WFB: In the last three years, political operative Jason Belton joined a billionaire Democrat’s presidential campaign, became a campaign manager for a U.S. Senate race, and won election to a South Carolina Democratic Party leadership position—all while under federal indictment for trafficking nearly nine pounds of cocaine.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Belton and a co-conspirator in February 2017 contacted a drug source in California to request large quantities of cocaine, which they planned to distribute out of Columbia, S.C. Days later, the indictment states, Belton accepted a package containing four kilograms of coke from San Bernardino drug dealer Estevan Ortiz, who is also known as “Stevie,” “Wonder,” and “Little Man.”
Federal agents went on to arrest Belton in South Carolina in January 2018. As the case progressed, however, Belton became implicated in a nationwide drug trafficking ring that federal authorities busted in 2020 following a three-year investigation. Belton’s California connects were caught with 77 kilograms of cocaine, 9 kilograms of heroin, 150 pounds of methamphetamine, 989 fentanyl pills, 19 guns, and nearly $2 million in cash, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a January 2020 press release. Following the bust, federal prosecutors moved Belton’s case to the Golden State, where it remains active.
But Belton’s apparent criminality has done little to deter his career—in fact, the operative’s political sphere expanded significantly after his arrest. In August 2019, Belton joined liberal billionaire Tom Steyer’s presidential campaign as its deputy political director, a gig that earned him more than $40,000 over a six-months period. After Steyer left the race in February 2020, Belton cofounded a political consulting firm, C&J Consulting, which boasts at least one client: Democratic South Carolina state legislator Krystle Matthews, who is challenging Republican senator Tim Scott. Belton, who in January was elected the third chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party Black Caucus, has described himself as Matthews’s campaign manager. MORE HERE
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that’s quite a pedigree
it should earn him a room in the big house
is the problem that people don’t know, or they don’t care?
if they make a special seal for the new thought police, I suggest they put two crossed shovels on it. One would be a spade for digging holes, and the other would be a scoop, as used when cleaning out stalls.
as they do for this story- they dig a hole and bury it, then spread BS everywhere. An almost absolute everywhere, too.
hunter’s laptop is in one of those holes
It’s not just South Carolina Democratic Party that has a Cocaine problem. It’s all of the Democratic Party Has a Cocaine (Trafficking) Problem.
If they aren’t users, they are supporters.
That why we have an open border, to get the cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, & fentanyl into the county. Who is Lori Lightfoot’s supplier? She looks blitzed all the time.
Obama gave them guns to defend the supply chain.
The new big money is in human trafficking, also much easier with an open border. The USA is the largest importer for human trafficking.
Human trafficking makes more money than Google, Starbucks, Nike and the NFL combined. $150 billion is a staggeringly huge number.
Nothing unusual. Politicians and City Council members in NYC do the same such as Charles Schummer, AOC, (former gov) Cuomo, accidental gov Hochul, de blasio, Meeks (medicaid fraud), Gillibrand, and numerous others. Drug cartel-sellers-importers need the approval of politicians to operate in a city/state and get a cut of the sellers’ profits.