Terry McAuliffe may win in Virginia’s blue state on Tuesday. But the candidate for governor has had an awful month. It’s been one self-inflicted wound after another. In what I consider a coordinated smear yesterday, Virginia Democrat Party employees were found posing in the disguise of white supremacist supporter of Republican Glenn Youngkin.
Then there were the accusations of racism, the doubling down on trashing concerned parents, and McAuliffe’s attempt to kill a damaging story showing his campaign paid money to election conspiracy kook Marc Elias. I could keep going, but I won’t — while noting that there are several more examples of such strategic brilliance occurring in just the last week.
A new story now emerges. McAuliffe’s campaign appears to have possibly taken $350,000 from a foreign entity. McAuliffe’s campaign is also linked to money-laundering schemes.
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Watchdog Hits @TerryMcAuliffeA Campaign Finance Complaint Against Foreign Contributions
Campaign took $350k from foreign-owned company linked to money launderinghttps://t.co/SlYdtW5kap
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) October 30, 2021
“Terry McAuliffe has a history of accepting foreign contributions. The FEC must fully investigate these serious charges that he accepted $350,000 in illegal foreign contributions for his current campaign,” said Washington, D.C. attorney, Paul Kamenar, counsel to NLPC, who drafted and filed the complaint with the FEC.
LycaTel LLC was owned by AllirajahSubaskaran, a Sri Lankan-British national. McAuliffe received $350,000 from LycaTel LLC in July. Free Beacon first reported in early October. The company is a New Jersey subsidiary of Subaskaran’s U.K.-based telecom conglomerate, which boasts a complicated web of offshore businesses and has been the subject of tax-fraud and money-laundering charges in France.
Whether this is actually illegal or just extremely unethical would depend on what an actual investigation finds, and we all know there won’t be one, because this is a Democrat we are talking about. If the American-based subsidiary made the donation without receiving any instructions from foreign leaders, it could be considered legal. That’s a very gray area, though, and one ripe for abuse. My part is skeptical that this New Jersey-based telecom firm just found Terry McAuliffe in Virginia.
If there exists a more perfect scam to launder foreign cash to an American politician, I’m not aware of it. McAuliffe’s campaign has been an absolute dumpster fire from the beginning so I wouldn’t put anything past him. McAuliffe is unsure of his future political prospects despite the influence of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and he lives on life-support in an area he should have been winning.
Most Virginians are more savvy than Democrats believe. Youngkin’s momentum has been given by voters instead of being divided along party lines to give McAuliffe an easy victory. This is even true in Alexandria where McAuliffe held another well-attended, high-energy rally. If there’s any electoral justice left out there, and I’m not sure there is, Youngkin will put McAuliffe away next week. If that happens, it’ll be a great day for Virginia and the country as a whole.
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