Trump On Foreigners Offering Dirt On Opponents: "I Think I'd Take It"

Donald Trump admits he'd accept dirt on political opponents from foreign countries

Holy crap!

From ABC News:

Asked by ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos in the Oval Office on Wednesday whether his campaign would accept such information from foreigners -- such as China or Russia -- or hand it over the FBI, Trump said, "I think maybe you do both."

"I think you might want to listen, there isn't anything wrong with listening," Trump continued. "If somebody called from a country, Norway, [and said] ‘we have information on your opponent' -- oh, I think I'd want to hear it."

President Trump lamented the attention on his son, Donald Trump Jr., for his role in the now-infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016. Stephanopoulos asked whether Trump Jr. should have taken the Russians' offer for "dirt" on then-candidate Hillary Clinton to the FBI.

"Somebody comes up and says, ‘hey, I have information on your opponent,' do you call the FBI?" Trump responded.

"I'll tell you what, I've seen a lot of things over my life. I don't think in my whole life I've ever called the FBI. In my whole life. You don't call the FBI. You throw somebody out of your office, you do whatever you do," Trump continued. "Oh, give me a break – life doesn't work that way."

When Stephanopolous points out that the FBI director says you should report such contact, Trump says flatly, "The FBI director is wrong."

This is why Trump has been incredulous at the allegations leveled at him. I think in Trump World he honestly doesn't see anything wrong with accepting aid from a foreign country in an election (which in the United States IS illegal).

Watch below.

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— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 12, 2019

Schumer on Trump: "And he wonders why people think there might be collusion? Well, there's why ... The president's comments, again, are undemocratic, un-American, disgraceful."
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— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 13, 2019

Trump just told @GStephanopoulos he’d gladly take a foreign power’s negative info on his 2020 opponent if it was offered to him! He said “the FBI Director is wrong” that this wd be illegal. That’s the price we pay for refusing even to start an impeachment inquiry now. Grotesque.

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 12, 2019

With comments like this the President of the United States is essentially inviting foreign powers to interfere in our democracy for his own political gain.

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— Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 12, 2019