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The Deadpool posted...

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.

False.

1. There's no case law that says incriminating information is of "value". The law in question has been interpreted as only money or something equivalent, like gold. Not evidence of a crime which is what Trump Jr was offered when he agreed to the meeting. Nor is there any evidence that something of value like money was offered in exchange for this incriminating information on Hillary's dealings with the Russians, or that the Trump campaign funded any kind of opposition research with a foreign power.

2. Trump Jr did not lie even once. Nor did he ever change his story. He just omitted certain details, and I can't blame him considering how hysterical the left is. As soon as the details became known, crazy leftists in the media were accusing him of "treason" and other such nonsense. Further, there was little reason to believe that these official Government documents relating to illegal Russian activities by Hillary Clinton contained information illegally acquired by the Russian Government -- so there is no equivalent here to accepting stolen property or "reasonably believing" that you might be accepting stolen property.
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