{"id":49949,"date":"2023-04-11T09:59:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49949"},"modified":"2023-04-11T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:59:16","slug":"while-we-were-all-wondering-about-president-trumps-campaign-spending-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49949","title":{"rendered":"While We Were All Wondering About President Trump&#8217;s Campaign Spending Violations&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/luis-cornelio\/2023\/04\/06\/evening-nets-ignore-how-ccp-tied-financier-tried-funnel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsbusters<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>ABC, CBS and NBC took a stand on a potential scandal involving tens of millions in reportedly stolen money and former President Barack Obama\u2019s 2012 campaign: We won\u2019t report on this.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Hollywood actor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeoDiCaprio\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>\u00a0testified on April 3 that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jho_low\">Jho Low<\/a>\u00a0\u2014a Malaysian financier tied to the Communist Chinese Party\u2014 plotted a scheme to funnel between $20-$30 million to Obama\u2019s 2012 re-election campaign,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/03\/leonardo-dicaprio-testifies-in-fugees-lobbying-trial-that-financier-jho-low-tried-to-funnel-30m-to-obama\/\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the<em> New York Post <\/em>April 3. Low, a close friend of DiCaprio and now fugitive, allegedly recruited 90s rapper<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrasMichel\">\u00a0Prakazrel \u201cPras\u201d Michel<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cfunnel the money to Obama\u2019s reelection bid as foreigners cannot donate to US campaigns under federal election law.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>According to the <em>Post<\/em>, \u201cMuch of the money was reportedly stolen. Low is accused of embezzling a whopping $4.5 billion from Malaysia\u2019s\u201d state investment fund. \u201c\u2018It was a significant sum \u2014 something to the tune of $20-30 million,\u2019 DiCaprio testified. \u2018I said, \u201cWow that\u2019s a lot of money!\u201d\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>ABC\u2019s <em>World News Tonight<\/em>, <em>CBS Evening News<\/em> and <em>NBC Nightly News<\/em> however, treated the story like it didn\u2019t exist during their April 3, April 4 and April 5 evening broadcasts, perhaps because it would involve making their darling former president look bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Additional witnesses reportedly testified after DiCaprio\u2019s testimony \u201cthat Michel had wired them thousands and asked them to make shadow donations to the [Obama] campaign.&#8221; Apparently, none of this damning information was worth any coverage by the Big Three.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will not be able to elect people who will do their jobs until the mainstream media supplies the information Americans need to vote intelligently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Newsbusters reported: ABC, CBS and NBC took a stand on a potential scandal involving tens of millions in reportedly stolen money and former President Barack Obama\u2019s 2012 campaign: We won\u2019t report on this. 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