Why did Mueller's indictments skip over the most obvious and pertinent statute

American Thinker ^ | February 18,2018 | By Thomas Lifson

[Hojczyk]

This is the relevant language of 52 U.S.C. §30121, which covers “meddling” in U.S. elections by foreign nationals:

(a) Prohibition: It shall be unlawful for—

(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make—

(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;

(B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or

(C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or

(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national.

The Russians obviously violated this statute; they spent millions of dollars to promote the candidacies of Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and Jill Stein, and to oppose the candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. So why weren’t they charged with the most pertinent crime they committed? Because Christopher Steele arguably violated the same law. He is a foreign national, and he contributed a “thing of value” to the Hillary Clinton campaign, namely the fake dossier.

Note, too, Section (2): it is a crime to “solicit, accept, or receive” such a contribution from a foreign national. Isn’t that what the Perkins, Coie law firm, the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and probably Hillary herself, did?

But John Hinderaker’s shrewd observation takes the disgrace to an entirely different level. It suggests (but does not prove) that the Mueller team is going out of its way to shield Hillary Clinton and her campaign and their henchmen at Perkins Coie, the DNC, Fusion GPS, and Christopher Steele from their own potential crimes.

[virgil]

I wasn’t aware that the Russians donated money.

[Professional]

I’d be very concerned if we aren’t seeing criminal indictments by late spring, early summer.

Seems laughable that page and strzok have jobs still. I suspect it’s because they are being heavily monitored and cooking in their own juices.
Anyone who claims to know what is going on, is fooling themselves.

It is extremely good theater. Everything I see and hear from Trump makes me hopeful. Sessions recent comments from the breitbart article indicate to me that he may be a particularly good actor....

[gibsonguy]

“Sessions recent comments from the breitbart article“

That’s intriguing, l hadn’t seen those. What was the jest of it? I would like nothing better than to be wrong about Jeff because so far he’s the best friend the Rats ever had.

[9422WMR]

“Could it be because Muellers team is packed with Clinton operatives? Muellers is nothing but a Rat and a Traitor.”
Remember when they did the dog and pony show and introduced Mueller before he told us Hillary did nothing wrong? They heaped praise upon the man like he was Jesus himself. It was like going to a university graduation where they spent WAY too much time praising the professors and the teachers.
They tried to make Mueller the man above reproach, but really just revealed what a treasonous bastard he really is.

[Professional]

I encourage you to pull up the Breitbart article on sessions. Everything he said was spot on, what you’d hope he would say. If this really is swamp draining, then the legal side of what is coming is 10x Nuremberg

[Buffalo Head]

"Didn’t Steele get paid for the dossier? He didn’t donate anything."

Steel donated, provided or otherwise transferred a thing of value to the DNC and Hillary. Case closed.

[Steven Tyler]

Because the counts centred on stolen identifications, using stolen ID’s to fraudulently open bank accounts, and deleting emails and related acts to obstruct justice.

These counts can be flexed and applied to Hillary and 0bama

[LS]

One reasonable answer would be that Sessions/Horowitz are coordinating with all THOSE charges along with all the other charges they plan on bringing.

I’m pretty convinced that Mulehead is a giant smokescreen, and that all these indictments are time-killers designed to take up fake news attention while the real indictments are going on elsewhere.

This would then tie perfectly into the charges that there was obstruction by Deep Stroke and Pageboy by working for DNC/oppo research while supposedly on the job.

That’s all a hypothesis. All I know for sure now is that NONE of this is aimed at Trump. If, as you say, Mulehead wanted to wrap this up quickly on the other side, he could do that. So, since a) it’s NOT aimed at Trump, and b) he’s taking his time, that tells me it’s a smokescreen, a cover for other prosecutions.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“The dossier and the separate investigation preceding its creation were both part of opposition research on Trump during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign. The American research firm Fusion GPS was hired for both investigations.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump–Russia_dossier

If they paid for it, it wasn’t donated.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It is time for Trump to figure out a way to put an end date to the Meuller circus. Rosenweasel made it almost impossible but there must be way.

The presiding judge in the case which originally convicted Sen. Ted Stevens (R, AK) (in time for Stevens to narrowly lose reelection) was Emmet G. Sullivan. Too late for Stevens’ reelection, Judge Sullivan overturned said conviction after learning that the prosecutors had failed in their duty to reveal all known exculpatory information to the defense. Subsequently Judge Sullivan was aggrieved to find that his authority to sanction the offending prosecutor was entirely unsatisfactory to him. Accordingly, he has been on a mission to get judges nationwide to issue a warning from the bench at the start of each criminal trial (it has a specific name, which I read some months ago in a piece by Judge Sullivan but which I can’t recall) which gives the judge more authority to penalize a prosecutor who fails to do his duty in that regard.

Knowing that, I was interested indeed to learn the identity of the judge who took over the Michael Flynn case after the first judge, having accepted Flynn’s guilty plea, was recused (AFAIK it was never determined that said judge recused himself). None other than Judge Emmet G. Sullivan! Mueller has a problem WRT the charge that Flynn had lied to the FBI. The recent revelation that the agent who interviewed Flynn did not think Flynn had lied has Judge Sullivan taking a jaundiced view of the case, and has him asking, “What did Mueller know, and when did he know it." If the prosecution improperly withheld information from the defense, Flynn will walk - and Judge Sullivan will do all he can to rip Mueller a new one. Possibly even naming a special prosecutor on Mueller!

[a little elbow grease]

I’m pretty convinced that Mulehead is a giant smokescreen, and that all these indictments are time-killers designed to take up fake news attention while the real indictments are going on elsewhere.

This would then tie perfectly into the charges that there was obstruction by Deep Stroke and Pageboy by working for DNC/oppo research while supposedly on the job.

That’s all a hypothesis. All I know for sure now is that NONE of this is aimed at Trump. If, as you say, Mulehead wanted to wrap this up quickly on the other side, he could do that. So, since a) it’s NOT aimed at Trump, and b) he’s taking his time, that tells me it’s a smokescreen, a cover for other prosecutions.

__________

......... sounds reasonable to me.

[Buffalo Head]

“provided or otherwise transferred”

[SoCal Pubbie]

I don’t see that in the statute.