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kentuck

(115,646 posts) Wed Aug 11, 2021, 11:20 PM Aug 2021

Is it extortion? [View all]

To threaten to fire someone under you, if they do not follow your orders to lie for them?

(Especially if it threatens the existence of our democracy)

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Is it extortion? [View all] kentuck Aug 2021 OP

the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats. elleng Aug 2021 #1

Whatever it's called, it's deplorable as is asking an election official to find Hoyt Aug 2021 #2

I doubt that meets the legal definition of extortion left-of-center2012 Aug 2021 #3

Sounds like he wanted to swap the promise of a job for a public lie? kentuck Aug 2021 #4

Try googling the definition of extortion n/t left-of-center2012 Aug 2021 #5

This is the definition I found: kentuck Aug 2021 #7

Can you detail what you're discussing? Sympthsical Aug 2021 #6

Just discussing the definition of "extortion" in general... kentuck Aug 2021 #8

It wasn't extortion. Political appointments are different things. Sympthsical Aug 2021 #9

Good point. kentuck Aug 2021 #10

Politics drive investigations all the time Sympthsical Aug 2021 #11