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Voltaire2

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3. It isn't clear that the president can violate any espionage acts.

Reply to Mr. Ected (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 7, 2017, 07:00 PM

Jul 2017

Not at least while he is president. There is also the complicating factor that Trump holds the get out of jail card as long as he is president and can use it for any federal crime for any person. As Ford established, blanket pardons for crimes not yet revealed are just fine.

It is actually unlikely that anyone on the campaign team knowingly handed classified information over to Russian agents. There was no reason to do that. Each side had a shared interest in seeing Clinton defeated. Most of them had no access to classified information prior to Nov. 8 anyway.

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You are Trump. You have just colluded with a hostile foreign power in the run-up to the election. [View all] Mr. Ected Jul 2017 OP

It isn't treason. We are not at war with Russia. Voltaire2 Jul 2017 #1

There's treason in a legal sense. There's treason in a colloquial sense. Mr. Ected Jul 2017 #2

It isn't clear that the president can violate any espionage acts. Voltaire2 Jul 2017 #3

He aided and abetted our adversary before the election -- that's how he got to be President. nt pnwmom Jul 2017 #9

Adversary has no legal meaning with respect to Voltaire2 Jul 2017 #11

Modern warfare is just as likely to involve computers as fighter jets. Computers can inflict pnwmom Jul 2017 #7

Sure if they shutdown our power plants that would be Voltaire2 Jul 2017 #13

*45 can be indicted, as sitting POTUS for unlawful acts committed both prior to taking office AND MedusaX Jul 2017 #4

Brilliant synopsis Mr Ected ! You have managed to boil it all down perfectly ! Hard to Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2017 #5

Very well-articulated, Mr. Ected. kentuck Jul 2017 #6

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Our Founders did not write protections against a Mobster Administration. annabanana Jul 2017 #10

Kick. dalton99a Jul 2017 #12