McConnell’s Biggest Donor Isn’t Russian
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A meme on Facebook falsely claims that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s biggest campaign donor is a Russian oligarch.
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A meme is circulating online with this incorrect claim: “It turns out that the biggest donor for Mitch McConnell (R: Moscow) is none other than the Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on.”
Some of the meme are marked with a Twitter handle that the same message on Jan. 28 with a link to a from an anti-Trump super PAC called . That story connected — the Republican senator from Kentucky who has been the majority leader since 2015 — to billionaire , a dual citizen of the U.S. and U.K., who has hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican and Democratic candidates and super PACs.
