To say that Democrats are changing the crime Trump is being charged with is doubly wrong, as 'quid pro quo” is not and never was the crime
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images In recent days, Democrats have begun describing President Trump’s demands that Ukraine discredit his domestic opponents as “bribery.” Conservative media has excitedly seized on the new terminological emphasis as proof that the substantive case against his conduct has fallen apart.
This is the kind of sharp analytic insight Ratcliffe might have brought to the post of director of National Intelligence, had his candidacy not been tragically sunk by a combination of Republican concerns and his own résumé inflation. Trump himself quickly picked up on this terminology. “No quid pro quo, there was nothing,” he told reporters the next day. Republicans began repeating “no quid pro quo,” as their major talking point. The purpose of this line was to draw a defensible position, conceding that Trump had asked for investigations but denying he had tied them to any favorable actions in response.
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