{"id":327799,"date":"2019-11-06T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=327799"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:48:13","slug":"quid-pro-quo-is-out-bribery-and-extortion-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/11\/06\/quid-pro-quo-is-out-bribery-and-extortion-are-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Quid Pro Quo Is Out, Bribery and Extortion Are In"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Audio sound bite number 4, just to show you. Cookie<\/a> had this on the sound bite roster that she sent to me. I always get a rough copy of it a half hour before the program. Audio sound bite number 4. What did I just tell you? Democrats have dropped this quid pro quo angle, and they have replaced that now with the president having committed extortion and bribery. And we put together a montage to illustrate that from yesterday, last night, and this morning.<\/p>\n

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GLENN KIRSCHNER: Take the term quid pro quo, ball it up and throw it in the trash, and let\u2019s call this what it is, it\u2019s bribery.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: Does this amount to extortion?<\/p>\n

ERIC SWALWELL: The president was leading an extortion scheme.<\/p>\n

LEON PANETTA: The clear definition of bribery.<\/p>\n

EUGENE ROBINSON: They know extortion when they see it.<\/p>\n

ARI MELBER: There was a bribery plot.<\/p>\n

JILL WINE-BANKS: There was definitely extortion.<\/p>\n

DANA BASH: Whether or not there really was a bribery.<\/p>\n

ALI VELSHI: It\u2019s bribery.<\/p>\n

GERRY CONNOLLY: It\u2019s pretty clear that there was an explicit extortion.<\/p>\n

JOHN GARAMENDI: We keep using the word quid pro quo, but the accurate word here is bribery and extortion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t it amazing how these things happen, these montages? They get a fax, somebody gets the walking orders or the marching orders and they go out and they all start speaking on cue. So now it\u2019s not a quid pro quo. Now, you know what\u2019s interesting about this to me? There have been a lot of people, and I should say people on our side, who have said, \u201cYou know what the president needs to do? The president just needs to acknowledge there was a quid pro quo and say it\u2019s not impeachable. It\u2019s the only way to deal with this!\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what some people are saying. I, of course, reject it \u2019cause it accepts the premise, which I don\u2019t do. I refuse to accept any premise the media launches with, I refuse to accept it until I\u2019ve looked at it. There\u2019s no knee-jerk reaction from me to believe anything they do because intelligence guided by experience is don\u2019t believe \u2019em.<\/p>\n

So when our people, some of our people, say, \u201cYou know what?\u201d Somebody even said, \u201cYou know what the answer to this is? The president should just apologize.\u201d A Never Trumper said that. \u201cIf the president would just apologize, he could end this.\u201d Right. So people on our side saying the president\u2019s got to acknowledge quid pro quo, then say it\u2019s not impeachable because we do quid pro quos in foreign policy all the time. We withhold aid for all kinds of reasons. We tie the issuance of foreign aid to all kinds of conditions, which is true, and it\u2019s a quid pro quo.<\/p>\n

But quid pro quo in this scenario does not mean anything but crime. That\u2019s why they want the president to agree to it. They want him to agree that he might have committed a crime, but it\u2019s not an impeachable crime. In my view that would be a very grave mistake because I don\u2019t think you give these people anything, because giving them anything is not the way to get them to go away. They don\u2019t go away. You can\u2019t give \u2019em enough. They\u2019re never happy.<\/p>\n

Totally agree with \u2019em on something and they\u2019re a still not happy and want more. They\u2019re never happy no matter what is the bottom line. Why anybody wants to hang with these people I\u2019ll never know. They\u2019re never happy, they never laugh, they never smile. I can\u2019t understand what it is that\u2019s attractive about these people, but obviously something is. The deranged must be drawn to other deranged people. There must be some invisible bond there that we can\u2019t see.<\/p>\n

So now, all of a sudden…? By the way, why has quid pro quo gone away? Why are they gonna broom that, do you think?\u00a0 ‘Cause transcript was released, folks, and there isn\u2019t a quid pro quo in it!\u00a0 That\u2019s why, and that\u2019s why Vindman is not gonna be one of the first witnesses, because that was his angle. (impression) “I was so disturbed by that call.\u00a0 I was so distressed.\u00a0 The president was demanding a quid pro quo.”\u00a0 Well, they\u2019re not going the quid pro quo route anymore.<\/p>\n

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So they\u2019re not gonna call Vindman. The fact that they\u2019re not calling him among the first two is all the evidence you need that the quid pro quo thing has been abandoned.\u00a0 But it\u2019s been replaced, as you just heard, by “bribery” and “extortion.”\u00a0 And, by the way, “bribery” is a keyword because it actually appears in the impeachment clause in the Constitution.\u00a0 “High crimes and misdemeanors, bribery,” blah, blah, blah.\u00a0 So they\u2019re gonna say here (sniveling), “It\u2019s worse than a quid pro quo.<\/p>\n

“The president was bribing! He was bribing the president of Ukraine. ‘You better dig up dirt, you\u2019d better make it up on Biden and his stupid kid or I\u2019m not gonna give you money.'” He was bribing him, is what they\u2019re gonna try to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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