16 Things You Must Believe to Buy the ?????Witch Hunt????? Story

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_The CCC
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Re: 16 Things You Must Believe to Buy the ‘Witch Hunt’ Story

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Proof is a different standard than evidence. We are still at the gathering evidence stage. Some evidence, of course, will be irrelevant, or not applicable. However some maybe proved if it ever gets that far.
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Re: 16 Things You Must Believe to Buy the ‘Witch Hunt’ Story

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Jersey Girl wrote:
cinepro wrote:My overall point is that any time someone gives you an argument (or list of arguments) that you really want to believe, you shouldn't turn off your brain.


You're exactly right to defend truth and accuracy, cp.


That being said, I think this article lays out a convincing case (or basis for a case to be made). If campaigns aren't allowed to accept money or "things of value" from foreign governments, they probably aren't allowed to accept information that would be considered more valuable than money. But the article also discusses why such an interpretation could be problematic.

With the Donald Trump Jr. email news, it’s time to stop talking vaguely about collusion with the Russians. “Collusion,” as such, isn’t a crime. But conspiracy is, and Trump Jr.’s startling July 11 admissions raise the question of whether he and other senior members of his father’s camp engaged in a conspiracy to violate U.S. election law.

U.S. election law forbids a foreign national from “directly or indirectly mak[ing] a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value” to an American political candidate. It also prohibits an express or implied promise to make a ­contribution or ­donation. A U.S. citizen who conspires to assist with or solicit a contribution or donation also risks prosecution.

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The question then becomes whether political dirt meant to hurt a presidential candidate is a “thing of value.” In Trump Jr.’s case, “there’s certainly strong enough evidence to open up an investigation,” says Brendan Fischer, director of Federal Election Commission reform at the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington watchdog group. On July 10, Common Cause, another Washington nonprofit, filed a complaint with the Department of Justice and the FEC, urging the agencies to investigate Trump Jr. Common Cause alleged that the president’s son, “in his role with the Trump campaign, illegally solicited a political contribution from a foreign national—in the form of opposition research he believed would be damaging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.”


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... moking-gun
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