You'll be surprised along with your crooked democrats. Why aren't you helping Nadler and Schiff find Olga Buzova to get that photo of naked Trump.
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52 U.S.C. Section 30121 (a)(2), reads: "It shall be unlawful for a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation... from a foreign national."
"Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election. This is not a novel concept. Electoral intervention from foreign governments has been considered unacceptable since the beginnings of our nation. Our Founding Fathers sounded the alarm about 'foreign Interference, Intrigue, and Influence.' They knew that when foreign governments seek to influence American politics, it is always to advance their own interests, not America's. Anyone who solicits or accepts foreign assistance risks being on the wrong end of a federal investigation. Any political campaign that receives an offer of a prohibited donation from a foreign source should report that offer to the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
Buying information from foreigners = bad form, ill-advised, impolitic
Accepting free information from foreigners = illegal
The issue comes down entirely to improper foreign influence on our elections. When a foreign government offers help to one candidate, that is the most extreme negative thing these laws were designed to prevent.
Hiring a foreign national to do some contract work does not raise the same specter of concern at all.
LOL. Doublespeak if I've ever heard it.
OK, give them a buck on the way out. All is well now!
And to think that when I heard Trump say this I was thinking "Hey, no way. Keep them out of our elections". Took a partisan tribal parrot like yourself to make me see the virtue in it. Just pay for it....got it.
Not even remotely the same thing. What Trump said he would do was blatantly illegal.
And don’t forget, the FBI was actually given the Steele Dossier.
“You can pay a foreign national to provide you with services, so a campaign, for instance, could have a campaign attorney who is a Canadian citizen,” Levinson said. “As long as you pay fair market rates for those services, that’s not what the federal campaign act says is prohibited. That’s just a fair exchange of money for services.”
If this kind of seems like a loophole, experts pointed out that it would be really hard to run a campaign otherwise. It would mean having to worry if the campaign signs you printed came from a foreign company, or if the catering firm you hired had foreign workers.
If a campaign is paying someone for work or services, they’re being compensated. But where that doesn’t happen, and a campaign is accepting a contribution — or “thing of value” — from a foreign government, the question then is what’s in it for them?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox...ec-illegal-fbi
You guys have really gotten your brains misshapen by the right wing spin-cycle.
No, you've gotten so brainwashed by the dem (not even left wing....it's actually much dumber than that) spin machine that you come here and quote a partisan member of the FEC (Weintraub) and act like this is the last and only word on the subject. Shows that you can be pulled in any direction they choose to pull you. You are the princess and Trump is your pea....because that is what they want.
I guess there's a great partisan reason why Hillary's tribe was able to sort through her e-mails that had been subpoenaed and just turn over the ones SHE deemed relevant (the rest were deleted, bleachbitted and offending hardware was hammered and destroyed. I am SURE you see no issue with that, either.