Money Is King in US Elections

The American elections – whether presidential, congressional or senatorial – are a conflict of money. Not of principles and positions, or the right and the left, or liberalism and conservatism.

I offer the reader today some information. All of the information comes from American sources,* and they clearly demonstrate that my aforementioned opinion is right.

Political action committees fund electoral campaigns; some of them are identified as "super,” reflecting the greatness of their financial capability. At this point, these committees have received over $600 million, meaning they will exceed the $828 million received during the 2012 elections.

Any donor who doesn't want their name to be known gives money to a "company" that donates on their behalf. These companies are not forced to reveal their financial sources.

I have read a list of the top 50 election campaign donors. At the top of this list is Tom Steyer, who has given $17 million at this point. Number two on the list was the Wilks family, brothers Dan and Farris, the second of which is pastor of a conservative, Messianic Israelite church. Among the top ten donors on the list, I spotted eight Jewish names, maybe nine. The next top ten donors were all American Jews. I got help from someone I worked with at "Al Hayat,” and we found that, among the top 50 donors, 37 are American Jews. Jews in the United States represent two, maybe three, percent of the population, but they represent 74 percent of donors – an absolute majority.

There are millionaires and billionaires among every sect and sex in the United States, including Arabs, but they don't get behind any issues, except themselves.

Brothers David and Charles Koch will spend an unreal amount of money in the elections. I did see a huge figure cited, but I won't state it here because I was not able to confirm it. They are trying to convince Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to enter the race, but he excused himself when it was found that he doesn't possess enough popular support. I read that the brothers might end up supporting Hillary Clinton's campaign.

There is a super PAC supporting Clinton that has allocated $90 million to use in television campaign advertising after the primary elections end in California on June 7, aimed at attacking the Republican candidates and their policies. Clinton remains the top supported candidate, whose campaign has received close to $250 million.

Some of the billionaire Jews are supporting Hillary Clinton's campaign, perhaps the most prominent being Haim Saban. He always donates to her, and it is believed that he has joined an inner ring of advisers to Clinton.

The Committee for American Sovereignty, an electoral lobby, will raise $20 million by July to support Donald Trump's campaign.

I have read that Hillary Clinton is prepared to choose a woman to be her vice presidential running mate, should she be nominated by the Democratic Party, and Elizabeth Warren, who has hoped one day to receive the nomination, could be Clinton's choice for the position. That would be a mistake. The American voter wants to choose a woman to be president, for the first time since their independence in 1776. Choosing two women exceeds the bounds of logic.

*Translator's note: The author does not cite sources.