>>>>>>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>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?
>>>
>>>..sure - note the "or other thing of value" part here:
>>>
>>>(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?
>
>It says anything of value. The rest is a hypothetical that's irrelevant.

OK. Please tell me what the thing of value - that Jr agreed to meet about- was that meets the description you cited.