Trump Says He Might Accept Opposition Research From Foreign Countries
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Trump Says He’d Consider Accepting Information on His Rivals From Foreign Governments
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.
“It’s not an interference, they have information—I think I’d take it,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with ABC News. “If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI—if I thought there was something wrong.”
But Mr. Trump maintained that he believed there wasn’t anything wrong with listening.
“If somebody called from...
From the Right
Trump flips script on Dem outrage over comments on foreign dirt
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.
“I meet and talk to ‘foreign governments’ every day,” the president tweeted Thursday.
Citing recent conversations with leaders in the United Kingdom and Ireland, France and Poland, Trump said, “We talked about ‘Everything!’ Should I immediately...
From the Left
Legal Experts Explode Over Donald Trump’s ‘Despicable’ 2020 Bombshell
“This is an open invitation to foreign governments to commit crimes to re-elect Trump.”
Legal analysts, attorneys and former prosecutors have joined the growing chorus of criticism of Donald Trump after the president confessed on national TV that he’d willfully receive dirt on his 2020 rivals from foreign powers ― and perhaps not inform the FBI about it.
Trump’s astonishing admission in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos was described as “despicable” by Walter Shaub, the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
Shaub, who served under...
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