Pelosi signals Ukraine allegations don't need quid pro quo to be wrong

[riversedge]

Source: The Hill





By Cristina Marcos - 09/24/19 03:11 PM EDT


Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that the transcript of President Trump's call with Ukraine's leader doesn't need to show a "quid pro quo" in withholding military aid in order for the president's actions to be considered wrong.

"If the president brings up, he wants them to investigate something of his political opponent, that is self-evident that it is not right. We don't ask foreign governments to help us in our elections," Pelosi said at the Atlantic Festival. "There is no requirement there be a quid pro quo in the conversation."

Pelosi said the allegations, if true, would be "wrong."

Despite a follow-up question from interviewer Jeffrey Goldberg, Pelosi declined to specifically say if they would be impeachable.

Without offering specifics, Pelosi noted that there are other subjects that are under investigation as potentially impeachable offenses. But she said that the latest controversy, that Trump reportedly pressed the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential 2020 rival, "is one is the most understandable by the public.".....................................

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[thesquanderer]

1. re: "is one is the most understandable by the public."

I hope we're not setting a standard that a president can do any illegal or unethical thing he wants, as long as it's complicated and convoluted enough that it would not be easily understood by the public, making impeachment too risky.