bripat9643
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Do you ever stop lying?Information is not considered to be a "thing of value" for the purposes of the campaign funding laws.FAIL.
Information is not considered to be a campaign contribution from the point of the campaign finance laws.
You are misinformed. 52 USC 30121, 36 USC 510
A foreign national shall not, directly or indirectly, make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value, or expressly or impliedly promise to make a contribution or a donation, in connection with any Federal, State, or local election.
Just once in your lazy, incompetent life, you should google before responding. Then you might not make a complete idiot of yourself all of the time.
Opinion | Can it be a crime to do opposition research by asking foreigners for information?
first of all your cite is an OPINION, not a law. As we all know, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. Secondly, when a foreigner volunteers information, you did not ask for it.
Now, in the case of the dossier and the Clinton campaign, it was asked for and paid for. So you must support prosecution of her and her cronies. right?
I realize that it’s your best interests for the purpose of this debate, to portray Dossier in the same light as Junior’s Trump Tower meeting but there are so many differences.
Junior was open to getting a donation of information directly from a representative of the Russian government. He was told before the meeting that the Russian government wanted to help his father’s campaign.
The Trump Campaign then invited the Russians to hack Hillary, and then obtained advance notice of the leaks of information received through Roger Stone, and optimized these leaks with promotion and publicity.
The Clinton campaign asked their lawyers to obtain opposition research. The lawyers hired GPS Fusion and they paid GPS Fusion for the research. It wasn’t a donation.
Last but certainly not least, the Clinton Campaign didn’t use a single thing from that Dossier in the campaign. They gave it to the Republican Party, and passed it on the the FBI.
So on one hand you have a candidate who conspired with a foreign government to slander and discredit the other candidate, and who coordinated a systematic attack on the candidate using stolen emails and data, with the Russians. And on the other, a candidate who received information that the Trump Campaign had strong ties to the Russian government and turned that information over to authorities to investigate, without making the information public.
How are these two things in an way the same?
Say, aren't you a Canadian? By posting on this forum, you are "meddling" in our elections, exactly the thing that Mueller indicted all those Russians for.
You're a criminal. Get out of here before I report you to Mueller.