>>>Ambigous language everywhere -
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>Yes. Especially the word "solicit" that means to ask for or try to obtain. Intent is enough to satisfy this definition. Did Trump JR try to obtain dirt on HRC? Difficult to claim otherwise in view of his reaction to the offer of dirt on HRC from a Russian lawyer: "I love it."
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>My preference is to look at the intent of the law. The intent of that law is to prevent foreign interests or cash corrupting the electoral process to obtain a result of benefit to the foreigner.

For that matter, the corporations who don't pay much in taxes in country, and/or have most of their production/assets abroad, should be treated as foreign in the definition of this law. The world of lobbying would concentrate on this law then and leave most of the rest for a while.