Giuliani Spins Report: ‘Nothing Wrong With Taking Information From Russians’

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President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Sunday defended the Trump campaign’s attempts to accept foreign help during the 2016 election.

“Any candidate in the whole world in America would take information,” Giuliani told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview.

“Who says it’s even illegal?” he asked, adding later: “There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians.”

While accepting foreign campaign help is illegal, Mueller said in his redacted final report released Thursday that he did not charge Donald Trump Jr. or others on the Trump campaign for seeking Russian help — in the form of a meeting they took during the campaign at Trump Tower with several Russians they believed had dirt on Hillary Clinton — because there wasn’t sufficient evidence to establish the Trump officials knew they were breaking the law.

Mueller said of meeting organizer Don Jr., for example, that he “could mount a factual defense that he did not believe his response to the offer and the June 9 meeting itself violated the law.”

Mueller also cited the “difficulty in establishing the required valuation” of the dirt meeting — that is, the challenge of convincing a court that what the Russians offered was valuable enough to have been illegal.

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  1. Fine, even if it was not “taking” but “actively seeking” info that was criminal, Trump’s campaign still did that. They just managed to be criminal.

  2. Of course it is illegal to accept campaign assistance from a foreign ENEMY. Spinning this shit does even more harm because it pretends it’s not illegal.

  3. Holy piece of shit Batman.

  4. Yes there is.
    You vile traitor.
    This conversation is over.

  5. I rise to point out that beyond the legal fine points, it’s obvious to any election professional that when a hostile foreign government steals confidential information and weaponizes it to meddle in a national election, you don’t say “Oh goodie!” and repeatedly encourage them to do it more and praise the effort as it happens, and you then don’t deny that it happened at all, and commit multiple instances of obstruction to prevent the facts coming to light and protect the criminals. You CALL THE FBI the moment you hear such a thing is going on. You announce a bipartisan effort to stop it and future meddling. And you don’t pooh-pooh it as normal, Guiliani, you fucking worm-brained has-been clown. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.

    Oh, and Happy Easter to all celebrants, Chag Sameach to others, and certainly a nice Sunday to everyone. Might be a good day to turn our backs on these freaks and have fellowship with family and friends. Ta for now.

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