Opinion: Trump is the Culmination of All That Has Gone Wrong in Our Politics

We might never have known about the shenanigans of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, U.S. citizens born respectively in Ukraine and Belarus, absent a complaint to the Federal Election Commission from the intrepid watchdogs at the Campaign Legal Center in July 2018. Trevor Potter, the center’s president, said in an interview that his group noticed a May 17, 2018, contribution of $325,000 from a limited liability corporation, Global Energy Producers (GEP) to America First Action, Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC. GEP seemed to have no real business purpose, and Potter and his colleagues suspected it was a shell company, which is what it turned out to be.

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