Washington • There’s understandable delight over the name of a company run by one of Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine-connected buddies arrested last week for allegedly laundering money into Donald Trump’s political efforts. It’s called “Fraud Guarantee.” This will provide an excellent title for a book on the Trump era, deceitfulness being the one Trump trait we can rely on.
And if there's one thing guaranteed in our election campaigns now, it's the danger that they'll be influenced by foreign donors.
In the 2010 Citizens United decision and other rulings, Supreme Court conservatives pooh-poohed the dangers of corruption and created many new openings through which dark money — including cash from Ukraine, Russia and anywhere else in the world — can infect our politics.