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In reply to the discussion: Donald Trump Says He Wants Russia to Find Clinton's Missing Emails [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)12. Oh, damn!
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation...
(c) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain from any person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of anything connected with the national defense, knowing or having reason to believe, at the time he receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain it...
(g) If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy.
(h)
(1) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall forfeit to the United States, irrespective of any provision of State law, any property constituting, or derived from, any proceeds the person obtained, directly or indirectly, from any foreign government, or any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, as the result of such violation.
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Running for the position of Commander in Chief is unquestionably connected with the national defense. Some sources are estimating that Trump has received up to $300 million in loans and investment from Russia. He just openly conspired to commit espionage.
(a) Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation...
(c) Whoever, for the purpose aforesaid, receives or obtains or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain from any person, or from any source whatever, any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note, of anything connected with the national defense, knowing or having reason to believe, at the time he receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain it...
(g) If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy.
(h)
(1) Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall forfeit to the United States, irrespective of any provision of State law, any property constituting, or derived from, any proceeds the person obtained, directly or indirectly, from any foreign government, or any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, as the result of such violation.
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Running for the position of Commander in Chief is unquestionably connected with the national defense. Some sources are estimating that Trump has received up to $300 million in loans and investment from Russia. He just openly conspired to commit espionage.
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Yah Putin, PICs please or all those beauty contestant fun 'Parties' never happened.
Sunlei
Jul 2016
#2
Is there anything, ANYTHING, this traitor would not hand to ANY foreign power...
63splitwindow
Jul 2016
#9
Let's have the Russians release Comrade Don's tax returns, if they want to prove they are fair :)
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2016
#22
Trump may well know that those emails are already in the hands of Putin. I'm expecting more
floriduck
Jul 2016
#27
That was one of the most extraordinary press conferences I've ever seen by a nominee
markj757
Jul 2016
#28
My husband and I just called our local FBI about trump encouraging foreign governments to hack
Laser102
Jul 2016
#31