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Re:Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company du... by AaronFriel on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:42PM (#15187350)
That's probably true, but there's very little evidence of donations to the foundation being used to elicit favors, and there's a smidge of evidence that such attempts failed. Example:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-clinton-donor-chag...

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Re:Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company du... by pamqzl on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @10:01PM (#15188625)
If you give money to a government official in return for a specific favour then you'll both wind up in prison.

But there are certainly a helluva lot of ways of for this transaction to occur without anyone ever directly saying "here is your bribe".

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