Originally posted by: MisterPicture
Benny Johnson, one of the recipients of as much as $400,000 PER WEEK - from a hostile foreign government trying to meddle in our elections - has 6.6 million followers across Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Tim Poole accepted similar funds and is so prominent that one of his guests earlier this year was Trump himself. They discussed how our support of Ukraine might start World War III.
Now show me how anyone on my side - in history - has ever behaved like that.
Well, in point of fact, from 1936 to 1939, we had several prominent corporate "ambassadors" from Germany as well as a fervently pro-Nazi AMERICAN political organization. These "influencers" and their economic/political clout were a major reason (along with good old anti-Semitism) why we never offered asylum/refuge to more than a handful of European Jews. See the story of the "Bremen" and its doomed passengers if you want to know how horribly noble America behaved.
So unfortunately, money still talks and when coupled with intrigue/espionage/"influencing," it shouts.