2016 Postmortem

AmericanMan1958

(520 posts) Mon Oct 24, 2016, 06:20 PM Oct 2016

Exclusive investigation: Donald Trump faces foreign donor fundraising scandal

@JuddLegum Editor @thinkprogress
1)This undercover investigation by the Telegraph is pretty complicated but also amazing
2)The Telegraph had undercover reporters posing as consultants for a Chinese benefactor approach the Trump and Clinton SuperPACs
3) They got a bite with the pro-Trump group, the Great America PAC
4)The reporter told the co-chairman, Eric Beach, of the Trump PAC that someone from China wanted to donate $2 million
5)Beach told the reporter he would need to funnel the money through a non-profit

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is facing a fundraising scandal after a Telegraph investigation exposed how key supporters were prepared to accept illicit donations from foreign backers.

Senior figures involved with the Great America PAC, one of the leading "independent" groups organising television advertisements and grassroots support for the Republican nominee, sought to channel $2 million from a Chinese donor into the campaign to elect the billionaire despite laws prohibiting donations from foreigners.

In return, undercover reporters purporting to represent the fictitious donor were assured that he would obtain “influence” if Mr Trump made it to the White House.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/24/exclusive-investigation-donald-trump-faces-foreign-donor-fundrai/

Lawrence Noble, who was general counsel at the US Federal Election Commission for 13 years and is now at the Campaign Legal Centre, a DC-based advocacy group, said: "If there is evidence that representatives of a super PAC were soliciting or knowingly accepting foreign national money and helping arrange for it to get into the super PAC through a 501(c)(4) organisation, then it should be investigated by the FEC and by the Department of Justice as a criminal violation."
Of course, The Super Pac is denying any wrong doing!