Name:   architect - Subject:   [USC02]52 USC 30121 (a)(2) Date:   10/18/2019 4:51:27 PM (updated 10/18/2019 4:57:24 PM)

which reads: 

"it shall be unlawful for a person to solicit, accept, or receive any contribution or donation of money or any other thing of value from a foreign national."

there are numerous court and election law decisions that have made it clear that "anything", including information, that has a value vis a vis an election is prohibited...period! If you were running for the local school board and you accepted information from a local US citizen that your opponent had been caught smoking pot in the high school boiler room in 1974 that would be potential of value to your campaign and it would be legal if somewhat beside the point for 2019.  Now if that information came from an illegal immigrant who was a citizen Mexico it would not be legal.  Therefore, I am pretty sure that if Donald Trump solicited negative info about an an opponent past or present or future from a Ukraine citizen he was breaking the law referenced above.  Please also note that the law does not even mention one way or the other whether there is any payment for the "thing of value".

For anybody that is willing to take off their blinders and throw away their talking points and look at the reality of the event it is pretty cut and dried.  It can be argued that what Trump did does not rise to the impeachment level of "crimes and misdemeanors" and I just might agree with you that it did not...but the sob broke the damn law...period!!