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Judge Napolitano: Don Jr.'s Meeting With the Russians Warrants Criminal Investigation
PJ Media ^ | 07/17/2017 | Debra Heine

Posted on 07/19/2017 9:47:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Fox News' chief judicial analyst disagrees with President Donald Trump's contention that his son's June 2016 meeting with Russian operatives in expectation of getting dirt on Hillary Clinton is standard practice in American politics.

Judge Andrew Napolitano said on America's Newsroom Monday morning that Team Trump's actions were "suspicious" and actually warranted a criminal investigation.

It is a crime to receive "something of value" from a foreign person or government, Judge Nap declared. So if Don Jr. had accepted damaging material about Clinton from the Russians, "that would have been a felony," Napolitano explained. He added that "that would have been the completion of a crime."

"Often, these nonviolent criminal events don't happen all at once. They happen in stages," Napolitano continued. "So the question is, is this enough to commence a criminal investigation? Answer: Yes. Because it is suspicious that they met with these people, that they didn't consult a lawyer, that one of these people is a former KGB, GRU -- that's the Russian military intelligence arm."

The judge surmised that there could be only two reasons why Kushner did not inform the FBI about the meeting when he filled out his national security application.

Either this "was a bumbling, foolish thing to do, or this was the beginning of some steps in furtherance of acquiring this information," Judge Nap said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: collusion; donaldtrumpjr; fakenews; judgenap; napolitano; russia; trump; trumpfamily; trumpjrrussia; trumprussia
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1 posted on 07/19/2017 9:47:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Fox News is rolling Left. Roll left and die.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/accordingtohoyt.com/2016/11/19/rolling-in-the-deep/amp/


2 posted on 07/19/2017 9:51:00 AM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: SeekAndFind

SFW? Why don’t you actually call for the criminal investigation of something HARMFUL, Judge?

IRS?
Fast & Furious?
Benghazi?
Unsecures server?
Comey’s leaks?
Rice’s unmasking?
Slick & Fat Loretta?


3 posted on 07/19/2017 9:51:29 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe Kushner confessed this to Comey, then with the FBI, but Comey didn’t take any notes?

*SNORT*


4 posted on 07/19/2017 9:51:30 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry, Judge Napolitano, to hear you have gone over to the dark side once again.


5 posted on 07/19/2017 9:52:40 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: SeekAndFind

Andrew Napolitano has gotten to be as big an a**hole as Janet Napolitano.


6 posted on 07/19/2017 9:54:14 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: SeekAndFind

it’s a crime to receive something of value if you are a government employee, and he was not

Also, he did not receive anything of value.


7 posted on 07/19/2017 9:54:45 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps he has a McIdiot brain clot, too.

Just learned yesterday from FR the judge is gay. That explains a lot.


8 posted on 07/19/2017 9:57:34 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: SeekAndFind

More and more the judge seems to twist himself into a pretzel to find some legal culpability on the part of some member of the Trump campaign.


9 posted on 07/19/2017 9:57:44 AM PDT by Will88
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To: SeekAndFind

The “Judge” is full of s***.


10 posted on 07/19/2017 9:57:55 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: SeekAndFind

It is a crime to receive “something of value” from a foreign person or government

Huh? Say what, there, Judge?

Don Jr. is a private citizen. The person he met with is a private citizen. So, if she whips out a stick of gum and says: “Hey, Don, want a stick of gum?” the Judge wants to see a SWAT team come in to arrest him because that’s somehow “illegal”?

Sorry. Makes no sense to me at all.


11 posted on 07/19/2017 9:57:57 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: SeekAndFind

I think he was told by Fox if he wanted to keep his job he needed to hit trump HARD...that little hiatus they forced on hm did the trick!! Backstabber ass!


12 posted on 07/19/2017 9:58:15 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: SeekAndFind
The judge surmised that there could be only two reasons why Kushner did not inform the FBI about the meeting when he filled out his national security application. Either this "was a bumbling, foolish thing to do, or this was the beginning of some steps in furtherance of acquiring this information," Judge Nap said.

I'm no fan of Jared Kushner, but maybe there's a third reason here.

The rules governing these national security applications are very clear about reporting contacts with foreign governments, but foreign individuals with no known government contacts aren't treated the same way.

I'm speculating that the meetings were never reported on these disclosure forms because the foreigners involved in the meetings weren't working in any official government capacity.

13 posted on 07/19/2017 9:59:42 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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When the left is in control, the right rolls over and plays dead. This is how we ended up with obungholecare. Should have been lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit - investigations and special counsel assigned, especially after piglosi's "we gotta pass it to see what's in it" comment - instead, GOP governors across the Country stuck their hands out to receive their chains.

When the right is in control, the left fights tooth and nail, filing lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit, in many cases, outright IGNORING the Constitution and rule of law, and they get their way. The GOP is nothing more than a den of lying, cheating, backstabbing, conniving, meathead traitorous wretches. It's time they be dealt with accordingly. It's time they be sent packing for new jobs, at all costs.

I hope & pray, and will do EVERYTHING in my power, to see to it the GOP traitors lose the House and Senate over the coming years.

14 posted on 07/19/2017 9:59:48 AM PDT by dware (If you think voting still works, you're part of the problem. The ballot box is broken.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I don't know how anyone takes this clown seriously anymore. I could get better legal advice from Judge REINHOLD than this guy....



15 posted on 07/19/2017 10:00:42 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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He’s worried about his salary.


16 posted on 07/19/2017 10:00:54 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: conservative98

[ Sorry, Judge Napolitano, to hear you have gone over to the dark side once again. ]

Or the judge wants discovery which would expose the meeting as a setup operation by the Obama admin....


17 posted on 07/19/2017 10:00:59 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Judge (Miss) Andrew ceased to be a fount of useful information quite some time ago.


18 posted on 07/19/2017 10:02:23 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: SeekAndFind

There goes his shot at being a Supreme Court Justice.

Oh vell.


19 posted on 07/19/2017 10:04:48 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Mr. K

“it’s a crime to receive something of value if you are a government employee, and he was not
Also, he did not receive anything of value.”

Exactly. In the Judge’s world what did Donald Jr receive that was of value? Was it a request to look into the Magnitsky Act? If so bwahahahaha.


20 posted on 07/19/2017 10:05:32 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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