Trump Jr. violated campaign finance law by accepting help from Wikileaks bc Assange is australian.

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/13/1715336/-Donald-Jr-violated-Federal-Law-when-coordinating-with-Wikileaks

As the Atlantic reports today Wikileaks reached out to Don Trump Jr. with various suggestions during the 2016 campaign, and in some cases he followed their advice and responded back with requests of his own. They even suggested that if Trump lost on election day, that he should refuse to concede and challenge the results.

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When WikiLeaks first reached out to Trump Jr. about putintrump.org, for instance, Trump Jr. followed up on his promise to “ask around.” According to a source familiar with the congressional investigations into Russian interference with the 2016 campaign, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, on the same day that Trump Jr. received the first message from WikiLeaks, he emailed other senior officials with the Trump campaign, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Brad Parscale, and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, telling them WikiLeaks had made contact. Kushner then forwarded the email to campaign communications staffer Hope Hicks. At no point during the 10-month correspondence does Trump Jr. rebuff WikiLeaks, which had published stolen documents and was already observed to be releasing information that benefited Russian interests.

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The problem with all of this is clearly that Wikileaks is not an American entity. They aren’t an American company while Julian Assange himself is technically — just like Rupert Murdock — is an Australian.

And that coordinating your campaign or accepting gifts of any value from foreign nationals or organization is a direct violation of Federal Campaign Finance Laws.




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Heyyyyyyyyy! Wikileaks is volunteering to help our campaign! No way this could backfire!

Heyyyyyyyyy! That russian lawyer has promised to deliver dirt on Hillary! No way this could backfire!

[Madam45for2923]

1. Question: why would Wikileaks help someone like Donald? I see that they did, but why?

[dhol82]

2. Because Assange is in bed with Putin?

[Madam45for2923]

3. Yes, it is the only answer that makes sense. Am trying to come with other answers but don't see it.

[Achilleaze]

4. Bingo! for picking the republican's duplitious Crony Comrade !

[dhol82]

5. Love it!

Really love that this is BONUS card!

[DetlefK]

6. Assange is not in bed with Putin. Assange just really, really, really hates Hillary.

[dhol82]

8. He might hate Hillary but he is bed with Putin.

[Madam45for2923]

13. Nope, he is. It shows in his correspondence with Jr.

[L. Coyote]

12. First, we need to identify who was using Wikileaks e-mail.

Was someone in Russia doing this or an accused pervert hiding in a closet in London?

[still_one]

7. Assange is Putin's boy. It is not a coincidence that Wikileaks spared Putin any negative coverage.

[L. Coyote]

9. Wikileaks is not a person. Who was running the Wikileaks e-mail? Russia? Did Jr. even know?

It could be the Jr. didn't even know who was sending him those "Wikileaks" e-mails. Putin's tiny fingers could have been on the keyboard, for all he knew.

[DetlefK]

11. Wikileaks has no nationality, but its servers are in Russia, hosted by a russian cyber-criminal.

https://www.inquisitr.com/4058105/wikileaks-russia-donald-trump-julian-assange-nigel-farage-ecuador-roger-stone-guccifer-2-0/

[PJMcK]

10. Major error in the linked article

Rupert Murdoch, whom I hate with the fire of a thousand hells, is a naturalized American citizen, like it or not. This is from Wikipedia:

In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen (and as a result, gave up Australian citizenship) in 1985 to satisfy the legal requirement for U.S. television ownership.

Julian Assange is Australian. There is no "technicality" as the article suggests. One is an American and the other is not. And the author of the column spells "Murdoch" wrong. These are facts.