And £75 million to Oxford University.
However, if he’s got money to spray around like like that, I’d be more interested in the workers he exploited to attain that wealth — just as with any native-born US or British multi-millionaire — than speculative government connections. The Oligarch Years weren’t Russia’s Times of Golden Memories.
And if Democrats, who also rely on rich people for both donations and policy directions, feel bad about that they ought personally to send more money to the DNC to equalize the spending. Not that they were hurting for cash since the old loon outspent the Trump by 50%.
It’s kind of odd for a proposition nation to protest the donations of a foreign-born American donor when they both insist that immigrants are American to the core once they convert, and that donations from the native-born, like say Billy Gates, who gives generously to both parties, are pure. Seems a bit racist.
Does that include the money spent by other people to support the candidates, or just what they spent themselves? If Trump spent ten million dollars on his campaign and “dark money” groups spent one hundred million, isn’t that one hundred ten million?
Oh good. The old “I’m not racist. You’re racist.” argument. Sorry but accusing somebody of bigotry doesn’t work unless there’s some truth to support it.
And here’s some more truth. The issue here isn’t whether foreign-born citizens should be allowed to donate money or services to American political campaigns. The issue is whether representatives of foreign governments should be allowed to donate money or services to American political campaigns. Funny how Trump supporters desperately want to divert the debate from the second topic to the first one.
Having considered it as impartially as you, I would like to see the *evidence *for this dark money, ( preferably not of the Kos standard of evidence, which rag is still slagging off Bernie, like old nuts in the 1860s obsessed with lost elections of the 1830s ). Particularly to Trump who was quite detested by the GOP types and paricularly the Kochs. And evidence dark money wasn’t equally funnelled to Hillary by your Wall Street Friends and banksters…
Funny how you assume Hillary haters are not simultaneously Trump haters.
One could say that the media’s job is to inform the public on matters of policy. If your policy flunks out with everyone the journalist talks to, then it probably doesn’t merit much discussion in the newspaper beyond letting the experts take it apart piece-by-piece. If you policy does merit discussion, then you might get a few articles out of it.
Safe to say, I’m relatively sure that this isn’t how it went down.
Even the big newspapers went in for gossip mongering, despite knowing that it went against their mandate and mission.