Headline Roundup • June 13th, 2019
Trump Says He Might Accept Opposition Research From Foreign Countries
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President Trump said Wednesday that his campaign might be willing to accept information from foreign governments that was damaging to his 2020 rivals, adding that he might not divulge such information to the FBI.
āItās not an interference, they have informationāI think Iād take it,ā Mr. Trump said in an interview with ABC News. āIf I thought there was something wrong, Iād go maybe to the FBIāif I thought there was something wrong.ā
But Mr. Trump maintained that he believed there wasnāt anything wrong with listening.
āIf somebody called from...
A defiant President Trump pushed back Thursday against the outrage over his comments that he would be open to accepting opposition research from individuals from foreign countries, arguing he should have no obligation to call the FBI in certain cases while trying to turn the tables on Democratic lawmakers over their own foreign contacts.
āI meet and talk to āforeign governmentsā every day,ā the president tweeted Thursday.
Citing recent conversations with leaders in the United Kingdom and Ireland, France and Poland, Trump said, āWe talked about āEverything!ā Should I immediately...
āThis is an open invitation to foreign governments to commit crimes to re-elect Trump.ā
Legal analysts, attorneys and former prosecutors have joined the growing chorus of criticism of Donald Trump after the president confessed on national TV that heād willfully receive dirt on his 2020 rivals from foreign powers ā and perhaps not inform the FBI about it.
Trumpās astonishing admission in an interview with ABC Newsā George Stephanopoulos was described as ādespicableā by Walter Shaub, the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
Shaub, who served under...
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