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SK8T3R215 posted...

But what is illegal about getting dirt on your opposing candidate in an election?

From a foreign government?

There are two laws here:

First, of the information was acquired illegal. Now working under the assumption (and that's a big one) that after changing his story five times that Trump Jr has settled on the truth (finally) and there was no information, the law still applies if there was reasonable reason to believe the information was illegally acquired.

It's like if you're caught buying a Ferrari by 200 dollars cash. You don't get to claim "I didn't know it was stolen."

Second, it's camapaign financing. Information is legally considered to have value (the value it would take to acquire said information). Opposition research ain't free.

Even without legal action, it's still two important steps:

1) Donald Trump Jr clearly lied multiple times to hide this meeting from the public.

2) The Russian government made a continued effort to help Trump. And the campaign knew that.
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