>>>I wonder what US would do if Putin created a perfectly legal Delaware company with Russian funds and employees of that company meddled in an US election - would that be lobbyism or foreign influence ?
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>It would almost qualify for membership of the Washington swamp. I say "almost" because to fully quality they'd need to conceal their existence and launder funds via a "charity".

That is the MSM/PC angle tainting the puruit of $ - what if the company EARNS money lobbying and is paying the US-legal % of taxes?
In some circles that might be harder to attack ;-)