibitions wrt foreign donations.

We need to close the loopholes to transparency and foreign donors.


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