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Growing number of Republican senators consider acknowledging Trump’s quid pro quo on Ukraine

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Growing number of Republican senators consider acknowledging Trump’s quid pro quo on Ukraine | The Independent

A growing number of Senate Republicans are ready to acknowledge that President Donald Trump used US military aid as leverage to force Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his family as the president repeatedly denies a quid pro quo.

In this shift in strategy to defend Mr Trump, these Republicans are insisting that the president's action was not illegal and does not rise to the level of an impeachable offence as the Democratic-led House moves forward with the open phase of its probe.

But the shift among Senate Republicans could complicate the message coming from Mr Trump as he furiously fights the claim that he had withheld US aid from Ukraine to pressure it to dig up dirt on a political rival, even as an increasing number of Republicans wonder how long they can continue to argue that no quid pro quo was at play in the matter.

The pivot was the main topic during a private senate GOP lunch on Wednesday, according to multiple people familiar with the session who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the meeting. Senator John Neely Kennedy argued that there may have been a quid pro quo but said that the US government often attaches conditions to foreign aid and that nothing was amiss in Mr Trump's doing so in the case of aid to Ukraine, these individuals said.
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Next talking point: "it wasn't that bad"
 
tacomancer said:
Next talking point: "it wasn't that bad"
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Yup.

I will not be surprised if they end up saying "ok, AND it is something he could be impeached for", followed by an explanation of how we shouldn't do it anyway because it will imperil democracy in some fashion.
 
Mr Person said:
Yup.

I will not be surprised if they end up saying "ok, AND it is something he could be impeached for", followed by an explanation of how we shouldn't do it anyway because it will imperil democracy in some fashion.
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The stock market would go into the toilet.....
 
I have to admit, I'm enjoying watching the republicans running around in the box they created for themselves.

As any non trump supporter knows, facts mean absolutely nothing to the right in their defense of this president.

They will continue to come up with the most baseless unfounded 'facts' to support their reality. Trump can do no wrong.
 
The president thought the Bidens had committed a crime. He asked the Ukrainians to help investigate it. Sounds like Trump is enforcing the law.
 
It is safe to say that Republicans have moved their ideology to allow Trump to get away with something that no Democrat would ever politically be allowed to do. In this case the ‘quid pro quo’ was all about what could help Trump, and had little to nothing to do with the US or the Ukraine.

It is called being a member of a cult, and it allows today’s Republicans to go along with what Trump did.
 
Well then, just what are the Democrats going to do about it? Answer: Inconsequential whining.

Rexedgar said:
And then: “whatcha gonna do about it?”
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swing_voter said:
The president thought the Bidens had committed a crime. He asked the Ukrainians to help investigate it. Sounds like Trump is enforcing the law.
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If Trump thought that an American had broken an American law, why didn't he ask American law enforcement to investigate it?
 
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