BREAKING: Jared Kushner is the very senior member of the presidential transition team mentioned in

[MelissaB]

BREAKING: Jared Kushner is the “very senior member of the presidential transition team” mentioned in the statement of offense as speaking to Flynn on Dec 22nd about the UN resolution regarding Israel, two people familiar with the matter tell @NBCNews

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. So how long before Mueller goes to Jared? nt

[moda253]

2. Squeeze.... Squeeze... all the way to the top.

Until this giant orange boil pops.

[maxsolomon]

3. I want to understand what this issue is here

Twitler had won the election by Dec 22nd, he was a month away from assuming office.

I presume that acting as President before you're actually President is frowned upon, but what law does it break?

[avebury]

4. You can only have one President at a time dealing

with foreign affairs. Trump had no right to be talking to the Russians regarding the the sanctions until after he took the oath of office.

Remember that Reagan's people interfered with the Carter Administration's efforts to deal with the Iranian hostage situation? It did a lot of harm to Carter's re-election efforts.

[maxsolomon]

6. I do, and I remember Reagan suffering Zero consequences for what I considered Treason

as a 17 year old.

[tammywammy]

5. The Logan Act. n/t

[maxsolomon]

7. Ah, I just had a RWNJ pooh-pooh the Logan Act on another site.

1799 law, no one's ever been prosecuted under it...

Thanks, now I know WTF is the law at issue.

[tammywammy]

8. Plus there's no telling what else

Senior advisors told Flynn to contact the Russians. Up until now everyone has been lying about it. Trump fired Comey because he wouldn't drop the Flynn investigation.

[itsrobert]

9. Also the legal expert on CNN

Jeremy???

[maxsolomon]

13. I saw a Faux article saying it had been found unconstitutional in 1964

"overly broad".

IDGAF, ITMFA.

[FarCenter]

12. Actually, there have been two indictments under the Logan Act, the last in 1852

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act

There have been no convictions.

[VMA131Marine]

11. The working assumption is that there was collusion between the Russian Gov't and the Trump campaign

...PRIOR to the election.

This included material help for the campaign by the Russians and receipt of stolen property (the hacked DNC emails) by the Trump campaign through an intermediary (Wikileaks). Both of these things are criminal in nature. Mueller needs to flip the lower level participants without triggering a constitutional crisis i.e. Trump issuing everyone a blanket pardon and daring Congress to impeach him before the case is fully made. I see this as one more move to box in the principals so that when Trump issues the pardons the evidence is so overwhelming that even the partisan Congress cannot ignore it. Even now, there are people on the right saying that Flynn lied to the FBI, but there was no underlying crime so Trump is in the clear.