Posted on 06/14/2019 1:10:03 PM PDT by Puppage
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) - U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal is taking action after President Donald Trump's recent comments about welcoming campaign dirt on opponents from a foreign government.
During an exclusive interview with ABC's George Stephanopolous, the president insisted that doing so was not an act of interference in our election but information.
"I think I'd take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI. When you go and talk, honestly, to congressman, they all do it, they always have, and that's the way it is. It's called oppo research," said Trump.
Members of both parties have criticized the president's response.
Senator Blumenthal called on Congress Friday to pass his "Duty To Report" act.
Under The measure, federal campaigns, candidates and pacs would have to report offers of help from foreign nationals to the federal election commission and the FBI.
I need to take a shower after looking at him.
The Senate needs to be renamed to “House of Wankers”.
This guy looks like a lliteral mother f*cker.
He looks like such a creep
Democrats would have no problem with such a law.
Up to now, the laws don’t apply to them, anyway.
Somebody should ask the Senator if Hillary should be charged for soliciting foreign help with the infamous dossier.
What is worse. Accepting unsolicited oppo research from a foreign power or seeking out a foreign national and paying him a lot of money to come up with dirt on your opponent?
Does he mean that somebody should have reported the British contribution to the Steele dossier.
I really don’t have any problem with such a law in theory, although I suspect that it would be ignored by some and those who obeyed it would overwhelm the System by the number of contacts.
Of course, were it in force in 2016, then the shameful conduct of the Clinton campaign would be widely known and acknowledged, assuming that she obeyed the law and reported the contacts with Ukraine, Steele, and the Russians. We know that the Clintons always obey the Law.
And, thinking about, yeah, the proposed law is idiocy. To get around it, all you have to do is to use cut-outs, just like the Clinton campaign did with Christopher Steele.
I guess Blumenthal takes us for idiots (had me pegged dead-on, given my opening paragraph of this response).
I assume the bill would not apply to Democrats. Maybe there’d be a ‘No Intention Clause’ for them.
Gee, Dick! Why didn’t Hillary ring the FBI when she came into the Steele Report? Oh, that’s right! Laws & Rules don’t apply to Democrats.
I suspect he’ll compose the law in such a way that if a Democrat candidate hires a law-firm, which contracts with an British ex-agent, who pays hostile foreign government
sources for dirt....it will all be OK........
The Dems were the ones who went to foreign government trying to get something on TGrump. How come that is not a problem?
Yeah, that’s precisely the problem. The law would be easily evaded.
Blumenthal is such a lowlife weasel that I immediately start looking for the partisan rear-guard, actual intentions of such a proposal, such as creating an ex-post facto issue to prevent any prosecution of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. I also note that it’s predicated upon an “offer,” not in seeking it out proactively.
Dumb idea from dumb Senator. Such a requirement would allow a moderately populated hostile nation to tie up any candidate as well as the FEC and FBI with useless paperwork any time they desired.
I attended an event where he was the main speaker, about 10 years ago, for a house being donated to a Marine, who was seriously wounded in Iraq. This was before it was known that Blumenthal had fabricated many details about his military service.
Being near him in person is worse than just seeing him on TV or in pictures.
But even worse, after knowing how dishonest he is, pretty much anything he spews must be some blatant hypocrisy.
If the dems would come up with a “duty to report” law, they surely would not present it without making sure there were plenty of loopholes and ambiguity, so they could duck its application to anything they might have done or might do in the future.
JMHO
Trump needs to remoind them that hillary paid for the phony dossier. What ever happened to Lock her up”? There needs to less talk and tweets and more action.
Congress would make themselves exempt, as they almost always do.
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