Republican Donald Drumpf needs help paying for his US presidential campaign - and he's been asking foreign politicians to cough up. His efforts (which are likely the result of poorly culled lists and not a ham-handed attempt to violate US law) appear to be generating more anger than interest, however - and even if he did find a receptive audience overseas, any financial assistance he receives would be a violation of US law. Even the act of asking could get the Drumpf camp a rebuke from the US government.
Members of parliament in the UK, Iceland, Canada and Australia have reported that they are being inundated on their official government emails accounts with fund-raising pleas from the Drumpf campaign - some from the candidate himself and others from his sons. One pitch praised British voters for voting to leave the European Union, heralding that they had "taken their country back" - a line Mr Drumpf himself used while talking to the press at one of his golf courses in Scotland.
Oops ! Still think we should have banned him, but now, as a Brit, I can no longer claim moral superiority in any political debate with an American. Bloomin' idiotic fascists won't let me have any fun. :(
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36599724
That's hysterical, but he is in a pickle as his entire brand in the US is that he's so rich he doesn't need support from anyone. As such, it'll be politically risky to ask his own supporters for money.
ReplyDeleteHe really should be soliciting non-allied countries. If they really want to bring the US to its knees, putting Trump in office would be their best shot.
> as a Brit, I can no longer claim moral superiority in any political debate with an American
ReplyDeleteOh cheer up; now you can be happy if he gets elected! It'll be a restoration of the natural order of things.
Putin likes him...
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