[yesthatjallen]

Jim Hines doesn't like the term, 'quid pro quo' because it's an old Latin term that confuses people.

He wants to change the narrative to 'extortion'.

Meet the Press Tweet

[circlecity]

"Himes also said extortion doesn't require a "you give me this and I give you that" deal."

It most certainly does.

[Alberta's Child]

This is the kind of jackass who probably thinks you can file murder charges even if the alleged victim is alive and perfectly healthy.

[DarthVader]

He is going to be arrested too. The more they immerse themselves into this false narrative the deeper into trouble they go.

[McBuff]

These F’ers cling on and promote the language of the Shiffty parody as if it was what Trump had really said. OUTRAGEOUS LIARS!!

[JJ_Folderol]

I wish somebody would explain that diplomacy is entirely quid pro quo, extortion, and bribery on a national rather than individual level.

[48th SPS Crusader]

and what we’re dealing with here is corruption, abuse of power

Well that part is correct. The problem for the Dems is those charges belong on them and not on the President.

[lee martell]

There is some truth to what he’s saying about using Latin, but the majority of Dems are not going to listen to him.
They don’t want to have to explain or breakdown why they want to impeach. They would even prefer using this sort of nebulous phrase, one that is not fully clear to the average citizen.

They don’t care what the term really implies.
According to them, the term now means what they want it to mean.

[GSWarrior]

It’s complicated so we need the Crowned Heads of government to interpret what is happening for us unwoke folks.

[Political Junkie Too]

They want to move away from "quid pro quo" to "bribery" because "bribery" is specifically mentioned in the Constitution as impeachable ("Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors").

To get there, they have to make the common uncommon; they have to turn the normal quid pro quo of foreign aid policy into criminal bribery.

-PJ

[dfwgator]

"If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken."

[fhayek]

Democrats. They are so immersed in the whole welfare concept, that they probably really DO think that money that we give to foreign governments should have absolutely no strings attached. Foreign aid derives solely from the goodness of the hearts of the American taxpayer, and that we should not expect that the foreign country do anything in return that furthers American interests. Rooting out corrupt elements that pocket American money?? How can you be so obtuse??

What do they think a foreign policy is for?

[GaryCrow]

The corruption here is the fact that Joe Biden used his position as Vice President to get his lowlife son a no-show $50K a month job in return for favors.

Nobody in the media seems to want to talk about that though, evidently we’re supposed to believe that Trump wanting it investigated is worse than the Biden’s pay for play scheme.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Because it wasn’t.

[Brilliant]

He’s right. We should refer to Bidens actions as bribery.

[PGR88]

Just say “ORANGE MAN BAD!” so average leftists can understand it.

[bigbob]

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

[gloryblaze]

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

[qaz123]

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

[Jim Noble]

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.

[Pollster1]

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.