These emails show that Donald Trump Jnr thought this lawyer was a foreign national with valuable material about the Clinton campaign.
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Clearly the law is referring to money or something similar to money, not information about Hillary doing dirty deals with the Russians.
No, the part of the code that says “or other thing of value” extends the definition well beyond money - goods, services, intel. The information he thought he could get was clearly of value, or else why try and meet the person?
What he said in the emails: ‘if it’s what you say I love it’ is clearly indicative of value.