Explain to me the Trump Jr situation

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Trump business buddy - "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and it's support of Trump."

Trums Son - "If it is what you say, I love it".

Attempted collusion with a foreign government, but the jury's is still out as to whether that is a crime.

I would do the same thing and so would Hillionaire foo.

Someone who drinks Stoli claimed to have dirt on Hillary. Jr. took the meeting.

Nothing came of it. There were no plans, conspiracies, or collision.

Media finds out and it fuels media's wild fantasies and speculation.

That's about it.

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I would not do the same thing, at least not with Russia.

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How about the Ukraine comrade?

Trump Jr. will be on Hannity tonite; let him explain. Not that he needs to; only a slacker would have turned down the 'dirty laundry' on Hillary. And Jr. knows better than to slack.

I just want to know what aspect of digging up dirt on your opponent is illegal? Seems like every election has some degree of illegality to it if finding dirt on your opponent is a crime

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So there wasn't any dirt. Let's say there was dirt, but they got it from an individual instead of a gov. Is there still outage over that? Makes no sense to me

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The theory would be that you don't want quid pro quo favors from a foreign government (particularly one that isn't exactly an ally) in exchange for being beholden to that foreign government or giving return favors to that foreign government that might not be in the best interest of the US. Of course the Trump Jr meeting with the lawyer everyone is going crazy about seems to be a far cry from anything close to that scenario, but in theory that is why you would not want campaign financing or other discreet "favors" from a foreign government in a campaign.

It's legitimate to be concerned that any administration's decision-making would be compromised by favors owed to a potentially adverse foreign nation. Of course we all know that in this global political and economic world such entanglements do exist but hopefully not in a way that seriously jeopardizes US interests. However, there is simply no evidence thus far that the Trump administration is in any way improperly influenced or compromised by Russia (to the contrary Trump has made some decidedly anti-Russian decisions thus far). This Trump Jr thing is really the first piece of evidence at all on the "collusion" front, but it's really not much and alone won't amount to anything. People are wondering if they finally found the tip of the iceberg. That remains to be seen I guess.