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Intelligence Democrat: Stop using 'quid pro quo' to describe Trump allegations
The Hill ^ | 11 10 2019 | Rebecca Klar

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
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To: JJ_Folderol

yep! and slavery is STILL legal, and is practiced to this day. We call it JAIL.


21 posted on 11/10/2019 9:07:12 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: yesthatjallen

All we are dealing with here are people who don’t think Trump should be President.


22 posted on 11/10/2019 9:12:14 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Quid pro quo. Another one bites the dust, just like “collusion.” So it’s off to the races with the next one.


23 posted on 11/10/2019 9:12:53 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: yesthatjallen

How did giving Ukraine taxpayer money, that soetero wouldn’t give them so he could please Putin, endanger US national security?


24 posted on 11/10/2019 9:14:05 AM PST by qaz123
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To: JJ_Folderol

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.


25 posted on 11/10/2019 9:16:05 AM PST by qaz123
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


26 posted on 11/10/2019 9:19:51 AM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: yesthatjallen
ex·tor·tion
/ikˈstôrSH(ə)n/
noun:
the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.

Nope. Even in the worst far-left interpretation, what actually happened is nowhere near the definition of extortion.

27 posted on 11/10/2019 9:20:01 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: yesthatjallen

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?


28 posted on 11/10/2019 9:20:14 AM PST by seowulf
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To: yesthatjallen
"...because it's complicated not working..." FIFY.
29 posted on 11/10/2019 9:21:37 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: DarthVader
NO DEMOCRAT WILL BE ARRESTED!

Democrats are LAW-LESS because Republicans are BALL-LESS!

30 posted on 11/10/2019 9:24:03 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: gibsonguy

“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.


31 posted on 11/10/2019 9:26:32 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't don't tell anyone.)
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To: Ann Archy

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!!


32 posted on 11/10/2019 9:30:12 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: DarthVader

WOWIE!! You need to put down the coffee.


33 posted on 11/10/2019 9:37:32 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

No it’s called a Marine Corps rebuke of thick headedness.


34 posted on 11/10/2019 9:39:23 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


35 posted on 11/10/2019 9:54:51 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: yesthatjallen

Still, there is a much bigger crime there. Billions of taxpayer money disappeared in Ukraine. Even Repubs seem hesitant to bring this up.


36 posted on 11/10/2019 9:57:02 AM PST by marron
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To: gibsonguy
Jim Hines doesn’t like the term, ‘quid pro quo’ because the transcript proves there wasn’t one.

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. .

37 posted on 11/10/2019 9:58:41 AM PST by Mark17 (Dad of Air Force Officer in pilot training. US Air Force aircraft, DO fly faster than US Army tanks)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


38 posted on 11/10/2019 10:13:44 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Maris Crane

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.


39 posted on 11/10/2019 10:23:31 AM PST by matt04
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To: yesthatjallen
Intelligence Democrat

OXYMORON ALERT !!!

40 posted on 11/10/2019 10:43:57 AM PST by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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