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oberliner

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17. Did you not read the article?

Reply to aggiesal (Reply #14)

Tue Jun 28, 2016, 05:07 PM

Jun 2016

It is, of course, extremely illegal for foreign nationals to donate to election campaigns. Given Trump’s ignorance of the law in general and his campaign’s now notorious inefficiency and incompetence, we can assume that the Trump camp simply bought lots of email lists and began spamming them with desperate requests for money, not knowing that some of them led to Scottish members of Parliament.

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Bwahahahaha tRump Jr. begging for money gets told HELL no. This is awesome [View all] demtenjeep Jun 2016 OP

Ha ha!!! Initech Jun 2016 #1

The English are so polite, except..... guillaumeb Jun 2016 #2

Who you calling English? TexasProgresive Jun 2016 #4

The English? oberliner Jun 2016 #16

I read the post. Why? guillaumeb Jun 2016 #24

She's quite emphatically Scottish! Denzil_DC Jun 2016 #27

I read her post and am aware of where Glasgow is. guillaumeb Jun 2016 #29

Oh, OK. n/t Denzil_DC Jun 2016 #30

Hoots Man jpak Jun 2016 #28

English?!?!? Dafuq? Rhythm Jun 2016 #25

She didn't call him oswaldactedalone Jun 2016 #3

I'm almost certain that "jizztrumpet" was typed in that email but edited out before sending. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2016 #12

And it's beyond appalling SheilaT Jun 2016 #5

It's also illegal for candidates to solicit contributions from foreign nationals meow2u3 Jun 2016 #18

Isn't it illegal to solicit donations from foreign nationals? Glassunion Jun 2016 #6

It's highly illegal to do so meow2u3 Jun 2016 #20

It's also illegal. Foreigners can't contribute sufrommich Jun 2016 #7

Fantastic! they do have some fucking nerve....K&R... spanone Jun 2016 #8

Needs to be reported to the F.E.C. nt Ilsa Jun 2016 #9

kick ailsagirl Jun 2016 #10

Did he try genuflecting? Helen Borg Jun 2016 #11

Maybe he should have sent one of his kids to law school. avebury Jun 2016 #13

Isn't this illegal? ... aggiesal Jun 2016 #14

Did you not read the article? oberliner Jun 2016 #17

See response #15, after I noticed further down. Thanks! n/t aggiesal Jun 2016 #19

Got it! oberliner Jun 2016 #21

Greedy One Percent (GOP) at work ... aggiesal Jun 2016 #23

When I read further down in to the article ... aggiesal Jun 2016 #15

"the begging bowl of your father's repugnant campaign" niyad Jun 2016 #22

I love that she so very POLITELY DemonGoddess Jun 2016 #26

So the big 3 mill that was bragged about tavernier Jun 2016 #31

Thanks for posting. This is the funniest thing I have read all day. LonePirate Jun 2016 #32

I am confused I read about the Trump campaign being broke. But today I got 3 e-mails doc03 Jun 2016 #33

I notice you use this word to describe the Trump- tRump Jim Beard Jun 2016 #34