Broidy

  It seems this case should have closed years ago-- but this isn't a TV show like The Balcklist and well-connected, crooked multimillionaires have a way of drawing these things out forever. No doubt Broidy expects to be eventually pardoned by Trump. Broidy is going to plead guilty to relatively minor crimes involved in failure to disclose that he was a lobbyist attempting to stop a US criminal investigation into a multi-billion dollar fraud at a Malaysian investment fund, while protecting Trump and the Mercer family from far more serious charges involving the Saudis and Emeratis.

I believe the first time I heard of Elliott Broidy was when the NY Times revealed him to be working with a very right-wing shady Mercer family SuperPAC, Secure America Now (SAN), which Broidy was using to leverage the Trump regime into filling key positions with individuals favorable to-- meaning, like Broidy himself, bought off by-- the Saudi and UAE governments. Mercer was one of just 4 uber-wealthy far-right and very crooked contributors providing SAN with the millions of dollars it needed for its entirely nefarious projects.

Trump always claimed he would relate to government the same way he related to business— in into win it. Only an idiot would have ever thought there were any norms he would respect, any rules he would allow to hamper him. He ran his businesses like a criminal enterprise and he certainly ran his campaign in the same way. Can it still be a surprise to anyone that his campaign was awash in foreign money, primarily from forces seeking to harm America?

Over the last decade, everyone has become aware of the Koch brothers and the damage they have been doing to America. Fewer people had heard about the Mercers-- a father/daughter team, that is far more venal and far more dedicated to implanting fascism on American soil. At least as much as Putin, the Mercers are responsible for putting Trump in the White House.