Let's not forget how the trump campaign started (post golden escalator)

[ashling]

Donnie, Jr.'s illegal emails soliciting .... no, not the emails with Rob Goldstone

Link to tweet

about the famous trump tower meeting .....

but the ones that he sent to every British government official (check your spam folder) soliciting campaign contributions.

Oh, he pleaded stupidity saying they had never conducted a campaign before and they just didn't know it was a problem .... and then he kept on doing it.

https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-spams-foreign-politicians-with-fundraising-emails/
http://fortune.com/2016/06/29/donald-trump-spam/
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-fundraising-british-members-parliament

Federal law on foreign money in campaigns is black and white, campaign finance lawyers on both sides of the political divide say.

It's illegal for foreign individuals, corporations and governments to either give money directly to U.S. candidates or spend on advertising to influence U.S. elections.

And it's also illegal for candidates to solicit foreign money, regardless of whether the donations ever materialize.

There is now vast documentary evidence that the Trump campaign is continuing to do just that.

BTW, was there ever any prosecution for that?





Is it not disingenuous for trump to claim that it is unfair to be investigating
collusion with other countries besides Russia?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/20/17373682/donald-trump-russia-investigation-mueller-fbi-twitter
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-tweets-special-counsel-investigation-getting-ridiculous-1526827789

The president complained that the Mueller investigation has found “nothing” on Russia or him so “they are now looking at the rest of the World!”

[tanyev]

1. Also Australia, Iceland, Denmark and Finland.

Bet there were lots more that never made the news and it wasn’t just incompetence.