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Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
Thu Jun 13, 2019, 07:04 PM Jun 2019

BTW when righty says accepting oppo is NOT illegal , tell them it is because it is

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/13/732340501/fact-check-foreign-interference-and-opposition-research-are-not-the-same


President Trump has conflated an infamous practice in and among political campaigns — "opposition research" — with foreign election interference like that launched by Russia against the United States in 2016.

Are they the same thing? Is foreign interference just a kind of "oppo research," as Trump said in an interview with ABC?

The short answer: No. Oppo research is part of politics. But the law prohibits American political campaigns from taking "a contribution or donation of money or any other thing of value" from foreigners. The ban isn't limited to money, as Justice Department investigators wrote.


Not to mention if any Democrat did it and managed to survive long enough they would go to prison. Likely if any Democrat did any of this righty would gun them down in hours.
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