More confirmation of the quid pro quo The witnesses Thursday confirmed -- for the umpteenth time -- there was a quid pro quo.
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Or head here for more on the key takeaways from Sondland's testimony: Quid pro quo -- He said, "Was there a "quid pro quo?
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"You asked what conversations did I have about a quid pro quo ... none because I didn't know there was a quid pro quo," Volker testified.
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"If this is about quid pro quo, there's no quid in the quid pro quo if Ukraine ultimately received the aid, which they did," he said.
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Will Hurd: A Ukraine quid pro quo would be "violation of the law" Rand Paul: Trump has "every right" to use quid pro quo with Ukraine
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No quid pro quo One line that Republicans have continually repeated is that there was no quid pro quo involved in Trump's call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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The offense itself changes depending on the day, ranging from a quid pro quo, to extortion, to bribery, to obstruction of justice, then back to quid pro quo.
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Daniel Goldman: No. HB: Then, there's the idea that because Donald Trump said there was no quid pro quo on a phone call, there was no quid pro quo.
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The first gallery, the most formal, is adorned with a series of seven golden wood blocks hung like paintings and titled "Quid Pro Quo I," "Quid Pro Quo II," etc.
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" Andrew Napolitano: "One would expect the president in September, after the whistleblower's allegations came out, after the president was accused of a quid pro quo, to say 'no quid pro quo.
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" Mr. Sondland testified: "Was there a quid pro quo?
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"The reality is, as much as there's a lot of focus on a quid pro quo, I just want to remind everyone, you do not need a quid pro quo," said Rep.
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He argues that the phone call had no explicit quid pro quo, both Presidents Trump and Zelensky deny any quid pro quo understanding existed, and the military aid ultimately flowed to Ukraine.
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But arguing about the meaning of quid pro quo and whether or not Trump demanded a quid pro quo is a distraction from the serious business of deciding whether to impeach a president.
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Without delivery of the dirt, there's no quid pro quo.
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I just don't see the quid pro quo at all.
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Ultimately, he too brought up the quid pro quo argument.
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Trump has repeatedly denied allegations of a quid pro quo.
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Then there is the matter of the quid pro quo.
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"Quid pro Quo" is an ancient phrase for a reason.
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The potential quid pro quo is as clear as day.
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A quid pro quo arrangement is, but that hasn't materialized.
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There was no quid pro quo, as you falsely suggest.
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KERNEN: SO YOU CAN'T JUST SAY, IT'S QUID PRO QUO?
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Therefore, no quid pro quo, it's a witch hunt, etc.
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That might be part of a quid pro quo case.
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There was an unspoken but widely understood quid pro quo.
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Quid pro quo is another Latinism that needs no translation.
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Which raises the question: What is a quid pro quo?
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The criminals never say, 'This is a quid pro quo.
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Yesterday, the fascist attempted quid pro quo extortion on Twitter.
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They all insisted that there was no quid pro quo.
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Does it matter if there was a quid pro quo.
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That's because multiple witnesses already confirmed the quid pro quo.
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No evidence emerged of a quid pro quo while Mrs.
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First, they denied that there was a quid pro quo.
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" Let's call this show "Law and Order: Quid Pro Quo.
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Can you clarify this issue of the quid pro quo?
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The quid pro quo for this funding must be reform.
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Trump has repeatedly denied any quid pro quo took place.
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Sondland confirmed a quid pro quo, among many other things.
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Aetna responded with a bold attempt at quid pro quo.
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Even though many read this as a quid pro quo.
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It doesn't really matter if there's a quid pro quo.
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" The law, according to McDonnell, "prohibits quid pro quo corruption.
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"No money was mentioned, no quid pro quo," Giuliani said.
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There may be a tacit quid pro quo at work.
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In his opening statement, Sondland injected a new wrinkle into the quid pro quo claim: that Trump's July 25 phone call with Zelensky itself was the product of a quid pro quo for investigations.
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Lawmakers spar over issue of quid pro quo A majority of Republicans fell in line with the White House's argument that the call summary did not provide proof of an explicit quid pro quo.
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But such a quid pro quo would severely damage US interests.
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Trump has repeatedly denied that it was a quid pro quo.
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But the White House proposal offers no such quid pro quo.
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There was no quid pro quo, the president did nothing wrong.
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"It points to quid pro quo," the GOP source told CNN.
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Some financial analysts say a quid pro quo would make sense.
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Mulvaney has since denied that there was a quid pro quo.
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Trump emphatically told him no quid pro quo, the source said.
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The "quid pro quo" requirement for corruption convictions is notoriously minimal.
