This week the Republican Party block a bill to require campaigns to report cases foreign interference. This is after the President openly admitted he would accept foreign government information on political opponents if offered - which to be clear is illegal and commonly called collusion.
Here's what the President said,
“It’s not an interference, they have information. I think I’d take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI. If I thought there was something wrong.”
That “if” is doing a lot of work for him. What does it mean as wrong? Would he call the FBI only if the info was of criminal activity, but what about just problematic for the candidate? Does it matter if the information is true or false, it’s a foreign government attempting to interfere with the election - false info can be just as devastating as true info? No matter what you tell the FBI what is happening here. You don’t even entertain the meeting. He says he’ll take the meeting and then decide if it should go to the FBI. Accepting anything from a foreign government for your campaign is wrong and illegal. His hand-picked FBI Director said that you call the FBI and Trump's response was that the FBI Director is wrong.
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The Mueller report clearly explains that the only reason Don Jr wasn’t charged with accepting foreign assistance was that they could prove he knew it was against the law. Not that he didn’t do it, not that it wasn’t wrong, but that he could prove he was aware what he was doing was wrong at the time. The FBI warned the Trump campaign of Russia’s plans in August and they still never told them about the meetings in June. Well, that ship has sailed. We are all aware that that is illegal now and the President, defender of our Constitution and federal laws, admitted that he would accept that illegal help.
In addition to block the No Collusion Act (not the real name), the Republican Majority Leader of the Senate continues to block every bill to improve election security. The only thing the Republicans and Democrats agree about in the Mueller Report is that Russia was and is probing and even penetrating our election software. Every state was attacked and a few times they got in. They did the same in 2018 and will do so again in 2020, but Republicans do nothing. It’s almost like they never actually cared about the sanctity of the ballot box.
The words of Trump and the actions of the Republicans in Congress are inviting Russia and any other country that wants to to attack America and interfere in our elections. They should be ashamed of themselves.
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