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trump stated a day or so ago in an interview he would take the help of a foreign government if they approached him ,,, in essence again...
so his anointed FEC chair had to chime in...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/13/1864665/-Federal-Election-Commission-chair-issues-statement-It-is-illegal-to-accept-foreign-election-aid
Federal Election Commission chair issues statement: 'It is illegal' to accept foreign election aid
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Thursday June 13, 2019 · 5:55 PM MPDT
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| Quote: | US President Donald Trump is shown a copy of the American Declaration of Independence in 10 Downing Street in London on June 4, 2019, on the second day of their three-day State Visit to the UK. - US President Donald Trump turns from pomp and ceremony to politics and business on Tuesday as he meets Prime Minister Theresa May on the second day of a state visit expected to be accompanied by mass protests. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP/Getty Images)
Yes, what Trump described would be a crime. And was a crime.
Federal Election Commission chair Ellen Weintraub issued a statement today clarifying that soliciting or accepting information from a foreign national, as Trump professed to being willing to do in an interview released Wednesday evening, is a criminal act. Weintraub published the statement to Twitter with the preface: “I would not have thought that I needed to say this.”
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 US election. (1) 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.
(1) 52 USC S 30121(a)(2)
Weintraub’s statement comes after a day of Republican defenses of Trump’s statement that “I think I’d take” such offered information, claiming that “the FBI Director is wrong” in saying that informing the FBI would be required. |
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| Quote: | “Former president Jimmy Carter said Friday that he believes a full investigation of the 2016 election would show that President Trump prevailed because of Russian interference on his behalf and otherwise would not be in office.
“There’s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election, and I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016,” Carter said. “He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”
His made his comments during a panel discussion at a conference in Leesburg, Va., sponsored by the Carter Center, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1982 that focuses on human rights.
Pressed by historian Jon Meacham, who moderated the discussion, on whether he considers Trump to be “an illegitimate president,” Carter replied: “Based on what I just said, which I can’t retract.” |
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