http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...4b005b0fdc88f88?nk4&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 Donald Trump Jr. Just Tweeted Out Pretty Clear Evidence That He Broke The Law, Experts Say It is illegal to solicit, accept or receive contributions and donations ― including things of value such as opposition research ― from foreign nationals. By Ryan J. Reilly WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump Jr. released emails on Tuesday that offer pretty direct evidence that he broke campaign finance law, according to campaign experts. It is illegal to solicit, accept or receive contributions and donations ― which includes things of value such as opposition research ― from foreign nationals. In an email chain titled “Russia - Clinton - private and confidential,” Trump Jr., who is President Donald Trump’s son, wrote that he’d “love” to have documents that an intermediary said “would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia.” The intermediary described the documents as “very high level and sensitive information” that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” Rick Hasen, an expert in campaign finance law, wrote that it was “hard to see how there is not a serious case here of solicitation.” “Trump Jr. appears to have knowledge of the foreign source and is asking to see it,” he added. Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump Jr. watches as his father, Donald Trump, is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Paul S. Ryan, the vice president of Common Cause, said the emails show Trump Jr. “illegally soliciting a contribution from foreign nationals.” Common Cause filed a complaint to the Federal Election Commission and the Justice Department on Monday, asking them to investigate Trump Jr. for soliciting a foreign contribution. Norm Eisen, the special counsel for ethics and government reform at the White House under former President Barack Obama, said the email from Trump Jr. “clearly violates campaign finance law and likely implicates Don Jr. and campaign under conspiracy statute.” A spokesman for Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, told HuffPost his team is declining to comment on the emails from Trump Jr. Trump Jr. released the emails on his Twitter account after being informed that The New York Times was about to publish a story describing them.
The HuffPost is really living in a fantasy world. Legal scholars and lawyers have already outlined that there is nothing illegal about receiving information. In fact it is part of your first amendment rights to do so.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...4b03f144e2da78f?y17&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 Don’t Forget Jared Kushner Was Also At The Meeting With The Russian Lawyer Donald Trump Jr. went to Jared. WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to meet with a Kremlin-connected lawyer after being promised damaging information about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is likely the biggest bombshell yet in the ongoing investigations into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during last year’s election. The meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya is the first confirmed sit-down between members of Trump’s inner circle and Russians during the campaign. And while the younger Trump’s participation in the meeting merits immense scrutiny, the encounter raises perhaps even graver questions about Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, who also attended ― particularly given his outsized role in the White House. On Monday night, The New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. knew the information he was being promised prior to the meeting was part of a Russian government effort to help his father win the 2016 election. The younger Trump says he asked Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort to join the meeting, yet claims he “told them nothing of the substance” about it beforehand. It was Kushner’s initial failure to disclose the meeting that led the Times to report on it in the first place. Kushner had filled out a form to receive the highest level government security clearance and had later revised it to include the previously undisclosed meeting. It’s not the first time Kushner has omitted meetings with Russian officials on government forms, which is illegal. The national security form requires that applicants list “any contact with a foreign government” over the last seven years. Knowingly concealing or failing to disclose that information is a federal felony. Kushner previously failed to disclose two meetings during Trump’s transition. One of them involved him, former national security adviser Mike Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak discussing the possibility of establishing a “backchannel” with Russia. The other meeting was with the head of a Russian state-owned bank, set up at Kislyak’s request. Kushner’s lawyer claimed at the time that the omissions were simply an error. Flynn resigned in February after misleading the Trump administration about his own interactions with Russian officials. Donald Trump Jr. can attempt to distance himself from the White House, given that he does not have a role in his father’s administration. In his initial statements addressing the June meeting with Veselnitskaya, the younger Trump insisted that his father had no knowledge of the meeting. The president’s legal team, hired to handle all matters relating to the multiple investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Russia, has similarly claimed that the president did not know about his son’s meeting. The White House did not reply to HuffPost’s request for comment. But Kushner is a senior White House adviser with a security clearance that grants him access to top-secret information, raising the stakes far higher. This article has been updated to clarify that knowingly concealing or failing to disclose foreign meetings constitutes a federal felony.
Instead of asking a real expert like Alan Dershowitz, who repeatedly smacks down all the phony legal analysis by the lying left, they go to some ambulance chasing lawyer in Shysterville, NY to get some dirt. And that's if they even really asked anyone. More likely, they just made the whole thing up! Like they did with the 17 agencies bs. The truth isn't necessary for the left because their followers are so gullible.
Total nonsense, foreigners are not even allowed to phone bank, let alone provide information to campaigns. You must have found some paid Republican stooges to make that claim, I am betting even Dershowitz won't defend this one.
It is illegal to solicit, accept or receive contributions and donations ― including things of value such as opposition research ― from foreign nationals.
Oh well, OJ Simpson's lawyer says no crimes were committed then it's all good. Everyone just move on.
Information and opposition research -- by law -- are not considered monetary donations or things of value.