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Is it wrong for foreign leaders to try to influence American elections? Hillary didn't think so.

On March 13, 2016, during the primary season, Hillary Clinton (along with Bernie Sanders) did a town hall in which she was asked — by a man whose one concern was defeating Donald Trump — to "share with us three specific points of your anti-Trump game plan."

I won't bother — at this late date — to explain why her answer did not amount to "three specific points" or an "anti-Trump game plan." I just want to highlight the last thing she said, which I ran across yesterday as I was researching the question of why it's considered bad for foreign leaders to attempt to influence our election. There's been a lot of news lately about Russians buying Facebook ads — simply speaking to us with an intent to influence the election — and I'm puzzling over whether that matters.

At the end of her answer, after some talk about how her campaign is "inclusive" and she has "pretty thick skin," she said she had a lot of arguments against Trump but she wasn't going to "spill the beans" about what they were:

But one argument that I am uniquely qualified to bring, because of my service as Secretary of State is what his presidency would mean to our country and our standing in the world. I am already receiving messages from leaders -- I'm having foreign leaders ask if they can endorse me to stop Donald Trump.

(APPLAUSE)

I mean, this is up to Americans, thank you very much, but I get what you're saying.

The moderator, Jake Tapper, asked "And can you tell to tell us who?" She said:

Well, some have done it publicly, actually. The Italian Prime Minister, for example.

Tapper asked, "How about the ones that have done it privately?"

CLINTON: No, Jake.

(LAUGHTER)

CLINTON: We're holding that in reserve too.

Hillary was proud of her support among foreign leaders, held it out as a reason to choose her as the Democratic Party candidate, and offered to use it to persuade Americans to vote for her in the general election. Was this wrong? It sounded bad to me at the time. I said:

Do Americans want the foreign-endorsed candidate? We're seeing Trump tarred as xenophobic, and meanwhile Hillary touts herself as the choice of foreign leaders. This deserves a closer look, and I expect some lampooning from Trump.

I didn't think it was a good argument. I thought it could be very easily flipped and used against her. But I don't remember anybody at the time was saying it's outrageous for foreign leaders to attempt to make their preferences felt by American voters.

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Here's the Federal Elections Commission's page "about the rules governing foreign nationals’ participation in U.S. elections" (noting that "the Commission held that a foreign national could attend, speak at campaign events for a federal candidate, and solicit contributions to the campaign").

On the question of independent ads paid for by foreign nationals, there's an issue of requiring disclosure. Consider "WHY FACEBOOK WILL STRUGGLE TO REGULATE POLITICAL ADS" (Wired):

On [September 21, 2017]... Mark Zuckerberg announced new transparency measures that would require political advertisers on Facebook to disclose who’s paying for their ads and publicly catalog different ad variations they target at Facebook users. Members of Congress, meanwhile, are mulling a bill that would require such disclosures.  These would be unprecedented moves, setting new standards for digital political ads. But they likely wouldn't prevent abuses....

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