FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub Rebukes Trump over Statements on Accepting Election Help from Foreign Governments. She issued a thinly veiled Rebuke of Trump on Thursday over the President’s Stance on Accepting Opposition Research from Foreign Governments on his Political Adversaries. She expressed her Disbelief that Trump believed Accepting Foreign Assistance in a U.S. Political Election was Permissible.

While Weintraub emphasized that Trump’s Position was Indeed against U.S. Law and that Foreign Governments seeking to Influence American Elections did so for their Own Benefit, other Critics noted that Accepting such Help also came with a Price.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), was one of the voices in his Party to Decry Trump’s near Solicitation of Foreign Election Meddling. “That would be simply unthinkable for a candidate for president to accept that involvement, to encourage it, to participate with it in any way, shape or form,” Romney told reporters Thursday. “It would strike at the very heart of our democracy,”

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In her Draft Letter setting forth her View of FEC Law, she explains that Candidates Soliciting Opposition Research Not at Market Rates Violate the Federal Law.

Even Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade found Trump’s Ethical Formulation Troubling. “You don’t want a foreign government or foreign entity giving you information because they will want something back,” Kilmeade said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning. “If anybody knows that it is the president. There is no free lunch. If someone wants information they want influence. I think the president’s got to clarify that. … He opened himself wide up to attacks.”

This cannot be acted on by an FEC because currently there is no Quorum.










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