Lieu trolls Trump with ‘warning’ to foreign powers on office door

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) is using a new sign posted outside his Capitol Hill office to swipe at President Trump for his recent comments about accepting political dirt on his opponents from a foreign entity.

The California congressman, a frequent critic of Trump, tweeted a photo of the new sign, which reads: “If you are a foreign power and you try something shady, we’ll report you to the FBI.”

{mosads}The jab comes in response to Trump’s comments earlier this week that he wasn’t sure he’d call the FBI if a foreign power offered damaging information on a political opponent. 

We just posted this warning sign outside my Capitol Hill office. pic.twitter.com/FT3f7EJqCW

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 14, 2019 

“I think maybe you do both,” Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos when asked whether he would alert the FBI, or listen if Russia, China or another foreign government reached out to his campaign with intelligence on an opponent.

“I think you might want to listen. There’s nothing wrong with listening,” Trump said in the interview. “It’s not an interference. They have information. I think I’d take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI.”

The question comes after special counsel Robert Mueller‘s final report, released earlier this year, detailed numerous efforts by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election. As part of his probe, Mueller investigated Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer who had promised damaging information on the president’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Among those who have criticized Trump’s comment to Stephanopoulos is the chair of the Federal Election Commission, who said Thursday that not reporting such an incident to the FBI is illegal.

“Let me make something 100 percent clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election,” Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub said.