agip wrote:
Fact Checking 101 wrote:
Sorry, but the same statute that you claim Trump violated would prohibit this transaction as well, something about federal law prohibiting a person from soliciting a thing of value from a foreign national. That's exactly what Clinton did.
I think I'm right, but I'm no expert here.
By your standard though...if the Warren campaign went to a supermarket and asked a Mexican national for a roll of paper towels and the sale was complete...then the Warren campaign would be guilty of campaign finance violations.
That can't be the way it works.
You can buy stuff from foreign nationals.
You can't receive it as gifts. You can't get stolen stuff either.
Rs did both those things.
So, in your opinion then, Trump could absolve himself by paying for the information he requested on Biden?