Trump Could Face Up to One Year in Prison If Convicted for Violating 18 U.S. Code § 597.
18 U.S. Code § 597.
Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and
Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 721; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §601(a)(12), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)
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What Donald Trump promised a Pennsylvania mother-of-three in a grocery store as he handed her a $100 bill
Donald Trump paid $100 towards the groceries of a mother shopping in Pennsylvania on Monday.
During a living room politics stop at a local grocery store chain in western Pennsylvania, the former president took money from his wallet to help a woman checking out with her three sons.
'Here,' Trump said while taking out a Benjamin and handing it to a store patron checking out.
'It's going to go down a little bit,' he said of her grocery bill that day. 'It just went down $100.'
'We'll do that for you for the White House, alright?' he said, asking for the mother-of-three's vote.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13883893/donald-trump-pennsylvania-rally-mom-grocery-store.html
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There's nothing wrong with Trump paying for the customer's groceries. The legal question is whether it was an inducement for her vote in November.
Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and
Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 721; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §601(a)(12), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)
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What Donald Trump promised a Pennsylvania mother-of-three in a grocery store as he handed her a $100 bill
Donald Trump paid $100 towards the groceries of a mother shopping in Pennsylvania on Monday.
During a living room politics stop at a local grocery store chain in western Pennsylvania, the former president took money from his wallet to help a woman checking out with her three sons.
'Here,' Trump said while taking out a Benjamin and handing it to a store patron checking out.
'It's going to go down a little bit,' he said of her grocery bill that day. 'It just went down $100.'
'We'll do that for you for the White House, alright?' he said, asking for the mother-of-three's vote.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13883893/donald-trump-pennsylvania-rally-mom-grocery-store.html
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There's nothing wrong with Trump paying for the customer's groceries. The legal question is whether it was an inducement for her vote in November.
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