Bernie Sanders Colluded With A Foreign Government During Presidential Campiagn

After a year and a half of hearing about how Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the presidential election away from Hillary Clinton without a shred of proof, there is finally some concrete evidence that a presidential candidate did collude with a foreign government. Unfortunately for the hysterical left, it’s not Trump but rather Bernie Sanders. Yup the socialist kook who has accused President Trump of collusion was actually just fined by the FEC for illegally receive aid from a foreign government.

In a recently filled Federal Election Commission report, we learn that in 2015 Sanders’ campaign was approached by the Australian Labor Party about sending some volunteers to help Bernie’s bid for president. Of course Bernie said yes, because he’s a socialist and who is more socialist than people from anything called the labor party?

Where Sanders ran onto trouble is that the Aussie LP paid for the volunteers to fly to America and gave them a stipend to live on. I know that socialists like Sanders don’t understand how money works, but it’s actually against the law for a presidential candidate to accept cash from a foreign government. With the Australian volunteers being financed by the Australian Labor Party, it’s the same thing as Bernie taking in big sacks of money from faction of the Australian government.

All told the FEC says Sanders’ campaign received $25,000 from the Australians. Sanders and his campaign were aware that the Australian LPers were being paid by the government, but didn’t think it was a big deal, because as I already said, socialists don’t understand jack-squat about money.

The FEC fined Sanders $14,500 in civil penalties for violating campaign law, which seems like nothing. It should at least be the amount he received in aid, plus some punitive fines to make sure people don’t do this kind of thing again.

You may have noticed by the complete lack of coverage by the liberal media that this doesn’t appear to be that big of a story. Try replacing “Australia” with “Russia” and “Bernie Sanders” with “Donald Trump” and suddenly you’d have the biggest story of the Trump presidency. It’s amazing how things are only outrageous when they are done by non-liberals, isn’t it?

This comes on the heels of another big Sanders-related story that the liberal media ignored. When special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians for meddling in the 2016 presidential election one of the hardly reported details was that Sanders’ campaign benefitted from the Russian attempts to influence the election. Again, very weird how the media treats Trump like a criminal but doesn’t bat an eye at Bernie.

If you are keeping score at home: Bernie Sanders is a socialist who also happens to be wealthy and owns three mansions. He has made his political career all about attacking the big banks for doing illegal and unethical things and yet is under investigation for bank fraud. He has accused President Trump of colluding with a foreign government in the 2016 election with no proof, but actually did collude with a foreign government himself. That’s a hypocrisy hat-trick. Whoever bet that Bernie trifecta just got a huge payday.

Good job FEC. Now do Hillary.

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