About on the same level as the Chinese influence (er bribery) of the Clinton administration and Clinton's bribery of the Israeli elections that brought the traitor Barak to power.
I appreciate your twist of analogy. Regardless, Billy couldn't have used that excuse, as a means to re-confirm another term as a US President. Then again, Vlad doesn't have a Hillary to eat him alive- does he? By the by, the foreign funds accepted are never for political influence- just social pograms.