{"id":131135,"date":"2016-07-20T05:40:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/yuge-donations-yuge.html"},"modified":"2016-07-20T05:40:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:40:10","slug":"yuge-donations-yuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/yuge-donations-yuge.html","title":{"rendered":"Yuge donations! Yuge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump made a lot of noise about how he was not beholden to anyone because he was (in the primaries, at least, and kinda-sorta) not taking any big donations, but was running a campaign using (kinda-sorta) his own money. The message was clear: big donations are inherently corrupting, so trust the guy who who&#39;s rich enough that he (kinda-sorta) doesn&#39;t need to take them.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes one wonder, of course, why then the Trump-approved GOP platform calls for <i>getting rid of<\/i> campaign donation limitations, disclosures, or any whiff of public financing of campaigns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/07\/19\/gop-platform-calls-for-elimination-of-almost-all-campaign-finance-laws\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/ShevSQvpn6yei0IFvRySg6iUlFmXrT9y0euYI576AZbmnnOrYhrouaFmv76lS3uG1_Phx-xziZW7mlPY_pZI6Wva8n7pDnR7QnhqM4fSqEuvW_UXGWy8aMlJA3dmzl_Zn1WrTwDbv_L7Y2uykQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/07\/19\/gop-platform-calls-for-elimination-of-almost-all-campaign-finance-laws\/'>GOP Platform Calls for Elimination of Almost All Campaign Finance Laws<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTrump never cared about big money politics, and in fact wants to make the situation far worse.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/3mkSVFk5738'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump made a lot of noise about how he was not beholden to anyone because he was (in the primaries, at least, and kinda-sorta) not taking any big donations, but was running a campaign using (kinda-sorta) his own money. The message was clear: big donations are inherently corrupting, so trust the guy who who&#39;s rich &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/yuge-donations-yuge.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yuge donations! 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