It would be most interesting to see the equivalent material for coffees attended by some of the unsavories. Finally, there's the question of whether people with business ties to China used cash, and perhaps laundered money, to influence U.S. politicians. We still don't know why a low-level FBI briefing of the NSC staff on such Chinese efforts didn't make it to the top levels of the White House. All this has the makings of a major scandal. But even if there were no China scandal, what went on in the White House, at the DNC, and in the selling of access by both political parties is serious enough.
Soft money is the monster devouring our political system.
The reforms enacted after Watergate were largely effective at the beginning, putting strict limits on contributions. Then, in the late 1970s, the soft money loophole appeared, and kept on growing. It was soft money that the president and the vice president and the DNC, as well as the Republicans, were after in the last election. But that can be fixed, too. It's as if no one here has ever seen public opinion move.