CAMPAIGN/NANCY PELOSI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday [7-14-17] that she thinks President Trump and his family members may have violated campaign finance law, and potentially laws prohibiting cybercrime and espionage as well, through their meetings with Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential campaign.
‘On the strength of what they have now there is very serious reason to believe that these people violated the law,’ she said, listing the laws she thinks Donald Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign manager Paul Manafort may have broken in meeting with a Russian lawyer with alleged ties to the Kremlin.
Though Pelosi said it was necessary to learn more about the meeting to determine whether Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort’s actions may invite cybercrime and espionage charges, she seemed all but certain that the meeting already put Trump’s team in violation of campaign finance law.
‘This is a campaign violation: soliciting, coordinating or accepting something of value, opposition research, documented information from a foreign government or foreign national. Plain and simple,’ Pelosi said.”
-Karoun Demirjian, “Pelosi suggests Trump surrogates violated law as members try to force votes on matters related to Russia probe,” The Washington Post online, July 14, 2017 12:02pm