Graham’s Latest Talking Point: Trump Admin Is Too Inept To Pull Off Quid Pro Quo

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of President Trump’s staunchest defenders on the impeachment inquiry, has unleashed a new round of spin to avoid calling a spade a spade.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1260665

Even inept people commit crimes, asshole. Being inept is not a defense, jackass.

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“The whole process is a joke. The whole idea that there’s a quid pro quo based on somebody changing their testimony presuming there was … This is a political vendetta. … What I can tell you about the Trump policy toward Ukraine. It was incoherent. It depends on who you talk to; they seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo.”

More than one thing can be incoherent.

Just sayin’.

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Feinting with damned praise.

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Trump Admin Is Too Inept To Pull Off Quid Pro Quo

Oh we know that already sweetheart. That’s why they got caught.

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That’s what Mueller said!

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They only didn’t pull it off because Ukraine was refusing to give them what they want, and then they got caught.

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Wait…Lindsey’s defense is that Spankee’s too dumb to ask for a quid pro quo???

Huh.

Can we impeach him for terminal stupidity? (I mean Graham Cracker here…)

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Quid pro quo isn’t necessary in this case, but even if it was, an incompetent attempt is just as impeachable as a successful “this for that.”

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Their defense is going to be that Donnie and his minions were too inept and stupid to have had corrupt intent in using duly appropriated security funds to force the Ukrainians to interfere in the 2020 election to benefit Trump personally. That’s a hard row to hoe when they spent two years living with the Mueller investigation into illegal requests and coordination with foreign nationals to interfere with the 2016 election.

Even Don Jr. can’t claim to be stupid enough that he didn’t know bribing or blackmailing the Ukrainians was illegal.

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Hmmm. Defending the administration on the basis of the incompetence of the administration. Slick.

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“Sick” not “slick.”

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Graham’s Latest Talking Point: Trump Admin Is Too Inept To Pull Off Quid Pro Quo

But Lindseyloo; They. Still. Tried.

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Lawyer for mugger: Your honor my client is not guilty because when he pulled out his gun to get money from that person, the person ran away and my client kept missing him when he was trying to shoot him and then ran away when he heard police sirens. Since he failed to actually mug the person then no crime was committed right?

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Lindsey Graham, from John McCain’s “wingman” to Trump’s Mini-me.

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“Too Inept To Pull Off Quid Pro Quo.”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/332308211321425920

“I have a gub. Apt natural.”

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And it is a brilliant reelection campaign strategy - too inept to vote out…

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Graham also told reporters that he had no intention of reading the transcript of Gordon Sondland’s testimony released Tuesday

Why should Lindseyloo sully his beautiful, clean mind?

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No, but the senate has a procdure for removing a senator (I’ll wait in Tahiti).

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