Trump Now Hitting Iceland MPs for Cash
By JOSH MARSHALL
JUNE 28, 2016, 11:47 PM EDT
Today TPM's Caitlin MacNeal brought us the news that Donald Trump and his scion Donald Trump Jr have been bombarding members of the UK House of Commons with fundraising email spam asking for contributions to his political campaign. He even offers to match their illegal foreign contributions dollar for dollar from his own fortune up to two million dollars.
Accepting contributions from foreign nationals is illegal of course though in this case it seems more a matter of incompetence than criminal intent, as though Trump has bought his email list not for a party list vendor but maybe from a Nigerian email scammer. In any case, it's not just the UK. It turns out some or perhaps all members of the Icelandic parliament have also receiving fundraising emails from the Trump campaign asking for money.
Imagine what a proud moment this is for you as an American ...
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incompetence a bad name. Even bottom-level clerk somewhere in that operation might have googled something about this and realized it was probably illegal. Whatever.
The Donald just finally hired a second- or third-tier professional communications director (who promptly deleted his #SleazyDonald tweets), and in all likelihood the FEC is going to be joining the GOP in encouraging him to hire a fundraising professional to keep him out of trouble also.
He's also hired a 30-year-old "policy advisor," formerly of Rep Sen Jeff Sessions' office, "ardent Trump supporter and anti-immigration activist, who has a decades long history of fighting multiculturalism in the United States."
