Rand Paul & Mitch McConnell advisor Jessie Benton sentenced to prison for laundering Russian money into Trump’s campaign as part of the GOP effort to frame Trump for Russian collusion.
#ButNothingsHappening
Trump pardoned Benton for an earlier campaign offense (buying endorsements for Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential campaign) while FBI & DOJ investigated his efforts to frame Trump.
Did he try to use the Russian cash as leverage against Trump? It backfired!
Two weeks before the 2016 election, Benton was ‘caught’ in an October Surprise video offering to launder $2M from China into a ‘pro-Trump’ SuperPAC.
In reality, the Chinese representatives were working for a British newspaper.
nytimes.com/2016/10/25/us/…
Benton & other GOP operatives got Trump to unwittingly pose with Roman Vasilenko, a Russian reserve naval officer who probably works for Russian intelligence.
They set up Trump to meet a Russian spy who illegally donated to Trump’s campaign.
A perfect set up for the Swamp to compromise or impeach Trump in 2017.
forensicnews.net/decorated-russ…
Vasilenko met with Trump on behalf of Putin’s propaganda team. They got video to use in their failed effort to compromise Trump.
Wead & Benton were both indicted last year.
It gets worse. The GOP PAC & FEC agreed to throw Benton under the bus & let the PAC escape.
Then FEC governors (appointed by the Swamp) refused to confirm the charges against him & let him go too!
fec.gov/files/legal/mu…
Jessie Benton is married to one of Ron Paul’s granddaughters.
But he was clearly the junior partner in this crime to his co-defendant Doug Wead who was a senior advisor to President George H. W. Bush.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Wead
While Benton was convicted in November, Doug Wead died of a massive stroke & was taken off life support on 12/10/22 before his trial.
Doug Wead advised George W. Bush.
Wead secretly recorded the conversations with W. without Bush’s knowledge. Sounds Swampy…
Wead helped Bush win in 2000. He was considered a Bush family insider.
Then he joined the Ron Paul & Rand Paul teams.
He also made false allegations against Obama that he blamed on a misunderstanding with his source.
Wead publicized the secret Bush tapes to the New York Times after Bush was inaugurated for his 2nd term. Wead released some of the tapes which seem to contain lots of good oppo research material.
Wonder if it implied a threat to release more to harm Bush?
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