he will violate the gag order less often...

to me right now. I guess after a certain level, the Logan act has gone the way of the Hatch Act. I'm so incensed that they're allowing *rump to do all these world leader meetings... months prior to the election. This is all so compromising of election integrity, IMO. Not -just- the meetings, per se... but the allowing these meetings with no rebuttal or issues raised by the Democrats. People assume this is normal. It has never been "normal" prior to *rump. And it furthers conspiracy theories out there that *rump is actually the real president and has been since the 2020 election, and Biden is only a puppet. It also allows the R's to further their line that world leaders don't want to meet with Biden because of his age, etc. As well as playing into the "America is so weak under biden" conspiracy theory.

This should be... and once was, I believe... that this is illegal. If nothing else, *rump should be fined for not reporting as a foreign agent for all these countries. Who knows what kind of malfeasance is being drummed up to effect our election! No... this should be stopped immediately.

I personally don’t believe he (or any other non-elected official) should be allowed to hold these sorts of “official meetings” meant to represent the US.

If (God forbid), he becomes the President-elect after November, then fine, he can be afforded the respect 🤢🤢🤢🤮 he doesn’t deserve.

is that Aso is "former". I had to do a double-take but then realized that the CURRENT PM, Fumio Kishida, who was just here in the U.S. a bit less than 2 weeks ago, did NOT do this (unlike the current President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, who did, whereas Poland's PM Donald Tusk, did NOT).

Why else would they meet?

Every DOJ since the act was implemented 225 years ago has said it is unconstitutional. So they will not enforce it.

It probably pisses off the WH, too.

But, when the government official (can't remember his name) from Sweden (can't remember that, either, LOL) went to MAL to visit him, I read that this was required. Who required it, I can't remember (batting 1000 today.) But the idea was, during an election year, visiting dignitaries have to meet with both sides. That would be both Biden and Trump (unfortunately.) It's like getting briefed on secret stuff. We do that, although whether we have to make up an excuse for not doing it for national security in this case is not clear, and probably as yet untested.

I don't think these countries have a choice. I think we could probably see that Biden has met with them, or higher officials rather than "former" officials. I'll bet they come away hoping that Trump loses.

LOSER meets LOSER!!!