Word of the day on CNN...

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

Extortion

Finally

[MyOwnPeace]

1. At last!!!!!!!!

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, I'm thinking dems should go the illegal route with Red Don

[dewsgirl]

3. It's about damned time.

[Jarqui]

4. As it should be

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12633314

[ffr]

5. Extortion, bribery, mobster tactics

tRump's white uneducated voters need to quit voting. They're fucking up our system of government. Or we need an I.Q. test, that if you struggle to know which end of a pencil you write from, you may not qualify to vote for someone like yourself to be president.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

15. A lost of them are dumb as toast, but

I think it's more that they are just brainwashed by RW media into believing the Dems are evil, so nothing Rs do can be as bad. I know some RWers who are not stupid people, at least not in the ways we normally judge intelligence.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. For the love of God, was that so f'ing hard? Next up: RICO/ Tax Evasion. Can you say that?

We got Al Capone here MSM. Michael Cohen told the world as much. Wake up!

[gratuitous]

9. Saying it is one thing

Getting public opinion behind it is something else. I wish things had moved along with greater alacrity as well, but I think that if the incriminating evidence and testimony had just been dumped on the American people in a big steaming pile, it would have been child's play for Trump and his evil minions to wave it away as fake.

By bringing this along step by laborious step, the public has been slowly brought to the mindset that there is a criminal enterprise running the country. The exit routes and escape hatches have been covered and sealed, and there's no place for many of them to go. Sonderland's "clarification" today of his previous testimony is proof to me that administration figures are seeing the trap, some of them for the first time.

[Evolve Dammit]

23. I sincerely hope that you are correct. I took the "clarification" as a really good sign. Thanks.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. Wow, I just cynically posted, thanking Mother Jones for using the right word.

Now CNN is? GOOD.

[0rganism]

8. it's a big step, but we all know the word they're tip-toeing around

"Treason"
when they finally come out and say it, i'll know we're on the road to recovery

[crickets]

21. +1

[LiberalBrooke]

10. Yes finally.

[safeinOhio]

11. No quid pro quo

Ok quid pro quo, but no extortion.

[lagomorph777]

19. OK, extortion, but extortion is perfectly OK.

We do it all the time.

[BigmanPigman]

12. Second word for the day "bribery".

[warmfeet]

13. Impeach the fucker!

Convict the fucker!

Remove the fucker from office!

Imprision the fucker!

[tblue37]

14. I also like "shakedown," for its Mafia implications . nt

[CousinIT]

16. Also heard on Morning Joe this morning...

..Extortion, bribery.

Sentiment was that House didn't want to call it that because they want to stick with "abuse of power" - that's what Nixon's impeachment cited.

[LuvNewcastle]

17. I've got another word.

Espionage

[crickets]

22. That one too! nt

[lagomorph777]

18. About effing time. Not "squid pro quo," not "bribery," but EXTORTION dammit!

Although I do understand that "bribery" is spelled out in the Constitution as impeachable, in the public mind (and in reality) extortion is a far worse crime.

[lark]

20. MSNBC certainly got the message as well.

I've probably heard that word used by 5-6 different people on the 2 shows I watched (well, on and off) Morning Schmoe and Nicole Wallace's. More please! Also need to hear bribery, cheating on next election, as these are also true and simple.