{"id":235353,"date":"2016-04-01T13:53:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=235353"},"modified":"2016-04-01T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:53:51","slug":"bought-and-sold-john-mccains-foundation-took-1-million-from-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/bought-and-sold-john-mccains-foundation-took-1-million-from-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought and Sold? John McCain\u2019s Foundation Took $1 Million from Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"b-article__lead\">The contribution came as President Obama attempted to negotiate the nuclear agreement with Iran, Saudi\u2019s regional adversary, raising concerns that a foreign government influenced internal US policy.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"b-article__text\">\n<p>A new scandal has erupted involving US Senator John McCain of\u00a0Arizona\u00a0\u2014 his nonprofit organization, the McCain Institute for\u00a0International Leadership, received a $1 million donation from\u00a0the repressive government of\u00a0Saudi Arabia in\u00a02014. The news is likely to\u00a0impact his closely contested US Senate race against\u00a0Arizona Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, a race that pollsters say is within\u00a0the margin of\u00a0error.<\/p>\n<p>US federal law strictly bans foreign contributions to\u00a0electoral campaigns, but\u00a0the restriction does not apply to\u00a0nonprofits engaged in\u00a0policy even those organizations bearing the name of\u00a0a sitting lawmaker. Although likely not a technical violation of\u00a0the law, McCain\u2019s foundation is interconnected with\u00a0his reelection campaign, the candidate\u2019s fundraiser is listed as\u00a0the contact person for\u00a0the foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/politics\/20160331\/1037294645\/mccain-saudis-iran-donation-campaign.html\">Bought and Sold? John McCain\u2019s Foundation Took $1 Million from Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contribution came as President Obama attempted to negotiate the nuclear agreement with Iran, Saudi\u2019s regional adversary, raising concerns that a foreign government influenced internal US policy. A new scandal has erupted involving US Senator John McCain of\u00a0Arizona\u00a0\u2014 his nonprofit organization, the McCain Institute for\u00a0International Leadership, received a $1 million donation from\u00a0the repressive government of\u00a0Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}