Foreign Governments Sometimes Also Want to Influence U.S. Elections Too

Foreign governments and corproations have long sought to influence U.S. elections. The recent news about Russian efforts to get Donald Trump would not be revealing a rare event if true. The Clintons and their foundations have received foreign support and donations for quite a time. Hacking is I would think a cheap way to go about influencing election cycles. Though the Democrat party influence of the broadcast media and bully’s pulpit power of the President to pack courts and lever homosexual marriage even getting hate crimes legislation that would let democrats decribe opponents as ‘haters’ should not be overlooked. I.M.O. there should be equal protection of the law instead of special categories comprising ‘hate crimes’ as a sort of humna version of game laws with various species having different protections.

Here is a link to a good brief article on the history of direct foreign influence on U.S. elections

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/24842-foreign-influence-in-u-s-elections-goes-back-to-the-founding

Obviously political action committees can be financed by U.S. branches of foreign corporations. That is, if nation A opens a storefront in the U.S.A. in can give cash to support their favorites. Gruppo Salinas of Mexico via a U.S. subsidiary- funded the pac Advance America Cash  Centers for instance, providing, $83,000.

Here is a list of some recent PACS and the source of their funding

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/foreign.php