Posted on 02/18/2023 12:51:27 PM PST by RandFan
A GOP political operative was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for his involvement in transferring illegal campaign contributions from a Russian national to former President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
A Justice Department release states that Jesse Benton planned with another political adviser to send political contributions from the Russian national, who wanted to meet with and take a picture with Trump, to the campaign. Benton then arranged for the individual to meet with and take a picture with Trump without revealing their nationality to the campaign or Trump, court documents state.
The release states Benton had the individual send $100,000 to Benton’s political consulting firm to make the contribution so they could meet with Trump. Benton created a fake invoice to claim the funds were payment for consulting work.
He contributed $25,000 to the campaign and kept the remaining $75,000 for himself, according to the release.
Benton presented himself as the contributor, according to the department, which it said caused Trump campaign entities to state in their reports to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that Benton was the source of the contribution instead of the Russian individual.
Benton was convicted for funneling the illegal contributions to the campaign in November.
He has previously worked for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). He was convicted in May 2016 of campaign finance crimes for paying an Iowa state senator to support Ron Paul in the 2012 presidential election and was sentenced to two years of probation and six months of home confinement. Trump pardoned him in December 2020.
Remember when the Obama campaign removed all country-of-origin checking for credit card contributions?
Didn’t Bill Clinton give away or sell cheaply our missile technology to the Chinese,for campaign contributions? Was that ever investigated?
Of course not.
Yes. SUPER DUPER SPACE MAN AMERICAN HERO John Glenn attended the hearing which was ignored by the media except for the one day when the rats found a Republican they could roast.
You can sell America’s uranium to Russia, but don’t accept a campaign contribution (unless you use the Clinton Crime Foundation)
Nuclear weapons designs, missile guidance tech and who knows what else.
Treason.
Pure and simple.
Or unless you use Hunter Biden or UPENN.
Yet Hunter roams free…..
Charlie Trie, funneled millions to Al Gore.
I wonder what ever happened to SBF.
Just another reason why Trump is too tainted to get re-elected. Mostly because of his personality though.
It is imperative that we win in 2024
Agree...I’m tired of politics 24/7.
Trump is too tainted? I bet the globalist and the Insiders stooges agree with you.
Was this a DC jury?
Yeah, let’s get rid of outsider Trump. Let’s get back to lawyers turned professional politicians controlling everything. Let’s get back to drooling in cups and watching reruns of Hee Haw.
We need lawyers not leaders!
A shame the corrupt DOJ doesn’t go after democrat supporters like they do Trump supporters.
No, not this. He had nothing to do with this crime.
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