Advocacy Groups Accuse Trump Camp Of Violating Law In Russian Meeting
Source: Talking Points Memo
Three advocacy groups on Thursday accused Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — in addition to everyone known to be in attendance at a meeting with a Russian lawyer who had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton in June 2016 — of violating election law.
Democracy 21, Common Cause and the Campaign Legal Center, and the vice president and policy director at the latter two groups, respectively, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission formally accusing Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner of soliciting a contribution from a foreign national by attending the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June 2016. PBS Newshour first reported the complaint.
“Under federal law, providing anything of value, including the fruits of paid research, hacking, or similar investigatory activity to a campaign is an in-kind ‘contribution,’” the complaint noted, “and expressing approval and requesting a meeting to receive that in-kind contribution is a ‘solicitation.’
Federal law prohibits such contributions, or solicitation thereof, from foreign nationals.
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And now we have a lying attorney general of the united states, a day late, mind you, hand over his form to the court, if I were to do that I would have contempt citation thrown at me so damn fast, going to do what with this above information, I know, I"ll use an emoji for reference
