Substantive History of Foreign Influence on U.S. Elections

Foreign governments and corporations have long sought to influence U.S. elections. The recent news about Russian efforts to get Donald Trump would not be revealing a rare event if true. The Clintons and their foundations have received foreign support and donations for quite a time. Hacking is I would think a cheap way to go about influencing election cycles. Though the Democrat party influence of the broadcast media and bully's pulpit power of the President to pack courts and lever homosexual marriage even getting hate crimes legislation that would let democrats describe opponents as 'haters' should not be overlooked. I.M.O. there should be equal protection of the law instead of special categories comprising 'hate crimes' as a sort of human version of game laws with various species having different protections.

Russia's Vladimir Putin is being represented as an extraordinary influence on U.S. elections especially the Trump vs. Clinton campaign. Yet of course, it is only because hacked e-mails were distributed to WikiLeaks that we even know about the perfidy and lack of security awareness of Hillary Clinton while at State-except obviously for the somnolent response to the Benghazi crisis. China and perhaps dozens of other nations may also have cloned her smart phone software-who knows?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/declassified-report-putin-ordered-campaign-to-influence-election/ar-BBxZbvk

It is likely that the left are very concerned since the Obama administration has not been on good terms with Russia as the Obama administration sought to develop the Syrian civil war and follow up on Bill Clinton's levering Boris Yeltsin to give up Ukraine for nothing...it has value to Wall Street.

Here is a link to a good brief article on the history of direct foreign influence on U.S. elections

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/24842-foreign-influence-in-u-s-elections-goes-back-to-the-founding

Obviously political action committees can be financed by U.S. branches of foreign corporations. That is, if nation A opens a storefront in the U.S.A. in can give cash to support their favorites. Gruppo Salinas of Mexico via a U.S. subsidiary- funded the pac Advance America Cash Centers for instance, providing, $83,000.

Here is a list of some recent PACS and the source of their funding

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/foreign.php