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[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 months ago

There are 11,195,792 reasons they won't admit Israel is committing war crimes

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Do you know where that graphic comes from? The data on opensecrets.org indicates that Biden has received $5,688,069 between 1990 and 2024.

I'm not disagreeing that this is a problem. This is undoubtedly a route through which foreign money is making it into US politics and Biden is one of the biggest recipients of Pro-Israel funds. It just isn't as much money as indicated by the graphic. It is $5,688,069 spread over 34 years but loaded heavily to more recent years.

Biden donations from Pro-Israel sources by election cycle:

  • 2023-2024: $1,459,405
  • 2021-2022: Unsure - Not in top 20 and can't find full dataset
  • 2019-2020: $3,753,304

All other election cycles, Biden doesn't appear in the top 20. Simple math indicates that, outside of 2019, 2020, 2023, and 2024, Biden received an additional $475,360 over the rest of his career.

I don't like to see that Biden received $3,753,304 in the 2019-2020 campaign cycle. That is way too much foreign influence in my opinion, even if it technically came from American organizations. That said, Biden spent $1,614,843,740 in 2019-2020 meaning that only 0.23% of that was from Pro-Israel groups.

this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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