Spreading the Hype! Didn't "W" Cop To That?

[JackLuis]

This conservative megadonor paid an indicted congressman $450,000 to spread ‘fake news’ in Texas

A conservative donor personally wrote a check to mail out a fake conservative newspaper meant to take down the primary challenger of former Rep. Steve Stockman, the Huffington Post reports.

Federal prosecutors last month indicted Stockman and two of his aides for conspiring to launder money for a charity to fund his campaign. In the indictment, prosecutors note that conservative political donor Richard Uihlein wrote a check for over $450,000 to mail “The Conservative News” to Texas voters.

That paper was part of an operation headed by the former representative against his Republican primary opponent John Cornyn. It disseminated false information attacking Cornyn, insisting he gave “Social Security numbers to illegals” and voted “to advance Obama nomination of pro-abortion, ‘Jesus’ banning judge.”

Mega-donor or Mega Sucker? Sounds like Uihlen was sucked into dumping a lot of cash into a "True Believer Scam", run by political hacks since politics was invented!

But it was legal.

As the Huffington Post reports, Citizens United reaffirmed the legality of making and funding fake newspapers. Uihlein is listed in the indictment as a victim of Stockman’s fraud.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Limits on speech were incorporated in the criminal code in relation to treason, sedition, blasphemous and defamatory libel, disruption of religious worship, hate propaganda, spreading false news, public mischief, obscenity, indecency and other forms.

— Prof. Dominique Clément, University of Alberta

*spreading false news is illegal up here. giving social security numbers to illegals sounds like defamatory libel. is defamatory libel illegal in the US?*