Chris Wray said it was illegal.
It violates election laws, probably espionage laws. it's not only illegal but unamerican.
The Emoluments clause of the Constitution was put in that document to PREVENT foreign influence over our leaders and here is Trump virtually BEGGING for that influence to be exerted on him
We need the pols to get off their asses and clarify the election Laws to stipulate what is legal and illegal. The FBI Deputy Director said that discussing dirt/info on candidates is protected by the 1st Amendment, it is NOT illegal and is NOT a "thing of value". Getting illegal campaign contributions is against the Law.
The Emoluments Clause is an anti-bribery stipulation. They tried to hit Trump with that and the courts oppose it.
Lawsuit accusing Trump of violating Constitution gets hostile reception
This is not rocket science. It's not confusing.
But yea...with Republicans we DO need to spell out what everyone else understands ... unfortunately they block all efforts at correcting things like this
Democrats’ Hypocrisy on ‘Foreign Interference’
You fool no one
When a Republican benefits, it’s treason; when Democrats are in charge, the intelligence agencies serve their candidates.
The Media-Democrat shrieking over President Trump’s twaddle about taking campaign-related information from foreign powers: Is it just silly or actually dangerous?
Ukrainian parliamentarian was a source for Hillary’s campaign leak of oppo about the secret payments to Manafort.
Clinton had an amateur-hour arrangement where a cut-out law firm hired the cut-out grifters from Fusion GPS, and then they did the dirty work of hiring the foreign spy to tap the Russian sources — in their spare time from
helping Putin’s cronies beat back the Justice Department.
There is no legal mandate to report outreach from foreign governments because it is not against the law to take information. We are not dealing with a crime, and there is no legal duty to report anything to the FBI.
SITUATIONAL ETHICS
In the 2016 election, Estonia did call President Obama’s administration to provide opposition research — specifically, to convey unverified intelligence that Russia might be channeling money into the Trump campaign. The Brits provided information too. So did the Aussies. So, according to former CIA director John Brennan, did a number of European governments.
Like Brennan, they had their own anti-Trump agendas. The foreign-affairs component of Trump’s populist platform seemed to be: better relations with Putin, NATO bashing, skepticism about American interventions and military commitments, and halting the U.S. taxpayer-funded gravy train for European security. Europeans did not like this, not one little bit. Next thing you knew, there were streams of anti-Trump intelligence being channeled into the CIA — none of which, it turns out, established a Trump–Russia “collusion” conspiracy. But when it comes to these countries’ “interference” in our election, I know you’ll be shocked that Democrats are not only unconcerned; they are outraged that the Justice Department is investigating!
‘Foreign Interference’: Trump's Comments and Democrats' Hypocrisy | National Review
