Turley: Claiming Trump Violated Campaign Finance Law ‘Drives a Stake Through the Heart of the 1st Amendment’

RUSH EXCERPT:
SCARBOROUGH: "Is he the person most exposed legally right now?"
TURLEY: "Kushner is certainly the person who is most at risk because of these omissions. Investigators are not unfamiliar with people leaving things off sf86s, the form used for classification to get classified -- access to classified evidence. I've filled that out. Many of us have filled that out. It becomes more difficult to make that argument if you are comparing things that you remember and things that you do not. I mean, if you're saying, look, I ate at outback steakhouse in 2013 but somehow forgot to mention the Russian with the interpreter, that's going to lead investigators to wonder whether you intentionally left things off. But we're still some distance from there, but those are the types of crimes that criminal defense attorneys are most worried about. It's very hard to defend against false statements or omission charges. But this other -- these other arguments like the federal election law."