{"id":531223,"date":"2021-05-20T21:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=531223"},"modified":"2021-05-20T21:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:20:48","slug":"lobbyist-for-foreign-partners-of-russias-nord-stream-2-donated-to-biden-campaign-pro-biden-super-pac-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lobbyist-for-foreign-partners-of-russias-nord-stream-2-donated-to-biden-campaign-pro-biden-super-pac-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbyist For \u2018Foreign Partners Of Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2\u2019 Donated To Biden Campaign, Pro-Biden Super PAC: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flobbyist-for-foreign-partners-of-russias-nord-stream-2-donated-to-biden-campaign-pro-biden-super-pac-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=531223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Biden-19-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1wr5klf\" readability=\"32.295767716535\">\n<p>A new report from the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan and independent firm that tracks money in U.S. politics, alleged that a lobbyist for the foreign partners of Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 pipeline gave thousands of dollars to President Joe Biden\u2019s campaign and a pro-Biden super PAC.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after Axios reported this week that the Biden administration was going to waive sanctions on a company and its CEO that is building Russia\u2019s pipeline to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Responsive Politics reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17.2\">\n<p><em>McLarty managing partner&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/revolving\/rev_summary.php?id=13420\">Richard Burt<\/a>, the former U.S. Ambassador to West Germany and a member of several influential Washington think-tanks, reported lobbying for a slate of foreign companies that have partnered on the project on \u201cRussian sanctions issues\u201d and \u201cnatural gas as an element of European energy security.\u201d Burt&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/federal-lobbying\/lobbyists\/contributions?cycle=2020&amp;id=Y0000013845L\">donated<\/a>&nbsp;$2,000 to Biden\u2019s 2020 campaign and $10,000 to pro-Biden super PAC&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/outsidespending\/detail.php?cmte=C00701888\">Unite the Country<\/a>&nbsp;while he was a registered lobbyist for foreign companies partnering with Nord Stream on the pipeline. Biden\u2019s campaign had not refunded Burt\u2019s money at the time of publication, more than 6 months after the donations were given, despite pledging to reject lobbyist donations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because firms working for proponents of the pipeline registered under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/fara\/background#not\">Lobbying Disclosure Act<\/a>&nbsp;instead of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/fara\/background\">Foreign Agents Registration Act<\/a>, details of which government officials the lobbyists met with remain hidden from the public.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.1098591549296\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scooplet: A lobbyist lobbying for foreign partners of Russia&#8217;s Nord Stream 2 gave $10k to pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country &amp; $2k to Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 campaign\u2014which hadn&#8217;t refunded his money 6+ months later despite pledging to reject lobbyist donations <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mZ7nfajc6Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/mZ7nfajc6Q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1SADitOLpZ\">pic.twitter.com\/1SADitOLpZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annalecta\/status\/1395448800660099074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan and independent firm that tracks money in U.S. politics, alleged that a lobbyist for the foreign partners of Russia\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312540,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Biden-19-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lobbyist For \u2018Foreign Partners Of Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2\u2019 Donated To Biden Campaign, Pro-Biden Super PAC: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Biden-19-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lobbyist For \u2018Foreign Partners Of Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2\u2019 Donated To Biden Campaign, Pro-Biden Super PAC: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}