Sam Clench,Emma Reynolds and Natalie Wolfe
news.com.au
A record-breaking amount of "dark money" donations helped secure Joe Biden's win, a new report has revealed.
Mr Biden’s campaign attracted about $188 million in dark money donations from anonymous sources, despite the Democrats previously being critical of the dark money practice.
It means the public will never know exactly who helped secure Mr Biden’s victory.
His dark money donations also broke a record, topping the previous record of $146 million that went to Republican senator Mitt Romney in 2012, and drawfing the $37 million brought in by Donald Trump.
It comes amid revelations a man charged over the Capitol riots allegedly threatened to “assassinate” a Democratic Congresswoman and warned it was “hunting season”.
Texas man Garret Miller, who was arrested on Wednesday and faces five criminal charges including trespassing and making death threats, posted on social media before and during the incident, saying a “civil war could start” and “next time we bring the guns”.
His lawyer Clint Broden told CNN his client “certainly regrets what he did” and that “a lot of the comments, as viewed in context, are really sort of misguided political hyperbole”
