Electoral  battles

From Hillary Clinton Donor To Kremlin Bank Flack

One of Hillary Clinton’s favorite attack lines against Donald Trump is that his relationship with the Kremlin is much too cozy for comfort.

At least one of her campaign bundlers seems to have missed that line of criticism.

Emanuel “Mike” Manatos, a lobbyist who helped raise upwards of $40,000 for her presidential campaign, recently started lobbying for a state-controlled Russian bank. And not just any bank. This one is run by associates of Vladimir Putin—including a former Stasi agent—and has been sanctioned by the U.S. government since the 2014 annexation of Crimea. It’s just another example of the pot/kettle nature of the 2016 presidential race.