McConnell staffer -- Russian money -- Trump

[True Dough]

Link to tweet

[Meadowoak]

1. Erik told us in 2015.

[Wicked Blue]

2. Moscow Mitch

Putin's b---h

[Cha]

3. No shit?!

[FakeNoose]

4. Jack Smith is watching

[Joinfortmill]

5. Yes!

[MLAA]

6. I can't tell what is new news and what is from November

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/trump-campaign-jesse-benton-russia


A former senior aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was convicted Thursday after being found guilty of helping to funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Driving the news: Jessie Benton, 45, orchestrated a scheme to conceal the illegal foreign donation with another GOP operative, per the Justice Department. Benton, the husband of Paul's niece and a veteran Republican staffer, faces up to 20 years in prison. His attorney told the Washington Post Benton "maintains his innocence and plans to appeal."

Federal prosecutors say Benton arranged for the Russian national to attend a political fundraising event for Trump's campaign and take a photo with Trump.
For the record: Neither Trump nor his campaign was aware of the Russian person's nationality, the DOJ said

[ancianita]

9. The Tweeter here is reminded in the Twitter thread that this isn'b breaking news, that

it happened in November.

[MLAA]

17. Thanks! Interesting the guy is closely related to Rand Paul the pro Russia Senator.

[ancianita]

19. The same Rand Paul who used to do RT talk shows.

[MLAA]

23. I'm sure he had no idea what his nephew in law was doing with the Russian money

[soldierant]

24. Too old to be breaking news,

but recent enough that he likely has not yet been sentenced. That will be news I for one will be interested in.

[IA8IT]

7. November link Judi Lynn post

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016337283

[dalton99a]

8. No collusion, no collusion, no collusion

[lindysalsagal]

10. Indict. He was always a money launderer.

[mopinko]

11. unreliable tweeter.

she’s the 1 who’s been floating the liz cheney for speaker rumor for several days now.
saw someone say she has a rw twin account.

[niyad]

12. Colour me sooooooo NOT surprised.

[certainot]

13. explains the joint meeting- who does it benefit?

[Ford_Prefect]

14. Whom would you think it could?

[uponit7771]

15. Old news but proves citizens united is a horrible decision

[Old Crank]

16. This happened in November

Sentencing in Feb. Or March.
Benton was also a former aid of Rand Paul and was convicted of a similar scheme, but not with Russian cash, but TFG pardoned him.

[cstanleytech]

28. If he was engaged in related ongoing criminal activity could it toast the pardon?

[Tickle]

18. LoL somethings just write themselves

LoL he was given a $100,000 and kept $75,000. He gave $25k to TFG. Also Trump pardoned him before he left ldk 🤷?♀️

[Martin68]

20. Wow! So many crows coming home to roost.

I will never get tired of the confessions and indictments.

[CentralMass]

21. Rember the Aluminum plant in Kentucky ?

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/08/19/senate-report-russian-investor-braidy-mill-kremlin-proxy/5607217002/

"US Senate report says Russian investor in Braidy Industries' mill is a proxy for the Kremlin"

[sellitman]

22. Rusher, Rusher, Rusher!!!

What a Hoax!!!!!

[Roland99]

25. FAKE resister. Not an account to follow nor quote

[cstanleytech]

26. Question is how much money if any was funnelded to Rand Paul and McConnell followed by

the question of were working together with him in laundering the monies?

[NullTuples]

27. Now do the part where McConnell's PAC received Russian money to distribute to GOP campaigns...

GOP campaigns took $7.35 million from oligarch linked to Russia

"Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank."

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35-million-from-oligarch-linked-to-russia/