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On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
Well, they can be accused of a crime for cooking books and doing things, but they can't be accused of a crime, of violating a campaign finance law, when the only precedent out there at the time was that you're not -- it's not a violation of the campaign finance law, and one of the conditions of breaking the law is the knowledge you're breaking the law. So, you can't really have a crime.
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Rick Santorum
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Santorum argues that Trump Org cannot be accused of violating campaign finance law based on existing legal precedents.

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