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Federal law prohibits U.S. election campaigns from accepting money or "anything of value" from foreign sources. The U.S. Supreme Court has held -- on First Amendment grounds -- that this prohibition cannot be used to prohibit foreigners from working for U.S. election campaigns. The only constraint is that they cannot be paid for their work, and must be volunteers by any objective measure.

Perhaps the easiest way for Donald Trump Jr. to steer clear of any legal trouble is if he simply says that he met with this Russian lawyer because he thought she was volunteering to work for the Trump campaign!

4 posted on 07/17/2017 10:04:21 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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Federal law prohibits U.S. election campaigns from accepting money or “anything of value” from foreign sources.”””

Funny how that NEVER applied to Obama-—

He was getting money from GAZA for his campaigns-—and other Middle Eastern sources.

NO ONE ever prosecuted Obama for such activity.

Another double standard from the Democrats & the media.

IF they didn’t have their DOUBLE standards, they wouldn’t have ANY standards at all.


10 posted on 07/17/2017 1:09:55 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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