Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 calendar might be the gift that keeps on giving to U.S. investigators. In August 2016, months before the presidential election, the president’s eldest son met with a representative of two Gulf States and an Israeli social media specialist, who offered services to help the campaign. That meeting came two months after another one involving a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who was said to be offering dirt on Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. Both meetings, at Trump Tower in New York, raise questions for the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Federal election law bars campaigns from knowingly soliciting contributions from "foreign nationals," a category that includes foreign citizens, corporations and governments. The same law bars these people and entities from contributing anything of value -- directly or indirectly, money or otherwise -- to a campaign (with some limited exceptions). It also bars foreign nationals from having decision-making authority in U.S. political campaigns.
