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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I shouldn’t find fault with CT.
We lost so much, and guess from what...REDISTRICTING.
Tell me how asleep our voters have to be to allow that.
I remember thinking DeLauro was the weirdest...in an ugly way...person to be elected in the entire history of our country. She only got worse.
How do you know a CT Congresscritter is lying?
Their lips are moving!
Disgrace is too favorable a description of our useless delegation.
In my working life I actually had to speak to DiLauro once—she called to initiate a complaint.
She screamed incoherently for five straight minutes.
She is the most obnoxious and disgusting human being I have ever interacted with in my long life.
I believe it.
Her soul is as ugly as her wardrobe.
And I can’t think of a worse simile.
Himes is probably confused by many “...old Latin terms...”
For example, the “logo” for Harvard (Himes’ college) is “VERITAS”.
Does Himes even know what “VERITAS” means?
Or even worse, does he even know what “TRUTH” means?
I have Comrade Courtney (feel free to steal that phrase). Outside of Storrs/UConn and the Groton area with the sub base/EB he pretends doesn’t exist unless he can get a nice photo op an scurry away.
in a way that damaged American national security,”
HOW SO? The claim is there, but what’s their definition of ‘damage’?? And HOW does their definition fit the fact that while Congress knashes their teeth over a 4 month vetting delay by the President, it is Congress itself that is holding up hundreds of million of ‘aid’ to Ukraine by tabling the defense bill? And, btw, where is the congressional tracking of the hundreds of millions we’ve already given Ukraine that have somehow disappeared? Doesn’t money that disappears down a giant corrupt hole of a country that isn’t an ally affect our ‘national security’???
“Himes also said extortion doesn’t require a “you give me this and I give you that” deal.”
It most certainly does.
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