I bet he concedes nothing and continues to call everyone else liars! Any takers?
Waiting for next DSF post!
To quote the statute specifically:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/110.20
Considering campaigns spend thousands or millions of dollars on opposition research, dirt on your political opponents is absolutely something of value.
So to recap you didn't understand the law in question and then when corrected immediately flew into a rage and started insulting people. You should apologize.
(g)Solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of contributions and donations from foreign nationals. No person shall knowingly solicit, accept, or receive from a foreign national any contribution or donation prohibited by paragraphs (b) through (d) of this section.
(h)Providing substantial assistance.
(1) No person shall knowingly provide substantial assistance in the solicitation, making, acceptance, or receipt of a contribution or donation prohibited by paragraphs (b) through (d), and (g) of this section.
Thank you for that citation. I would also point out these two subsequent sections:
You're embarrassing yourself. Grow up.
I wish I could find the exact post, but someone on Twitter summarized the Trump family nicely: they're like a bunch of Sideshow Bobs endlessly stepping on golden rakes.
Never have we seen political corruption in the US that makes so many unforced errors -- it's as if the Trump family took a bet on whether or not Don Sr. would last a year in office, and Don Jr. clearly bet against him. "Oh, the Times is going to post a story proving I knew about the Russian government link, contradicting statements from the President and my past self? Here, I'll save them the trouble: I'll incriminate myself."
Can you imagine what'll happen in the Trump family if Don Jr.'s admission ultimately leads to the President's resignation? Talk about persona non grata. He's probably not getting an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner this year.
I wish I could find the exact post, but someone on Twitter summarized the Trump family nicely: they're like a bunch of Sideshow Bobs endlessly stepping on golden rakes.
Never have we seen political corruption in the US that makes so many unforced errors -- it's as if the Trump family took a bet on whether or not Don Sr. would last a year in office, and Don Jr. clearly bet against him. "Oh, the Times is going to post a story proving I knew about the Russian government link, contradicting statements from the President and my past self? Here, I'll save them the trouble: I'll incriminate myself."
Can you imagine what'll happen in the Trump family if Don Jr.'s admission ultimately leads to the President's resignation? Talk about persona non grata. He's probably not getting an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner this year.
Are you familiar with any reason that opposition research would not be considered something of value?
I wish I could find the exact post, but someone on Twitter summarized the Trump family nicely: they're like a bunch of Sideshow Bobs endlessly stepping on golden rakes.
The best case for Trump, his family, and their associates is that they are just too fuggin stupid to know any better, and that after watching movies and TV shows and reading Breitbart they thought "oh all politicians do this shit". Their best defense is that they didn't even try to hide it (oh except for those pesky disclosure forms.)
Big nothing burger? Perhaps--most of the country already knew that Donald and his merry band of goons were too stupid to effectively lead this country. The real tragedy is that 46.1% of the country doesn't care.
Saw Gorka on CNN this morning, deflector shields up at full strength: "BUT BUT BUT the DNC met with UKRAINE!!!" oh and "BUT HER EMAILS!!"
You underestimate. Clearly this is all part of a Democratic operation to entrap the Trumps and Podesta et al should be investigated immediately!I bet he concedes nothing and continues to call everyone else liars! Any takers?
C'mon now. We all know DSF is a troll without shame, and incapable of growth that doesn't involve his waist line. He's not going to stop. Defending feckless idiots by acting like a bigger feckless idiot is what he does.
If Maddow could spontaneously combust into a gleeful explosion of glitter and unicorn farts she is probably pretty close to it right now.
but...but...but...information has no value!Waiting for next DSF post!
Are you familiar with any reason that opposition research would not be considered something of value?
No, I was just citing the subsequent sections which would be more directly applicable to Trump Jr. here. I agree that "thing of value" is generally interpreted under the law to include valuable things which are not money and not tangible.
My only concern here is the point about tapping foreign sources for oppo information, which as DSF pointed out, was done by the Clinton campaign. It's probably been done in the past by others, as well. I'm not sure how the law will come out on this one.
In further followup, I found this:
https://twitter.com/derektmuller/status/884202298049560576
It's an FEC decision from 1990 holding that polling data constitutes a contribution to a campaign. It's interpreting a different FEC regulation, but the reasoning is probably applicable throughout election law. Still, I'm having trouble with the notion of foreign sourced sourced oppo research being illegal because it is probably done at least from time to time.
That's how I understand it from the stand point of "in-kind" contributions.If I'm not mistaken the prohibition is not on getting foreign sourced opposition research, it's about being donated it. If you wanted to pay the fair market value for that information it would be perfectly legal to do so, no?
NYT now apparently has the email in question which, if accurate shows Trump Jr. lied again about the meeting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/...=BreakingNews&contentID=65556520&pgtype=Blogs
Good thing he hired that criminal defense attorney the other day, haha.