Posted on 11/10/2019 8:46:46 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the focus of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump needs to shift away from the use of "quid pro quo" to describe Trump's alleged behavior.
"They’ve got to get off the quid pro quo thing, because it's complicated, they've already attested to the fact that it occurred, and what we're dealing with here is corruption, abuse of power in a way that damaged American national security," Himes said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Himes told host Chuck Todd he has two problems with the term.
"... It is probably best not to use Latin words to explain it."
"Number one, when you're trying to persuade the American people of something that is really pretty simple, which is the that the president acted criminally and extorted in the way a mob boss would extort somebody, a vulnerable foreign country, it's probably best not to use Latin words to explain it," he said.
Himes also said extortion doesn't require a "you give me this and I give you that" deal.
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yep! and slavery is STILL legal, and is practiced to this day. We call it JAIL.
All we are dealing with here are people who don’t think Trump should be President.
Quid pro quo. Another one bites the dust, just like “collusion.” So it’s off to the races with the next one.
How did giving Ukraine taxpayer money, that soetero wouldn’t give them so he could please Putin, endanger US national security?
How right you are and that thing they call, Diplomatic Immunity, is the perfect example. You don’t lock up my guy, we won’t lock up yours.
Even when they do some eff’d up things.
Much of the relationships between nations would constitute extortion in the domestic context.
You would have to show me where in the statutes covering extortion that diplomatic exchanges were covered and made criminal.
Nope. Even in the worst far-left interpretation, what actually happened is nowhere near the definition of extortion.
I’m not sure us dumb, ole hicks know what extortion means either.
Extortion...idn’t that when you break loose a nut you had tightened down with a tort wrench?
Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!
“Jim Hines doesn’t like the term, ‘quid pro quo’ because the transcript proves there wasn’t one.”
I suspect it’s more like the polling didn’t come in the way they hoped. That’s how they always operate, after all.
GO FLY A KITE!! YOU ARE NOT CONNECTED NOR DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON. WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IS NOT GOP DEPENDENT!!
WOWIE!! You need to put down the coffee.
No it’s called a Marine Corps rebuke of thick headedness.
It certainly does require something, you Putz.
You pay me money and I’ll be quiet.
You pay me money and I won’t expose what you have done.
You pay me money and I won’t kill your family.
You pay me money and I won’t kill you.
Still, there is a much bigger crime there. Billions of taxpayer money disappeared in Ukraine. Even Repubs seem hesitant to bring this up.
Since the rats 🐀 are about a scandal a week, I wonder what they are dreaming for next week? Maybe it’s the 3 gorges dam sprung a leak. Impeach. .
They can’t prove wrongdoing and their case is already taking on water. This impeachment farce is tantamount to rearranging the chairs on the decks of the Titanic.
It isn’t going well for the Democrats.
As a CT Resident, I can tell you he is one of the dumber elected representatives we have in DC. Rosa DeLauro is probably the dumbest with Jim Home is coming in a close second.
OXYMORON ALERT !!!
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