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If ProPublica’s two key subjects including a criminal and a man with repeated history of targeting Republicans was not enough to cast a shadow of doubt on the credibility and bias of this story and outlet, let’s not forget the outlet has spent years running anti-Republican propaganda.

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The left-wing propaganda operation better known as ProPublica released a hit piece targeting Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Tuesday, alleging she was involved in a pay-to-play scheme and that the Trump administration helped shut down the investigation.

To make the claim that has been denied by both Collins’ team and the FBI, ProPublica enlists discredited former FBI agent Kevin Gounaud, who sought to use lawfare to take down Elon Musk, and the testimony of Martin Kao, the man in jail for making illegal campaign contributions.

ProPublica suggested in its latest anti-Republican hit piece that Collins and her 2020 Senate campaign were involved in a pay-to-play bribery scheme. According to ProPublica, a staffer for Collins’ campaign met with Navatek CEO Martin Kao, because the company wanted government contracts in Maine. Navatek is a Hawaiian defense contractor. In exchange for government contract, so goes the ProPublica story, Kao would make donations to Collins’ campaign through a shell company. But Kao allegedly “wanted assurance that Collins would know where the money came from.”

Notably, the allegations were investigated by the Biden FBI and nobody from Collins’ team was charged. Collins’ team also denied claims that Collins’ campaign was ever a subject of the inquiry. Annie Clark, Deputy Chief of Staff for Collins, saying Collins’ campaign “was never the target of the FBI investigation.”

Clark also pointed out that rather than take the word of the FBI, the story’s central framing relies on a man who “pled guilty to five counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud, one count of bank fraud, and making false submissions to the FEC. As Martin Kao was awaiting sentencing, he began making........

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