Friday 2 February 2018

How Did Trump Win? Follow the Dark Money

How Did Trump Win? Follow the Dark Money


AARON MATÉ: It's The Real News, I'm Aaron Maté. It's been over a year since Donald Trump pulled off what is likely the biggest upset in U.S. political history, but we have yet to fully understand how it is that a reality television host with no political experience managed to do it. The widespread perception is that it was a combination of Russian meddling and a last minute October surprise from then FBI director James Comey. Well, a new study takes a much deeper look than has been done to date and a very different picture emerges. It points to, among other things, a major last minute infusion of secretive dark money on Trump's behalf. The study is put out by the Institute for New Economic Thinking and it's called, "Industrial Structure and Party Competition in an Age of Hunger Games: Donald Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election."

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