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Mitt Romney responds to Trump saying he’d take political help from a foreign government: ‘It simply strikes at the heart of our democracy'

Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney said Thursday that it would be “wrong” and “antithetical to our democratic principles” for a presidential candidate to take information from a foreign country trying to interfere with an American election.

President Donald Trump said he might do just that if offered in the 2020 cycle and that maybe he'd contact the FBI if he thought there was “something wrong” with doing so.

It’s not an interference, they have information — I think I’d take it,” Trump told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “If I thought there was something wrong, I’d go maybe to the FBI — if I thought there was something wrong.