An explicit quid pro quo? No. But conservatives argued - properly so - that when Obama mused aloud about siccing the IRS on political opponents or prejudged that Hillary had done nothing indictable, he didn't have to be 100% explicit for it to be bad. Apply the same logic here.
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I mean, we all learned in school that Henry II didn't have to say explicitly, "kill that meddlesome priest, please."
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There are times when you acknowledge that you made an argument & lost it (I think the standard for impeachment is not what I wanted it to be in 1998), but if you just abandon your standards every time Democrats treat them with contempt, you will shortly have no standards at all. https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1176878342835965952 …
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"This should not result in impeachment" is a reasonable argument. "This was overhyped" is a reasonable argument. "Democrats also did awful things for which they should answer" is a reasonable argument. "There's nothing wrong with this picture" is not a reasonable argument.
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The specifically overhyped part of this is that Trump never talks about U.S. aid at all. He spends much more of the call talking about Biden, investigations & Rudy. But that doesn't get him in the clear given the "I would like you to do us a favor though" when Zelensky raises it.
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But the second problem here is the president asking a foreign head of state to cooperate with his personal lawyer on an investigation. That's extremely out of the ordinary, & there's a reason it's out of the ordinary.
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Ron Coleman
Traditionally (i.e., pre-Obama/Biden), we would ask other countries to cooperate in *our* investigations, but it would be much more unusual for the president of the United States to ask a foreign government to investigate a U.S. citizen.https://twitter.com/RonColeman/status/1176881368099360769 …
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Ron ColemanVerified account @RonColemanReplying to @baseballcrankHow is it a quid pro quo to ask a foreign government to investigate potential wrongdoing? Or is that off the table if the subject of the investigation is a relative of the other party's most powerful members? If so, that's a hell of a license for corruption.15 replies 10 retweets 48 likesShow this thread -
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Obama asked Ukraine to investigate Manafort in 2016.
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Except I don’t remember your condemnation then or anyone else’s, for that matter.
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