>>>>>>>>>>>The emails were clear on this though -- offering dirt on HRC from the Russian government, and Trump saying "I love it", then setting up the meeting...- I don't see how any juror would be able to successfully argue otherwise.
>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>Is love a crime now, too?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>No - but taking the meeting was without a doubt a crime.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>What crime did he commit?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I already stated which law he broke (which is 52 USC 30121, 36 USC 510) , quoted the law, and went in depth about it in this thread....so rather than repeating myself, please refer to that.
>>>>>>>You can read the statute in question here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/110.20
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>>>>>>This says that I can't couldn't take money from foreigners.
>>>>>>Do you think that foreigners gave him money?
>>>>>
>>>>>Read my other post where I explain all this -- it DOES NOT MATTER if he actually got anything of value - he broke the law by taking the meeting to solicit the information of value.
>>>>>
>>>>>(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.
>>>>>
>>>>>...that section along with a dozen others that mention all this.
>>>>
>>>>It sounds to me that he had to have solicited something of monetary value.
>>>
>>>...nope - read it all again. It can be anything of value -- and obviously information is of high value.
>>
>>I'm unusually dense today.
>>I don't see what you mean, could you point it out?
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>..sure - note the "or other thing of value" part here:
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>(b)Contributions and donations by foreign nationals in connection with elections. A foreign national shall not, directly or indirectly, make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value, or expressly or impliedly promise to make a contribution or a donation, in connection with any Federal, State, or local election.

OK.
I read that.
Further down, they go into quite a bit of detail about what a thing of value might be...
such as an office building (as if Trump needed one of them)
Nowhere does it mention gossip or scandalous emails.
So, let's say that John Ryan told Jr that Hillary was having an affair with Bernie Sanders - would that have been enough to get Jr locked up?