[Avshalom]

>>So again, you're telling me that this guy stole money from regular people and then used it to support a candidate that ultimately won the election? How is that not the single biggest aspect of this story and a daily headline for the last two years?

Because there's no reason to believe that money particularly did anything to sway the election or to buy him influence afterwards.

The only reason anyone cares is because a bunch of jackasses were like "he donated to the DEMS! he'll NEVER see the INSIDE OF A COURT ROOM!" and then when he absolutely did in fact get charged those same jackasses started trying to save face by just repeating the first sentence even louder.

[keiferski]

> Because there's no reason to believe that money did anything to sway the election or to buy him influence afterwards.

What proof do you have of this statement? If donating so much money that it places you "among the nation’s top political donors," yet it has no effect on the election, why does anyone donate money at all?

[kemotep]

Money isn’t just more dollars equals more votes or more dollars equals this person does what I say. If that was true, Hillary would have won in 2016 and SBF wouldn’t be getting ready for a long time in Federal prison.

Presumably he donated to democrats because he prefers the political platform of that party and wished to signal that support to others (including non-politicians). That he’s one of the good billionaire. Obviously that isn’t the case.