Trump’s campaign manager accidentally admits Trump broke the law on live TV

There's really nothing to discuss here. They made it clear the legality hinges on that license, and they made it clear they cannot prove it wasn't granted. All they have is pure speculation.

Everything in that article goes out of it's way to directly say "this definitely happened". This article is meaningless to anyone rationally looking at it, because it never definitively says anything about Trump's involvement.

There's only one part that they come close to doing so:

The 1999 document also makes clear that executives were still discussing the legal requirements for such a trip after the consultants had already returned from Cuba.

And all we have is their word to take on it, because they never tells us how it 'makes clear' that something illegal occurred. Hey, you know who else was sure they had some verifiable dirt on the Trumps? Politico when they said his wife did a photoshoot in America before she was legally allowed. Only problem was they got the year wrong, moving the time table into one that lines up with the Trumps statements on the matter.

So pardon me if I take "makes clear" with a grain of salt from an article that is obviously a political hit piece.

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