[thinden]

Excerpt from the piece

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.”

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If judge nap is correct on this it should be applied to sen mccain for getting the trump dossier from steele in britonnto comey in dc

[Alberta's Child]

Judge Napolitano is not correct on this.

If the definition of "something of value" is so broad under the law that it includes something as simple as information that isn't protected in any way and has no monetary value, then it would be a crime to have a foreigner wish a campaign representative a "Happy Birthday!" ... but only if it brings a smile to that person's face (obviously it has value in THAT case).

All the phony outrage over this is ludicrous.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

One of the problems with saying that information is something of value is that it's not clear what the value is; nor is it clear by what basis that value is determined.

The law is obviously meant to refer to money or gifts with an objective value that can be measured in currency.

But what are words worth?

Would an article from a foreign journalist, or a speech from a foreign leader have value? Of course it does, that's why they say the things they do. They want their opinions to influence others.

So, if DJT, Jr. were approached and told that a Russian wanted to give him a million dollars for his father's campaign, then I would think there might be a problem. But, when the something of "value" cannot be measured, or spent on campaign activities, I think some people are grasping at straws that they only hope can be misinterpreted for their own, hidden agenda.