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WOODRUFF: You have said that there's no quid pro quo involved.
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Foreign relations could not be conducted without the quid pro quo.
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They make it unmistakably clear what the quid pro quo was.
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So you&aposve got it right there, the quid pro quo.
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But, State insists, it wasn't a straight-up quid pro quo.
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Democrats continued to focus on the Ukraine quid pro quo issue.
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Their own testimony contradicts the Dems false quid pro quo narrative.
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They seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo.
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Their own testimony contradicts the Dems false quid pro quo narrative.
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Let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo.
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Sondland confirms that President Trump said no quid pro quo. pic.twitter.
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Sondland to confirm quid pro quo in opening statement 28500 a.m.
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Trump himself has consistently denied there was any quid pro quo.
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"There's no sense of a quid pro quo," Ms. Leive said.
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You have said that there is no quid pro quo involved.
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These days, "quid pro quo" corruption is pretty rare, Fischer emphasized.
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The alleged quid pro quo efforts unfolded after she left Kyiv.
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So there might be an opening for a quid pro quo.
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Instead of Quid Pro Quo Joe, America needs President Donald Trump.
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How does a quid pro quo play out in Trump world?
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"He said there was no quid pro quo whatsoever," said Rep.
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Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) that there was a quid pro quo.
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"He said there's a quid pro quo," Rooney said of Mulvaney.
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Not dear leader POTUS — He's busy "No quid pro quo" tweeting!
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In short, Sondland confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo.
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Therefore, according to Trump's argument, a quid pro quo couldn't exist.
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"In conclusion, no quid pro quo — " before Sondland steps in again.
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Prosecutors, however, argue that the gifts were a quid pro quo.
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"No quid pro quo," McCarthy told VICE News in the Capitol.
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"And there was never any quid pro quo," Trump later added.
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This is the quid pro quo we hear so much about.
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Trump now faces impeachment over his own alleged quid pro quo.
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"The quid pro quo is in the President's words," Democratic Rep.
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He is also expected to contradict the president's claims denying a quid pro quo and acknowledge that Trump's efforts did, in fact, represent a quid pro quo "but not a corrupt one," according to The Post.
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The transcript of the phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president does not state a quid pro quo, and the only two other direct conversations on the record have Trump denying a quid pro quo.
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It's a classic classic quid pro quo conspiracy that is...not true.
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No corruption or quid pro quo was even alleged in my case.
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Sondland, echoing Trump, had asserted there was no such quid pro quo.
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What you're describing is a quid pro quo, a reporter told Mulvaney.
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"There was no quid pro quo," said White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.
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This Ukraine quid pro quo wasn't just a single reckless phone call.
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Sondland said Trump had told him there was no quid pro quo.
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This is, contrary to Ratcliffe's claim, a very clear quid pro quo.
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" [narrator voice]: The whistleblower complaint doesn't contain the words "quid pro quo.
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It cut against the White House's denials of a quid pro quo.
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But what did happen was there&aposs basically quid pro quo corruption.
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Strange denied there was any conflict of interest or quid pro quo.
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But Israel said it would observe only a limited quid pro quo.
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"There will be some kind of quid pro quo," Ms. Aufderheide said.
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Sondland changed his testimony to say there was a quid pro quo.
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The White House itself briefly appeared to acknowledge a quid pro quo.
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Indian medical ethics regulations also prohibit quid pro quo, Dr. Mehta said.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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Murray just wants a quid pro quo for his support of Trump.
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He did not admit to a "quid pro quo" specifically over Mrs.
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Either you think the president did quid pro quo or you don't.
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"No quid pro quo in this call in terms of the President."
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Is there room for a quid pro quo in all of this?
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They keep saying, "no quid pro quo," as if that exonerates Trump.
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The "quid-pro-quo" that Schiff and many others allege, never happened.
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Johnson asked Trump about reports of a quid pro quo with Zelensky.
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"What you just described is a quid pro quo," a reporter replied.
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He made this quid pro quo clear in his messages to Parnas.
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And upon further reflection seems like there was a quid pro quo.
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If that isn't a quid pro quo, I don't know what is.
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But "there was never any quid pro quo," he said on Tuesday.
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He denies there was any sort of promise or quid pro quo.
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Trump defenders have long claimed there was no such quid pro quo.
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Any quid pro quo is gravy, but is not necessary to prove.
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After all, Trump only wanted a corrupt quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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After 'quid pro quo' failed, focus groups told them to try 'bribery.
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There was a quid pro quo between the Americans and the Ukrainains.
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We've had Gordon Sondland's confirmation of a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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Perhaps so, but read the transcript, there is no quid pro quo.
