I was just driving and heard CBS News on the radio. The announcer reported on the news flash that Donna Brazile is saying that Hillary Clinton had signed an agreement with the DNC to control that body in exchange for fund raising help. CBS reported that Brazile says the agreement was "not illegal" but was improper nevertheless.
This report by CBS News is important because it means that the network is finally covering this story. The story has been out for three days already; it is actually old news. For the first few days, however, none of the mainstream TV networks covered it. Now, however, there is just too much here to ignore. Even so, CBS is not covering the story properly; the network is still trying to cover things up for the Clintons. Let me explain: the key to this Clinton/DNC agreement is that is was signed iin the summer of 2015, six months before the primary/caucus season began in Iowa in 2016. That means that Hillary Clinton took control of the DNC about a year before she was nominated at the convention. She took control of the DNC long before voters had been able to select the winner of the Democrat nomination process. She took control of the DNC and that means she was able to have the DNC work towards her own nomination and work against Bernie Sanders and the other candidates for the nomination. Simply put, Hillary and the DNC rigged the process to favor her rather than Bernie. CBS still is not reporting this part of the story.
Then there's the second part of the story. Under the agreement that Brazile disclosed, the DNC and the state Democrat parties shared in the funds raised by the Clinton campaign, but then both the DNC and the state parties kicked almost all of the funds back to the Clinton campaign. Despite what Brazile says, this seems to be an illegal scheme to avoid the law regarding contribution limits and disclosure. American law says that no individual can contribute more than $2500 to a presidential candidate during the primaries and a like amount during the general election. You can contribute more to the party, but those funds are supposed to be controlled by the party, not the candidate. Normally, contributions to the party are made once the candidate has been chosen. Under the Hillary/DNC agreement, a person could give -- during the primary -- $2500 to Clinton and $10,000 to each of the DNC and the state parties that also signed the agreement. That comes to something like $350,000. It also means that of that $350,000, something like $340,000 would go to the Clinton campaign. Think of that; instead of the $2500 maximum contribution specified by law, a person could give Hillary $340,000. That's illegal; that's very illegal. CBS, of course, mentioned none of this.
Still, the idea that CBS is now leading its newscast with the story is newsworthy in itself. The network finally recognizes that it will not be able to bury this story. My guess is that we will soon see more news here as the DOJ starts an investigation into this matter. First we learn that Hillary paid for the Trump dossier and hid the payments by improperly describing them as being for legal services. Now we learn that Hillary turned the DNC into an organization for money laundering so that the campaign contribution limits could be avoided. It's starting to look like there could be the basis for a RICO indictment.
This report by CBS News is important because it means that the network is finally covering this story. The story has been out for three days already; it is actually old news. For the first few days, however, none of the mainstream TV networks covered it. Now, however, there is just too much here to ignore. Even so, CBS is not covering the story properly; the network is still trying to cover things up for the Clintons. Let me explain: the key to this Clinton/DNC agreement is that is was signed iin the summer of 2015, six months before the primary/caucus season began in Iowa in 2016. That means that Hillary Clinton took control of the DNC about a year before she was nominated at the convention. She took control of the DNC long before voters had been able to select the winner of the Democrat nomination process. She took control of the DNC and that means she was able to have the DNC work towards her own nomination and work against Bernie Sanders and the other candidates for the nomination. Simply put, Hillary and the DNC rigged the process to favor her rather than Bernie. CBS still is not reporting this part of the story.
Then there's the second part of the story. Under the agreement that Brazile disclosed, the DNC and the state Democrat parties shared in the funds raised by the Clinton campaign, but then both the DNC and the state parties kicked almost all of the funds back to the Clinton campaign. Despite what Brazile says, this seems to be an illegal scheme to avoid the law regarding contribution limits and disclosure. American law says that no individual can contribute more than $2500 to a presidential candidate during the primaries and a like amount during the general election. You can contribute more to the party, but those funds are supposed to be controlled by the party, not the candidate. Normally, contributions to the party are made once the candidate has been chosen. Under the Hillary/DNC agreement, a person could give -- during the primary -- $2500 to Clinton and $10,000 to each of the DNC and the state parties that also signed the agreement. That comes to something like $350,000. It also means that of that $350,000, something like $340,000 would go to the Clinton campaign. Think of that; instead of the $2500 maximum contribution specified by law, a person could give Hillary $340,000. That's illegal; that's very illegal. CBS, of course, mentioned none of this.
Still, the idea that CBS is now leading its newscast with the story is newsworthy in itself. The network finally recognizes that it will not be able to bury this story. My guess is that we will soon see more news here as the DOJ starts an investigation into this matter. First we learn that Hillary paid for the Trump dossier and hid the payments by improperly describing them as being for legal services. Now we learn that Hillary turned the DNC into an organization for money laundering so that the campaign contribution limits could be avoided. It's starting to look like there could be the basis for a RICO indictment.
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