Thread by @rgoodlaw

Important legal issue:

Barr's Justice Dept appears to have come up with an extremely flawed and dangerous (for our election security) basis for why #Ukrainegate (soliciting dirt from foreign power) is not a crime.

Flies in face of top expert reasoning in Mueller report.
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2. Barr's Justice Dept concluded seeking info from Ukraine "didn’t amount to a 'thing of value' that could be quantified, which is what the campaign finance laws require" (@ZoeTillman report)

That flies in face of *best* legal reasoning in Mueller Report. Read these sections:

@ZoeTillman 3. How clear is the law?

On June 13, 2019 after Trump told @GStephanopoulos he'd take dirt from foreign power, the Chair of Federal Election Commission issued a statement

It began: "Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office..."

4. How clear is the law that this kind of information from Ukraine would be a "thing of value."

Just ask the country's top election law experts.

Here's @ThePaulSRyan:

justsecurity.org/66277/the-quid…

@ThePaulSRyan 5. Here's another of the country's top election law experts @rickhasen who, like Paul Ryan and others, has also been a straight shooter throughout all this.

https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1176506981353279489

... and stay tuned for analysis of the #Ukrainegate transcript itself coming soon @just_security

@ThePaulSRyan @rickhasen @just_security 6. Barr's Justice Dept reportedly concluded the #Ukrainegate info "didn’t amount to a 'thing of value' that could be quantified."

What a poor argument.

Among other things, all Giuliani's time and trips are quantifiable out of pocket expenses showing value they saw in the info.