52 U.S. Code § 30121.Contributions and donations by foreign nationals
U.S. Code
(a)Prohibition: It shall be unlawful for—
(1)a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make—
(A)a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;
(B)a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or
(C)an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or
(2)a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national.
The conspiracy crowd grasps at some mighty thin straws. When a log comes into view, they can't see it. Wonder why not. They can only play dumb with regard to Trump's phone call. I'd have more respect for them if they just acknowledged the quid pro quo and said Yeah, so what?
KindaSkolarly wrote:Is every call Trump makes now to be subject to congressional review? Among other things this is an attack by one branch of the govt on another. The politburo is now demanding transcripts of other calls made by Trump. I hope he doesn't provide them. if he does, then a bad, bad precedent is set for future presidents.
Potentially, any phone call a president makes can be reviewed, why not? It's not as though a president has a right to privacy when dealing with a foreign leader. His calls are always logged by intelligence anyway. The substance of the calls can be reviewed by Congress and even released to the public, subject to national security concerns. Obviously, Congress doesn't want to do that type of monitoring, for efficiency reasons. In this case, a person of conscience thought that the words of the president were extremely concerning, so he wrote the whistleblower memo, deemed by the Inspector General to be valid. The reaction of the deniers fails the Obama test miserably. If the accusation was against Trump's predecessor, is there any doubt that the WB would be hailed as a hero, as Julian Assange was?
Apparently the politburo sees no downside to this. Only problem is, Trump's done nothing wrong. They planted illegal spies in his campaign, then "investigated" him for more than two years, and no wrongdoing was uncovered. Let that sink in. Could any of OUR records withstand that kind of scrutiny? So Trump is clean, and now the Leftists are panicking. Their profitable little crime against humanity in Ukraine is being exposed, so they do as they always do, they project their crime onto Trump. But he's done nothing wrong. He asked the president of Ukraine to resume an investigation into the corrupt Bidens. And to look into possible election interference. Nothing wrong with that.
You're forgetting that the overall purpose of the Mueller investigation was to determine how far the Russian reach extended into the election. Mission accomplished there. They found that Trump himself wasn't criminally liable on the cooperation charge, though they left the obstruction charge open. With the signals Trump was sending out regarding Russia, the FBI, and then the special prosecutor, would have been nuts not to look into them. Biden's actions have been reviewed multiple times, with no findings of blame. But you choose not to believe them. Why Hunter B. had that sweet job on the Burisma board in the first place is possibly sleazy in the general way of politics. I don't know that Biden can be held responsible for being his father and thus lending him the cred that Burisma was seeking.
The most worrisome thing here is that the impeachment will be channeled through the Intelligence Committee, instead of the Judiciary. That means our spook agencies will have a freer hand on Capitol Hill while the crucifixion is going on. And it could be that the Marxists think they have the 2/3rds vote needed in the Senate to convict. FBI = blackmail (remember, it was founded by a man who wore a dress), so blackmail is its specialty. You don't get to be a US Senator unless you have a walk-in closet full of skeletons, so we could see a bunch of Republican senators "inexplicably" vote for impeachment. And if the vote count looks like it might come up one or two shy, then we could go into sudden death. As in the death of a senator from a state with a Democratic governor. Replace the Repub with a Dem, take the vote, and Mao's yer uncle.
Far-fetched indeed. The general thinking is that the Dems run a big risk in moving toward impeachment. It's not politically smart.