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President Trump Changed His Story on Son's Meeting with Russian Lawyer

posted by martyb on Tuesday August 07 2018, @05:08PM   
from the "A-Tale-of-Flodden-Field" dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

5News reports:

President Donald Trump appears to have changed his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsel's investigation, tweeting that his son met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to collect information about his political opponent.

[...] That is a far different explanation than Trump gave 13 months ago, when a statement dictated by the president but released under the name of Donald Trump Jr., read: "We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago."

also at Vox, MSN and Mic

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Original Submission

• Re:None of this was a crime for Russians to do (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:19PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @08:19PM (#718970)

  No, it is a crime for them too. Its (probably) not a crime under Russian law, but it is a crime under US law. Citizenship is not a requirement to make illegitimate campaign contributions illegal.

  BTW, we have statutes that make similar things illegal for Americans to do that kind of thing in foreign countries. I'm not a lawyer, especially not an international relations lawyer, but off the top of my head, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act would probably come into play if Americans tried to do stuff like that. It definitely comes into play when Americans try to bribe politicians in foreign countries for business purposes, even if the bribe is technically legal there.

  You will be unsurprised to learn that trump has a long and public history of hating on the FCPA.

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