Wednesday, November 06, 2019

It's a Defense AND an Excuse!


Is it just me, or does this not make any sense at all?

“We have the fact that they didn’t know the aid was held up at the time of the call and Ukrainians took no action to get the aid released,” he said. “None of that has happened. It’s all based on what someone told someone.”

Just before Jim Jordan said that, he said this:

“If one witnesses says there’s no quid pro quo but multiple others say there is, what do you do with that?” the reporter wondered.

“We’ve got the transcript where there’s no quid pro quo,” Jordan replied, referring to a White House memo that Democrat believe shows a clear quid pro quo.

Jordan added: “We’ve got the two people on the call, President [Volodymyr] Zelensky and President Trump saying no quid pro quo.”

What someone told someone is that Trump wanted a favor from Zelezny; that's in the "transcript" Jordan is talking about.  And Trump says there was no quid pro quo, which is precisely "what someone told someone."

This postmodernism as a political argument is making my head spin, and I used to do that stuff for a living.  At least it's better than Lindsay's "Trump is too stupid to be crooked" defense.  Or this one:


Let me keep it as simple as Sen. Kennedy wants it to be:  legal means it's in the national interest, and is done in a manner that it could be placed on a billboard, if necessary.  Illegal is when it is done in the political interests of the President (why else does he care about what Joe Biden got up to years ago in Ukraine?) and is so improper it inflames almost everyone who heard the call, or heard about it, and caused the counsel for the NSA to put it on a secure server so nothing about it could leak.  (And if would have worked, too, if not for that meddling whistleblower!).

Simple enough for you, Senator?
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