Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen might be in hot water for allegedly violating the 1799 law that forbids any unauthorized diplomacy, like his recent trip to El Salvador, where he had a meeting with a suspected member of the nefarious MS-13 gang who was deported to his home country after it was discovered he had entered the U.S. illegally.
Can you believe that an actual person is willing to go to bat for a criminal who is suspected of participating in human trafficking, illegal immigration, beating his wife, and who knows what else, working in the legislative branch of our country’s government? It’s truly deplorable and says everything you need to know about the current state of the Democratic Party.
Legal analysts and political commentators are saying that Van Hollen may have violated the Logan Act, which was named after former Penn. Sen. George Logan. The act enables our government to slap criminal penalties on any Americans that are corresponding with officials from foreign countries “with the intent to influence their measures…in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States.”
“It has been U.S. law since 1799, when Logan met with French diplomat Charles de Talleyrand in defiance of then-President John Adams’ diplomatic goals. Logan, in conjunction with Thomas Jefferson, was attempting to end U.S. hostilities with France in what was known as the Quasi War,” Trending Politics News said in a new report.
Several legal analysts and political commentators have argued that Van Hollen violated the Logan Act with this week’s meeting. WMAL host Vince Coglianese read the Logan Act aloud during Friday’s broadcast and laid out how Van Hollen’s conduct appears to have crossed the necessary threshold.
“The Logan Act says any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with the intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than three years or both,” Coglianese went on to explain.
Coglianese added that this very same statute was used by the radical left to prosecute former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn over allegations he didn’t disclose contacts he made with Turkish officials.
“General Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, was merely having conversations with foreign diplomats, foreign dignitaries, as the incoming national security advisor. The American people had spoken, they chose President Trump. President Trump chose the people who worked for him, including General Mike Flynn at the time as his national security advisor. So in other words, Mike Flynn wasn’t violating any law. Flynn was working on behalf of the people who just voted for Trump,” the radio host continued. “And yet here you have Chris Van Hollen kind of seems open and shut. He’s violating the law. Absolutely, yes.”
The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) wrote a letter to Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, who serves as the chairman for the Senate Ethics Committee, asking they open an investigation into potential violations related to Van Hollen’s visit to El Salvador.
“Mr. Abrego-Garcia is essentially an enemy combatant in the ongoing invasion of the United States by transnational gangs,” AAF President Thomas Jones wrote to the heads of the Senate Ethics Committee and Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD). “Despite the overwhelming evidence, Senator Van Hollen decided that he would use Senate funds to fly to El Salvador and advocate for an enemy of the United States,” the letter to the committee stated.
Another aspect of this fiasco worth consideration is whether the trip was paid for with U.S. tax dollars. The AAF is asking for Thune to tell the secretary of the Senate to ensure no chamber funds are being used, along with launching a probe to look for potential violations of the Logan Act.
“Van Hollen was in El Salvador meeting with leaders of the Salvadorian government to attempt to secure Mr. Garcia’s release,” Jones said in the letter to Lankford. “It is hard to imagine a more hostile intrusion into U.S. foreign policy than attempting to smuggle a foreign enemy combatant into the United States.”
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