Campaign-finance law may be one of the few areas of the law where ignorance is bliss. In Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s February 2018 indictment of Russian operatives, he stated that Russians talked to unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign. The open question over the past year was whether there was any intentional conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russians—for instance, at a fateful meeting at Trump Tower between Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Kremlin-connected lawyer, and others. The release of Mueller’s report highlights one reason the members of the Trump campaign were …read more
Source: The Atlantic
