Trump's legal team gave thousands in contributions to Republican senators ahead of impeachment trial
Source: Salon
Trump's lawyers also gave thousands to Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and Ted Cruz before the trial began.
President Trump's legal team made numerous campaign contributions to Republican senators overseeing the impeachment trial.
Former independent counsels Ken Starr and Robert Ray, who both investigated former President Bill Clinton ahead of his impeachment, contributed thousands of dollars to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last year before they joined the president's team, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics (CFPR). Starr, who lamented that "we are living in
the age of impeachment" during the trial on Monday and accused Democrats of waging a "domestic war," gave $2,800 to McConnell in July 2019, according to CFPR.
Ray, who wanted to indict Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair but now claims Trump has been vindicated by the transcript of his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, contributed the maximum $5,600 to McConnell in September 2019, according to the report.
The contributions came months before McConnell bragged to Fox News host Sean Hannity that he would be in "total coordination with the White House counsel's office and the people who are representing the president in the well of the Senate."
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2020/01/29/trumps-legal-team-gave-thousands-in-contributions-to-republican-senators-ahead-of-impeachment-trial/
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)grumpyduck
(6,240 posts)One, it needs to be prominently disclosed in the MSM.
Two, I hope Amy McGrath whips Kentucky Fried Turtle's ass.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)ScratchCat
(1,990 posts)The bamboozling continues
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)sakabatou
(42,158 posts)Lock him up.
(6,933 posts)Is still true. But This? The Accused can buy the Jurors??
Get money OUT of politics!
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)Steelrolled
(2,022 posts)This is how the US government has worked for ages. We're far from the worst, and far from the best.