separate issue, though
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Visa fraud v. accepting things of value are different statutes, yes. But it is illegal for a campaign to hire foreign workers to work in the US w/o proper visa, as appears to have happened.
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Good thread. Whatsboutism equating Steele memos and Trump Tower confab is rampant. I believe that Trump & Co. traded Russian—friendly foreign policy (sanctions relief, laissez faire toward Russian Crimea/Ukraine aggression) for help winning. Don’t know if this will be provable.
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Please don't misuse the term "whataboutism."
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Interesting, but isn’t the main point of Trump investigation that he traded favorable policy for the dirt? So it’s not just that it was a campaign contribution, it was a de facto acceptance of foreign bribery. Zero suggestion that HRC camp traded policy favors for Steele report.
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Thank you. I feel like this fact keeps getting lost
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Hey, why are you implying the Russian dirt was free? Clearly they were trading favors for it.
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Only free in the sense of being "a contribution" ie not purchased and accounted for as a campaign expenditure.
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I've also been thinking about how companies like Black Cube -- there was another I read about from Israel too -- they are more than providing marketing and demographic info...
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The big problem with the help from the Russians is not that it wasn't paid for, but that Trump actually promised changes in US policy favorable to Russia. Isn't there an element of bribery here?
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This is a nice explainer. Although, if it comes out that Cohen actually went out and paid “Romanian” hackers for their trouble, it’s probably the next fall back position for the Trumpers.
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So payment for dirt is the difference between legal and illegal? That feels a bit cute. It implies Don Jr. could have stayed legal by asking all the participants in the Trump Tower meeting to accept a nominal fee so he could say he paid them for their info.
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I’ve been looking for this analysis for awhile. Thx.
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And, there's that whole thing about using stolen/hacked data obtained or controlled by a foreign source that is released in a coordinated fashion to influence an election. But, yeah, that's something Nix didn't seem to care about, either. Separate issue.
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Trump camps next defense: We hired CA and paid them $5m so they cld pay Wiki in BTC to pay the Russians for that info, so no contribution.
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