rumitoid

Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said there’s not much room for interpretation when it comes to President Donald Trump’s claim that he’d “listen” if a foreign power offered dirt on a political rival.

“He would be committing a felony,” Napolitano told host Shepard Smith on Thursday.
Trump this week said “there’s nothing wrong with listening” to dirt on an opponent, no matter what the source.

“They have information,” he said in an ABC interview. “I think I’d take it.”

Napolitano said that would be a crime, and there’s “no wiggle room” as the Federal E******n Commission has in previous cases decided that opposition research is considered a “thing of value.”
  
Under the law, a candidate can’t receive anything of value from a foreign national related to a U.S. e******n.

And that means Trump would be committing a crime.

“The president of the United States of America is prepared to commit a felony to get reelected,” he said. “That was my reaction, and it was not a happy one.”

Napolitano also said that whoever gives the president that info would also be committing a felony.

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

And just as soon as we're done prosecuting everyone involved in the DNC/Clinton Team/Obama administration/FBI/CIA/etc who played any part in the illegal spying on the Trump campaign/the creation and use of the Russian Dossier/the fraudulent FISA warrant applications/etc. we'll get after President Trump for...wait...what...oh, he just gave an answer to a hypothetical question asked by a Clinton toadie in order to try to gin up another controversy, so he didn't actually do anything prosecutable. Well as long as we got that other stuff done, let's call it a day.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

So tell me how do you relate info to FBI,if you dont listen first???....Presidents talk to foreign governments all the time, are they supposed to report it to FBI after every single phone call???.This doesn't make sense!!!

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

rumitoid

Your Fantasy Hit Parade of Non-events is fascinating.

rumitoid

You report being approached. You don't listen.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

And what if they are going to tell you that something big and bad is going to happen in ohhhh i dont know,let's say New York??..You still dont listen???...Really??/You would let something bad to happen to Americans just because you think it's coming from Russia???

rumitoid

The question was about accepting "dirt on political opponents," which Trump answered yes to, and not about something "bad is going to happen." Two distinctly different scenarios. The former a crime and the other civic duty.

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

The difference here is that I will wait for the events to unfold (Barr, DOJ IG Report, John Durhams investigations, FISA declass, etc.), while the left invents new controversy almost daily, then goes off the rails pushing it into everyone's faces. If the script isn't obvious (due to it's repetition), my hope is that those not yet aware of the misinformation campaign designed to hide what's being brought to light that happened under the previous administration, will begin to see the light. At that point, if you still want to h**e Donald Trump, then do so. Just quit dismissing or ignoring what has been done by those bad actors I spoke about in my previous post.

Hug

The judge is a never TRUMP and full of it.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Under the law, a candidate can’t receive anything of value from a foreign national related to a U.S. e******n.

Trump hasn't done this. The Hillary camp, and DNC have.
Where is your outrage over it?

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I'm tracking with ya!

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Isn't what you people call opposition research???

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

I think when the anti-Trumpers do it it's called an insurance policy...

"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I'm afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40." - Peter Strzok, Aug 2016