There are, among us, a small number of individuals who are career criminals. Over the last 40 years, career criminals like Trump have increasingly moved out of the business world and the streets and into politics, something for which we can thank the Supreme Court.

Although it's rapidly being eclipsed by his theft and probable sale to foreign dictators of classified documents. So much money is sloshing around in our political system - both what we know of and the billions in truly dark money that we know nothing about - that honest politicians are buried and actual criminals are stepping up.ĭonald Trump's phone call to Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was probably the clearest illustration of this recent incarnation of his lifelong criminality. Leonard Leo, head of The Federalist Society so famous for providing Trump and McConnell with rightwing judges to pack federal courts and the Supreme Court, recently received a $1.6 billion contribution, tax-free. Ralph Reed's Faith & Freedom Coalition, we learned Wednesday, is going to spend $42 million on the midterm elections, focusing on flipping evangelical Hispanics toward the GOP.

Republicans in the Senate yesterday killed legislation passed through the House that would require 'dark money' to be publicly disclosed: not a single Republican voted for it, although every Democrat in attendance did.

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