As I have repeatedly pointed out, FTX was an equal opportunity donor. Donations = Access. While SBF focused on Dems, he also donated to Repubs - including:
$105,000 to Alabama Conservative Fund
$45,000 to the NRCC
max donations to Repubs Boozman, Collins, Burr, Cassidy, Hoevan, and Murkowski.
Source: Fox Business News, 11/18/2022, FTC founder Sam Bankman-Fried was also prolific donor to Republicans: ‘I have a duty’
FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame was the FTX Repub donations bag man. He gave $23.6 million to Repubs at the same pace as the Repubs two biggest donors - Peter Thiel and Steve Schwarzman (Blackstone). He gave $2 million to the Republican Congressional Leadership Fund, and $114,000 to the NRCC.
Source: The Coin Republic, 11/14/2022, FTX Co-CEO Ryan Salame is Continuing and Lawyering-up
This is how politics works in this country. Payoffs for access. Our national malady is greed. It’s a scam that will not change unless laws (and the Constitution) are amended to prohibit donations for access to politicians.
It is legalized bribery sanctioned by the Supreme Court under the guise that “fictional legal entities, such as corporations, are persons with the right to free speech in the form of donations.” The chances of that happening are zero.