“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” said PBS’s Judy Woodruff Monday night. “So, I don’t know where—who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, and that’s to work on that one.”
The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes the negotiation of a dispute between the United States and a foreign government by an unauthorized American citizen. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government’s position. The Act was passed following George Logan’s unauthorized negotiations with France in 1798, and was signed into law by President John Adams on January 30, 1799. The Act was amended in 1994, changing the penalty for violation from “fined $5,000” to “fined under this title”; this appears to be the only amendment to the Act. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony, punishable with imprisonment for up to three years.
Meanwhile Trump is untouchable in his own dimension.
That’s the same thing Nixon did to win in 1968, except with Nixon it was sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks
As if trump would give a shit about Logan.
# but I was told Trump has no power in this conflict
When has that ever stopped Trump from pulling shit.
Trump would let half the world get nuked if it helped him get a few more votes or bucks.
Right, like his phones and other comms aren’t 100% being recorded under surveillance. Who wants to do 3 years in federal prison for leaking the audio? If the crime is up to 3 years, the penalty for blowing a whistle should never be more than the infraction being committed.
Pulling from the Reagan book every chance he gets. I said he’d try this shit.
This fucking clown is a private citizen now. He is no longer president and has no business advising any world leader about anything.
The Logan Act was passed for us poor people who might do this – the rich are exempt
When you’ve got 34 felony convictions already, what’s one more?
Regan did this to Carter. Only now we know about the dirty tricks.
So if this is breaking the law and Trump is a felon on parole, shouldn’t this land him in jail, like right now?
LOCK HIM UP FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DUDE! Just stop breaking laws for like 3 months so we can vote you back to the golf course.
Merrick Garland would love to help but doesn’t want to appear political.
…another offense that will never see the light of day!
Will he actually get in trouble for it though?
What’s the Logan act and does it apply to Republicans?
Like he’s gonna face any consequences.
Remember arms for hostages?
As I just said, if Bibi does this he should seek his funding from this guy. And our country should no longer deal with him.
When in the history of the Logan Act has it ever been used to successfully prosecute civilians interfering with foreign policy for their own political gain?
I just read the entire Logan act (18 USC 953) and I was very disappointed to discover it has nothing to do with Wolverine.
The Logan Act is a toothless law that doesn’t get enforced. A waste of paper.
Well we still haven’t held him accountable for attempting to block a peaceful transition of power by instructing his cult to break into the capitol 4 years ago, so my expectations on this are as low as a rattlesnake’s bellybutton on this one.
Reagan did the same thing with Iran
Straight outta the Nixon treason playbook. This is what Nixon’s campaign did to LBJ in ‘68, torpedoing the Vietnam peace negotiations to make LBJ look bad. In a phone call with Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, LBJ said this was treason. Dirksen replied, “I know.”
56 years ago.
Republicans have been in the treasonous ratfucking business for a very, very long time.
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[https://newrepublic.com/post/185076/donald-trump-scheme-beat-kamala-harris-benjamin-netanyahu-ceasefire](https://newrepublic.com/post/185076/donald-trump-scheme-beat-kamala-harris-benjamin-netanyahu-ceasefire)
“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” said PBS’s Judy Woodruff Monday night. “So, I don’t know where—who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, and that’s to work on that one.”
[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act)
The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes the negotiation of a dispute between the United States and a foreign government by an unauthorized American citizen. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government’s position. The Act was passed following George Logan’s unauthorized negotiations with France in 1798, and was signed into law by President John Adams on January 30, 1799. The Act was amended in 1994, changing the penalty for violation from “fined $5,000” to “fined under this title”; this appears to be the only amendment to the Act. Violation of the Logan Act is a felony, punishable with imprisonment for up to three years.
Meanwhile Trump is untouchable in his own dimension.
That’s the same thing Nixon did to win in 1968, except with Nixon it was sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks
As if trump would give a shit about Logan.
# but I was told Trump has no power in this conflict
When has that ever stopped Trump from pulling shit.
Trump would let half the world get nuked if it helped him get a few more votes or bucks.
Right, like his phones and other comms aren’t 100% being recorded under surveillance. Who wants to do 3 years in federal prison for leaking the audio? If the crime is up to 3 years, the penalty for blowing a whistle should never be more than the infraction being committed.
Pulling from the Reagan book every chance he gets. I said he’d try this shit.
This fucking clown is a private citizen now. He is no longer president and has no business advising any world leader about anything.
The Logan Act was passed for us poor people who might do this – the rich are exempt
When you’ve got 34 felony convictions already, what’s one more?
Regan did this to Carter. Only now we know about the dirty tricks.
So if this is breaking the law and Trump is a felon on parole, shouldn’t this land him in jail, like right now?
LOCK HIM UP FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DUDE! Just stop breaking laws for like 3 months so we can vote you back to the golf course.
Merrick Garland would love to help but doesn’t want to appear political.
…another offense that will never see the light of day!
Will he actually get in trouble for it though?
What’s the Logan act and does it apply to Republicans?
Like he’s gonna face any consequences.
Remember arms for hostages?
As I just said, if Bibi does this he should seek his funding from this guy. And our country should no longer deal with him.
When in the history of the Logan Act has it ever been used to successfully prosecute civilians interfering with foreign policy for their own political gain?
I just read the entire Logan act (18 USC 953) and I was very disappointed to discover it has nothing to do with Wolverine.
The Logan Act is a toothless law that doesn’t get enforced. A waste of paper.
Well we still haven’t held him accountable for attempting to block a peaceful transition of power by instructing his cult to break into the capitol 4 years ago, so my expectations on this are as low as a rattlesnake’s bellybutton on this one.
Reagan did the same thing with Iran
Straight outta the Nixon treason playbook. This is what Nixon’s campaign did to LBJ in ‘68, torpedoing the Vietnam peace negotiations to make LBJ look bad. In a phone call with Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, LBJ said this was treason. Dirksen replied, “I know.”
56 years ago.
Republicans have been in the treasonous ratfucking business for a very, very long time.