Nina T took a donation from whom?

[mcar]

Link to tweet

?s=20

Nina Turner has received $2,700 from Bassam Khawam, a proponent of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who also paid for Tulsi Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria.

A spokeswoman for the Turner campaign could not directly answer whether Turner supports Assad’s regime.

[hlthe2b]

1. She is really not a smart person... enough said

[sheshe2]

2. " could not directly answer"...........

A spokeswoman for the Turner campaign could not directly answer whether Turner supports Assad’s regime.

I guess we got our answer.

[mcar]

3. Seems like it should have been an easy answer

"No, she doesn't and we're returning the donation."

[brer cat]

5. One would think that would be easy

but apparently not. I'm not seeing much credibility in that campaign.

[MontanaMama]

4. Oh Nina.

Bless your heart.

[brush]

6. A mention of Tulsi Gabbard. What happened to her after her improbably campaign...

for president? She didn't run for re-election and most figured she'd end up on FOX news or another right wing site.

Nope, and no sightings lately. Turner is going to suffer the same ignominious fate IMO.

[mcar]

11. Wonder if Fox gave her the brush off

haven't seen that smug expression and white suit in some time.

[Budi]

15. She & Nina are both rejoining the new Sanders Institute as Fellows.

Along with Jane & their son.
No one really knows what they do there but I guess its a family private 501C ..

[Hortensis]

7. But WHY?!

After all, WE don't do that. Could it be some kind of dogwhistle to other supporters?

[TheProle]

8. Looks like

he has also donated to Ted Strickland, Friends of Sherrod Brown, ACTBLUE and the Ohio State Democratic Party - a regular cabal of Assad backers, I'm sure.

[mcar]

12. Maybe you could ask those campaigns about those donations

I'm talking about this one and a very specific answer from Team Turner.

[TheProle]

18. Fair point.

from the link just below your referenced tweet, the money was handed off to a non-profit:

"We donated this contribution to the Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition back in March," Turrentine said. "We continue to vet contributions to our campaign to ensure they align with our values."

[mcar]

19. Good to know. Thanks.

[BlueLucy]

9. Who is next Erdoğan?

[mcar]

13. The lobbying firm that represents Erdogan already donated to her

She's covering all the bases.

[Budi]

22. In an associated sort of way. Post #20

She is sponsored by Mercury Global Affairs. A foreign Lobbying Corporation.

Here are a few of Mercury's Clients

[BlueLucy]

24. Wow! This is alarming!

[Budi]

26. Same here. Alarming.

It's her deep & close monetary association with Mercury that should make everyone stop & question what her goal is here.
It's not the locals of little OH-11.

Much broader & darker than that.
I honestly hope what the factcheckers have revealed about her, & the receipts they've discovered leads to a more scrupulous look.

There's something really wrong with this.

Democracy & our Democratic Party will stand strong in the end.
💙

[Dream Girl]

10. I would bet dollars to donuts She's a Putin girl.

[mcar]

14. She sure supported a Putin girl (woman)

in JF Stein.

[Budi]

17. HELLO! Somebody say DONUTS?

[Funtatlaguy]

16. Early on, I liked Ninas energy. No longer. She frightens me.

[Budi]

20. Whoa! Quite the burn rate! So it's NOT all about "Grassroots"?

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Link to tweet

Anyone can access these expenditures for a campaign.
This totally shocked me since she speaks of her opponant's "Outside Dark Money", & touts her own "Grassroots funding".

Ya. I'm seeing a totally different thing happening in her campaign for one small Ohio District that she doesn't live in, hasn't for 11 years & has no intentions of sticking around in after the campaign, win or lose.
She lives in MD with her husband, so what's all this big money about, then?

The most stricking info to come out about her, is her campaign sponsorship & lobbying gig with RU owned (Kirill Goncharenko) Mercury Global Affairs Corporation.

Kirill G was named in Mueller's report as a foreign agent, btw.

Here are a few of their global clients besides Nina Turner:



THIS is one of the biggest Red Flags, & one that we all should be asking, what she's really doing in that small District of OH-11 anyway?

Knowing all this, Why would anyone put their name on an endorsement for Ms Turner?
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Link to tweet

This is who she really is beyond the ranting & dancing across the campaign stage.
Dark Money, Foreign enemy supported & eagerly accepted.
Who's she degrading all our Democrats for again?


From the Bullwark:
Snip
And of course, Mercury famously collabed with every dictator’s main man in Washington, Paul Manafort, on a front-group for the Russia-backed Ukranian autocrat Viktor Yanukovych.

So, after Nina Turner left public service she considered her options, looked around, and decided the right fit for her was a lobbying firm that is staffed by Trump stooges and represents the interests of tyrants, polluters, tobacco companies, Israeli hackers, and Chinese Communist suppliers.

These guys needed someone to launder their reputation for a few bucks and Turner threw her hand in the air like she really didn’t care. (DO U?)
https://thebulwark.com/nina-turner-wants-to-be-the-squads-nick-naylor/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[mcar]

21. Why isn't more being made about the fact that she doesn't live in the district?

or even the damn state?

[Budi]

23. It has been questioned, so I'm assuming she filed the proper paperwork in the nik of time, & ..

..& as soon as Biden nominated Marcia Fudge.
Knowing there'd be a primary seat opening up.

Think she had a lobbying gig with Mercury at the time & suspended it, as well as stepped down from her role as Pres of Our Revolution to clear her legal affiliations to run in OH -11.

Crazy stuff, huh!.

ALSO, residency I believe is one year for State openings, but not for Federal. So that's how she got in under the wire.

She & her husband live in MD.

[Me.]

25. If She Can't Say No

silence means assent