Trumpco and RNC openly soliciting foreign funds?

[deminks]

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/invitations-offer-wealthy-chinese-access-to-president-trump-at-fundraiser/2018/05/25/3bc6a8ae-5e90-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b92c6e2865d9

Invitations offer wealthy Chinese access to President Trump at fundraiser

The letter, circulated to dozens of wealthy entrepreneurs in China last week, looked official. Topped with the insignia of a real Republican committee raising money for the party and President Trump’s reelection campaign, it purported to offer a handshake and a one-on-one photo with the president for $100,000 — a “VVIP” trip “to be remembered for a lifetime.”

The invitation, which Republican Party officials say they had nothing to do with, was not the only such offer. At least two other China-based companies circulated similar solicitations in the past week, offering access to Trump at an official fundraiser in Dallas on May 31, and charging two or three times the price of a ticket.

In an interview with The Washington Post, a Beijing man who claims to be an organizer of the excursion to Dallas said he coordinated a previous U.S. trip, bringing members of the Chinese business elite to snap selfies and pose for photos at a swanky Manhattan fundraiser headlined by Trump in December.

(snip)

A Republican Party official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss individuals at a private fundraiser said the Chinese visitors to the Dec. 2 gathering in New York — which encompassed several events, including a breakfast with Trump — were guests of a U.S. citizen donor, whom the official declined to name.

The Chinese guests had “minimal exposure to President Trump. They attended an event with hundreds of individuals and took a photo from a photo line,” the official said.

(end snip)

FYI Todd Ricketts - owner of Chicago Cubs, TD Ameritrade board member, and RNC Finance Chairman.

[OnDoutside]

1. It's a classic shakedown.

[duforsure]

5. I agree

[deminks]

2. Chinese organizer planned to give ticket money to RNC

from the WAPO article:

Sun Changchun, who described himself as the head of a Chinese cultural exchange company, is promoting the Dallas event on WeChat, a Chinese messaging service. He claimed to have arranged both the Dallas and New York trips. He told The Post that he planned to give the Dallas ticket proceeds to the RNC, but provided no evidence to substantiate that assertion or any relationship with the RNC. His understanding, he said, was that the RNC would in turn donate the money to charity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/invitations-offer-wealthy-chinese-access-to-president-trump-at-fundraiser/2018/05/25/3bc6a8ae-5e90-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b92c6e2865d9

[Achilleaze]

3. republicans are so freaking greedy that they giddily sell out America

repubes are betraying America and American democracy for money money money money.

This image kinda looks like republican family-values role model Dirty Donny* wearing a (gasp) tan suit.

* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. The mixing of those fonts is criminal also...

Good god will the corruption never end?

[kentuck]

6. Corruption beyond the imagination

The money-laundering Party.

[tanyev]

7. I'm thinking their fundraising emails to foreign lawmakers during the campaign was not incompetence.

Not merely incompetence, anyway.

[mopinko]

8. i notice that has gone down the memory hole.

so hard to keep up.

[spanone]

9. Is this remotely legal?