Day: April 5, 2016

Panama Papers are the World’s Largest Leak Ever

Buck Banks

2.6 terabytes

“The Panama Papers is the largest leak in history. At 2.6 terabytes, it’s on a scale never seen before — over 1,000-fold bigger than Wikileaks’ Cablegate scandal. The 11.5 million records from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca reveal an opaque system where billionaires, smugglers, and fraudsters hide their money for reasons both legitimate and criminal,” reports World Policy Journal.

Majority of Voters Say America has ‘Lost Its Identity’

Buck Banks

57%

Of all voters strongly agree or somewhat agree with the statement, “America has lost its identity,” according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Among all Republicans, 79% agree, while only 36% of Democrats agree. The highest level of agreement is expressed by GOP supporters of Donald Trump, as 85% agree. Also interesting: There is a wide partisan division among American voters on the statement, “The government has gone too far in assisting minority groups.” Agreement is 45% among all voters, 72% among all Republicans and 18% among Democrats. Agreement is highest among Trump backers — 80%.

Despite Primary Losses, Sanders Continues to Pull in Money

Buck Banks

$44 million

Bernie Sanders’s latest fundraising haul. “[It] was amassed as his path to the nomination narrowed substantially, leaving him with a daunting deficit in convention delegates. Such a feat amounts to defying political gravity, campaign-finance experts say: When candidates start losing primaries, as Mr. Sanders did during the first half of the month, the flow of donations typically slows significantly,” reports the Wall Street Journal. “But Mr. Sanders’s fundraising has continued apace, fueled largely by small-dollar online donors.”