Two veteran Republican campaign operatives — including one who got a pardon from then-President Donald Trump one month before he left office — are charged in a new federal indictment with funneling $25,000 from a Russian national into the Trump campaign in 2016.
Jesse Benton, 43, and Doug Wead, 75, made brief appearances Monday at a video hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, pleading not guilty to six felony charges including facilitating a campaign contribution by a foreign national, acting as a straw donor and causing the filing of false campaign finance reports.
The grand jury indictment alleges that Benton and Wead worked together to accept $100,000 from an unidentified Russian national in order to get the foreigner a meeting with then-candidate Trump at a fundraiser in Philadelphia on Sept. 22, 2016.
Neither Trump nor his campaign are mentioned by name in the indictment, but details in the 19-page document make clear that the scheme involved seeking the donation in connection with the Trump event and an opportunity to get face to face with him.
For example, the indictment’s reference to […]
Unfortunately, Mr. Schwartz, there is no integrity in the Biden administration either. The Joe and Hunter Biden dishonesty remains deeply buried, and we have the dumbest President in history with Joe Biden. Here’s a man who failed third grade and failed ROTC! A man who who cheated his way through law school, and can’t give a speech without plagiarizing, a man clearly no better than Donald Trump. It’s time to stop whining about Trump,and Republicans and focus on the idiot who now occupies the White House!
Michael,
Behold! your ignorant, narcissist God!
P.S. and No! Colorado doesn’t have a border.
How can you not be embarrassed?
https://youtu.be/49kG7HfD-oM
Michael,
If the following video provided in my last response to you wasn’t enough,,,how about Trumps Covid Timeline, and 200,000+ DEATHS? Or is it because they are not your family, it really doesn’t seem to hit home with you?
https://youtu.be/R7mYxLTpa40
Michael —
I am getting tired of your willful ignorance and, frankly, general stupidity. You can’t fail third grade; after untold dollars of wasted money and endless attempts to make the case, there is nothing to the Hunter Biden story, and on and on with all your MAGAt nonsense. What we do know for certain is that Joe Biden was re-elected from 1972 to 2009 to the Senate six times by the voters of Delaware, and was generally recognized by them and his colleagues as a notably honest and effective senator. I will not allow you to use SR to push your MAGAt disinformation. Be warned.
— Stephan
It is literally unfathomable how may things Trump has flaunted in plain view of the public. But people are watching and the count is rising.
A capitol insurrection of domestic terrorism by his own followers, and 675,000 Covid deaths, should be enough for the most dim witted of human beings..
But there are still people out there that won’t even take the time to listen to what he’s said with his own mouth!
Maybe the Trump football fans willing to die for their team, will finally begin awakening to the real facts about the criminal activity in his business and in office -when he lands his self in prison. By the way, how many of his team has been sent to prison? disbarred? indicted?
It’s simple math.