Wow! #TraitorTrump essentially just confessed!

[Roland99]

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False stories are being reported that a few Republican Senators are saying that President Trump may have done a quid pro quo, but it doesn’t matter, there is nothing wrong with that, it is not an impeachable event. Perhaps so, but read the transcript, there is no quid pro quo!

[Shrike47]

1. That 's not what I read here.

[brush]

2. Me either. He's still denying what the testimony of several witnesses corroborated.

There was a quid pro quo

[Beartracks]

3. The lack of the actual words "quid pro quo" doesn't mean none happened. Trump...

...Trump really believes Americans are stupid.

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[LakeArenal]

4. No he's just stupid.

[SergeStorms]

14. And the vast majority.....

of his supporters. There are a smattering of those who aren't totally brain dead who're just in it for the money.

[calimary]

18. Well, there IS his 40 percent-or-so fan-base.

They certainly are.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. Who in their right fucking mind refers to themselves in the third person ?

[Skittles]

7. they don't

psychopaths do though

[crazytown]

12. just ask John Barron

[Ms. Toad]

8. Ummmm . . . no.

He's not admitting quid pro quo - he is reporting the trial balloon strategy of a few senators who are suggesting they acknowledge quid pro quo.

He is expressly denying it.

[dweller]

9. perhaps so?

✌🏼

[djacq]

10. Normalizing Extortion.

Where in our Constitution does it say that it's okay to use the levers of our government to extort for personal interest?

am I missing something here?

[SergeStorms]

16. More bribery than extortion, I believe.

Trump was not asking for money from the Ukraine, he had the money and wasn't giving it up until they agreed to publicly announce investigations into Joe and Hunter Biden for his own nefarious purposes. The old "this, for that", which is quid pro quo in anyone's language.

[Shoonra]

11. It doesn't have to be a quid pro quo

It is not necessary that Trump couched his requested favor from Ukraine as a quid pro quo.

It is enough that (1) he withheld military aid to an ally contrary to the bipartisan will of Congress, and that (b) he solicited/received a "thing of value" - namely useful secretive campaign information - from a foreign source for his election campaign. And (a) doesn't even have to involve the same foreign country as (b).

We also have his violation of the emoluments prohibition, for example collecting his very substantial hotel/resort prices in taxpayer money from federal officials and employees, and openly encouraging foreign dignitaries to become paying guests at his hotel. It would be different if he provided them all with a special discount rate.

Now frankly, when the President of the US of A makes a request of a favor from a foreign leader it doesn't have to be couched in quid pro quo language; if the US President - the man who provides American largess and can make all sorts of decisions affecting that country - asks a favor, it works pretty much as a command ---- very unlike the reaction if it were you or I asking the favor.

[Marcuse]

13. The Republicans are simply out of phase with each other.

Phase I: “He didn’t do it.”
Phase II: “He could have done it, if he had wanted.“
Phase III: “He did it. He’ll do it again. Get over it.”

[calimary]

19. Indeed.

[Kablooie]

15. Soon it will be, "of course there was quid pro quo, read the transcript"

But it's normal and there's nothing wrong with it.

and all his toadies that have been screaming 'there's no quid pro quo!' will nod their heads and repeat, "Of course there was. It's normal and there's nothing wrong with it. "

[amywalk]

17. That's not what it said, but I wish it had.