Let’s look at this in light of prior similar investigations:
Sad!
More on wealthy Republican donors:
Sheldon Adelson contributed $30 million to prevent Democrats from taking over the House.
9/24/18 update on Adelson:
The law prevents Paul Ryan from directly soliciting this large a donation so Ryan stepped out of the room when someone else asked for and received the money. How sleazy can you get? And yes, the Democrats would do it too.
Ryan gave them credit for supporting the law.
Democrats are questioning the influence of the Koch brothers.
An opinion column by Senator Whitehouse about the influence of billionaires on Trump.
The EPA granted a hardship waiver to Icahn, a former Trump adviser.
The Mercers helped fund Project Veritas
Mercers update 12/29/18:
Richard Uihlein, a relatively unknown donor
update on Uihlein
Another article on Uihlein and his wife
Don’t tell me about George Soros funding liberal causes. Look what these people are doing. We need the Supreme Court to get big money out of politics by reversing the Citizens United decision but that won’t happen anytime soon.
Sad!
They put politics ahead of public health. Sad!
The Washington Post provides background on Robert Jeffress.
Mitt Romney summed it up well:
Trump is a bigot and associates with bigots. This was a terrible choice.
Sad!
Update: More on Jeffress and Rev. John Hagee
The article states: “A Dallas evangelical pastor who once said that Jewish people are going to hell and a megachurch televangelist who claimed that Hitler was part of God’s plan to return Jews to Israel both played prominent roles on Monday in the opening ceremony of the new American Embassy in Jerusalem.”
Sad!
Sad! 