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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Show me where collusion in a campaign is against the law.”

52 U.S. Code § 30121 - Contributions and donations by foreign nationals

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30121

It’s prohibited for a person to solicit a thing of value to a campaign from a foreign national.

These emails show that Donald Trump Jnr thought this lawyer was a foreign national with valuable material about the Clinton campaign. His attempting to arrange a meeting with her to obtain this material, that’s solicitation.

It might not have led anywhere, but it doesn’t have to. Just trying to get materials of value from a foreign national still breaks the law.

Junior may actually have got himself in a spot of bother here. Certainly I wouldn’t expect this story to go anywhere soon.


86 posted on 07/11/2017 3:58:40 PM PDT by The Numbers (God, Family and Country is Right.)
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To: The Numbers

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.


103 posted on 07/11/2017 4:09:26 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: The Numbers
-- ... thought this lawyer was a foreign national with valuable material about the Clinton campaign. --

All information has value. Using that defintion of "valuable," any receipt of information, by a campaign, from a foreign entity, is illegal.

-- His attempting to arrange a meeting with her to obtain this material, that's solicitation. --

You have inverted the legal meaning of solicitation, and applied it to the wrong party. It was the other side that solicited the meeting, and offered that it had dirt on Hillary to obtain the meeting.

Based on your post, I assume you are a troll, and not worthy of engaging serious discussion, so I lay this out for others.

105 posted on 07/11/2017 4:10:56 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: The Numbers

Too bad he doesn’t know anyone who could pardon him.


109 posted on 07/11/2017 4:13:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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