Well if you had read the report, it would tell you that Trump Jr committed the act required to break the law but because he's too stupid to know what he was doing was illegal Mueller and his team thought it may be difficult to prove intent and secure procecution.
Trumps son spoke to a Russian agent imported by the Dems but no action was taken, Try again!So you admit it then? And your implication that there was no wrongdoing because no action was taken, where are you getting that from?
Ok, let's recap. In June of 2016, Trump Jr. agreed to sit down with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian attorney who promised, in the words of the intermediary who set up the meeting, "official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia" as "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump."
Trump Jr. needed only minutes to respond. "If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer," he said "it", in this context, referring to the unambiguously-described efforts of a hostile foreign power to interfere directly in a U.S. presidential election and at the least, provide the Trump Campaign team with a "thing of value" originating from a foreign national.
Federal law prohibits anyone from soliciting, accepting, or receiving "a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value" from foreign nationals in connection with any election.
The circumstances of the Trump Tower meeting, Mueller says, could "support an inference that the Campaign anticipated receiving derogatory documents and information from official Russian sources that could assist candidate Trump's electoral prospects."
The report compares the Clinton dirt offered by Veselnitskaya to opposition research, reasoning that it might qualify as a "thing of value" under the statute because political campaigns frequently pay for opposition research.
The same statutory scheme, however, also sets out different punishments for violations of this provision, which depend on the value of the unlawful "contribution" in question. Case law further requires the government to prove that conduct was "knowing" and "willful" that is, that the defendant knew they were breaking the law in order to establish a prosecutable violation.
This, says Mueller's team, is what undercuts potential prosecution of Trump Jr.
Mueller then goes on to state in the report,
Quote:The investigation has not developed evidence that the participants in the meeting were familiar with the foreign-contribution ban or the application of federal law to the relevant factual context.
So there was no action taken against Trump Jr. not because he didn't conduct the act he was accused of, but because it was deemed because he was ignorant of the law and the difficulties in setting a dollar value on the information he was soliciting that it would be a difficult case to prosecute.
So don't for a second pretend he didn't do it because, like his father and President Zelensky, we KNOW it happened.
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