The President’s flagship political action committee paid more than $900,000 to a digital data firm connected to President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, according to reports from ABC News and CNN Friday evening.
“Red StateStar is a valued vendor that provides us with digital consulting services at a competitive rate,” America First Action spokesperson Kelly Sadler told ABC News.
The problem is where to situate a scandalous breach of PAC rules in the scandal and law-enforcement landscape. The situation is so chaotic, the collapse of House oversight so complete, that at this point there is almost nothing to be done about any of it. Once you have made it clear–as Pelosi, Neal, and Nadler have–that the breakdown in the constitutional and political order is acceptable to the so-called party of opposition, everything and anything goes. There’s almost no point in reporting this stuff.
I wish you were right. Name me one effective and proportionate use of the House’s oversight powers. One instance when the flagrant law-breaking has met with an appropriate response. Seriously. I can’t think of one.
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Citing campaign finance records, ABC News reported that the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action has paid Red State $909,871 with much of that money spent on midterm congressional candidates ahead of the 2018 midterms.
If they don’t want to concern themselves with the ethics and dubious legality of the situation, they should at least care about losing a whopping 41 House seats in 2018. Mazel tov, Mr. Parscale! Oh, and you too Mrs. Parscale. It’s so refreshing these days to see families doing things together.