Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker took $1 million from Russia. Then Donald Trump shockingly won the state.
This week the mainstream media exposed that during the course of the Donald Trump campaign’s collusion meeting with Russia at Trump Tower, there was a discussion of unspecified “donations” from Russia to the Republican National Committee. The details are still unclear. But months ago it was confirmed that several Republicans took money from a pro-Kremlin oligarch during the 2016 cycle. One of them happens to run a state that Donald Trump won in nearly impossible fashion.
Back in May of 2017, Palmer Report reported on the documentation that showed several Republican office holders took money from a pro-Kremlin oligarch during the 2016 election cycle (link). Months later, the Dallas Morning News confirmed our reporting (link). The donations were technically legal because the Kremlin oligarch had dual U.S. citizenship and because the money was funneled through Super PACs. But it was all highly suspicious. The most suspicious donation of all was $1 million given to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Why would the Kremlin go through one of its oligarchs to steer a million dollars to a Republican Governor in a fairly small state like Wisconsin? Sure, Walker briefly ran for President in 2016. But he never had any support in the polls, and it was a dead-end campaign that ended fairly quickly. Giving that much money to Walker was the same as flushing it down the toilet, unless it was for some other purpose. That leads us to the question of how the hell Donald Trump won Wisconsin in the general election.
There was a reason Hillary Clinton didn’t focus on Wisconsin and Michigan in the general election: the polls and demographics made clear that she was supposed to win the states fairly easily. Given that information, it would have been a waste of resources for her to spend time there. Yet Donald Trump seemed to know those states were winnable for him, even though not a single political pundit, analyst, journalist or pollster thought it was possible. He spent time there for no apparent reason. And then he somehow magically won them.
Trump’s Wisconsin win in particular send up red flags. During the course of the inevitable recount, Palmer Report documented instance after instance after instance of anomalies and coverups that suggested Trump didn’t legitimately win the state. The recount effort arguably only failed to deliver proof of a rigged election because a judge ruled that individual counties could decline to do a hand recount, and some of the most suspicious counties did precisely that.
In hindsight you have to ask yourself why the Kremlin felt it was important to steer a million dollars to a backbencher 2016 presidential candidate who had no chance of winning the nomination, and who just happened to be the governor of a state that the Kremlin’s real candidate Donald Trump ended up shockingly winning. Did Scott Walker use his position to alter the outcome of the general election in his state in Trump’s favor? If not, why did the Kremlin make a point of giving so much money to the hapless Governor of Wisconsin? And was it the same money that Russia and the Trump campaign were discussing during that fateful meeting?
