doug wead and jesse benton were just indicted in federal court today for allegedly funneling illegal foreign donations from a russian national to a republican party pac and to the trump campaign in 2016. now, there's no indication the trump campaign knew it was receiving these allegedly illegal russian funds during the 2016 campaign through this scheme allegedly carried out by doug wead and jesse benton. we also don't know who the russian national in question may have been. but jesse benton was only just pardoned by trump in december of 2020. benton had been convicted in conjunction with what effectively was a bribery scheme in the 2012 iowa caucuses in the republican presidential primary. trump pardoned him in december. as politico.com pointed out tonight this new invitement today charges that jesse benton was ginning up this alleged illegal foreign donation scheme to funnel illegal russian funds to the trump campaign, allegedly doing that working on that scheme at the same time he was being sentenced for his earlier conviction. this indictment tonight was filed just before the stat