That old saying "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" only applies to certain people and/or crimes. According to the Mueller Report, though the investigation was able to prove the Trump Tower meeting that Trump Jr., Manfort and Kushner attended to obtain "information of value" would have constituted a prosecutable violation of campaign-finance laws, the Special Counsel did not feel confident they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt Trump Jr., Manfort or Kushner knew its illegality. There are reasonable arguments that the offered information would constitute a "thing...

There is certain information considered to be top-secret. This is information so important that only certain people in the world have credentials to discuss it, and even less have access to it. One such piece of information was the coordinated interference by the Russian Government of the 2016 US election. The US government knew about the interference in early 2016, but this information was considered to be top-secret and could not be shared with candidate Trump. Once a nominee from each party emerges, certain information is shared with...

As I described in a previous post, Trump never intended to be President. During his 2016 Presidential campaign (which began in June 2015) there were many reports that Trump had Russian interests and as the Mueller Report confirmed, they at least began in 2013. Those Russian interests had tremendous potential and a reasonable person could consider them to be the overriding motive for his favorable stance on Russia. The LOI (Letter of Intent) called for the Trump Organization to receive 5% of all gross sales up to $100...

One of the biggest accusations of the Trump Campaign during the election was Trump's involvement with Russia. The love-affair between Trump and Putin (Russia President) was evident; from Trump's choice of words when referring to Putin, to his denial of interference (even after all US intelligence offices had confirmed it), to his portrayal of "the hacker" being a 400-pound guy. As long as it was not the Russians, that is all that mattered. Yet, when asked if he had any business interests in Russia, Trump's immediate response was...