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The question now is not whether there was a quid pro quo.
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He denies that there was any quid pro quo for sexual favors.
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I'm not concerned whether it is a quid pro quo or not.
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I said to Sondland, 'I want nothing, no quid pro quo, bro.
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Washington (CNN)Quid pro quo: A Latin term meaning something for something.
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There would have to be some sort of a quid pro quo.
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Both Democrat and Republican lawmakers asked about quid pro quo, but given that Reeker was in the dark about the push for a statement, he did not know anything about a potential quid pro quo, the source explained.
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If a US President demands a quid pro quo for legitimate economic or security concerns, then it's just good foreign policy; if it's for personal or political ends, then the quid pro quo was made with corrupt intent.
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Bonus: "Quid Pro Quo" Interview summaries from the FBI's investigation into Clinton's server released on Monday revealed that two FBI agents told investigators that a senior State Department official discussed a possible "quid pro quo" arrangement with the agency.
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The above scenario constitutes quid pro quo harassment, a form of sexual blackmail.
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To have a quid pro quo you have to exchange on both sides.
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There really can no longer be substantial doubt of a quid pro quo.
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None of that excuses Trump if he demanded quid pro quo on Ukraine.
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" When told that arrangement constituted quid pro quo, Mulvaney said, "Get over it.
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Trump's "no quid pro quo" line is no longer tenable after these texts.
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Experts aren't a fan of a quid-pro-quo approach to rewards, i.e.
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Here's an ugly term: Transactional journalism — also known as a quid pro quo.
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But none of the exchanges appeared to show a direct quid pro quo.
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Trump and his defenders have repeatedly denied any quid pro quo took place.
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Quid pro quo is a Latin term meaning a favor for a favor.
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But be careful not to view your contribution as a quid pro quo.
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It is not probable that written documents expressly evidence a quid pro quo.
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The White House has also fiercely denied claims of a quid pro quo.
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"There is no quid pro quo," Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC radio.
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Trump has repeatedly denied the aid was tied to a quid pro quo.
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Please stop using the Latin phrase "quid pro quo" regarding the impeachment inquiry.
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There is no need to prove collusion, conspiracy, solicitation, or quid pro quo.
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Taylor's testimony contradicts Trump's repeated denials that there was any quid pro quo.
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There had been no quid pro quo and sexual discrimination had not occurred.
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But their use of the phrase "quid pro quo" has been a constant.
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" But one of McCauley's colleagues characterized the conversation as a "quid pro quo.
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Mulvaney has since tried to deny that he confirmed a quid pro quo.
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Trump has also denied any quid pro quo in his interactions with Ukraine.
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"They seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo," he said.
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Was some kind of quid pro quo discussed in Mar a Lago Wednesday?
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Taylor's testimony contradicted Trump's repeated denials that there was any quid pro quo.
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There was a quid pro quo but that's a normal part of diplomacy.
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SCHIFF: Are you aware that quid pro quo literally means this for that?
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He confirmed the first quid pro quo (investigations for a White House meeting).
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" He denied he had given with the expectation of a "quid pro quo.
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It's widely believed that the abstentions were quid pro quo for this release.
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But it criminalizes the illicit quid pro quo agreement, not the presidential act.
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Trump has said on multiple occasions: No quid pro quo of any kind.
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They have in writing that there could have been a quid pro quo.
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In short, he attempted an extortionate quid pro quo, right out in public.
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In initial testimony, seven people confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo.
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" Reporter: "Let's be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo.
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In other words, another quid pro quo is what he was looking for.
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They also maintain Trump did not seek a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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That is: It confirms the quid pro quo of military aid for investigations.
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In other words, he believed there was a clearly proposed quid pro quo.
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There doesn't need to be a quid pro quo to be a crime.
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However, he has maintained no quid pro quo was discussed during their conversation.
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They also argue that the transcript shows there was no quid pro quo.
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"Whatever happened to quid pro quo, extortion and bribery?" said Representative John Ratcliffe.
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"It's not a quid pro quo where I owe him something," she said.
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"What we do know is there was definitely not quid-pro-quo," Rep.
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The president has "denied that there was any quid pro quo," Sullivan noted.
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Francis Rooney (R-Fla.), who called Mulvaney's quid-pro-quo comment a problem.
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On Friday, Trump denied any quid pro quo, but the texts suggest otherwise.
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And you don't need a quid pro quo—just abuse of power.85033.
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During Taylor's testimony, he laid out the elements of a quid pro quo.
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There's no quid pro quo here, and by conventional standards there's no scandal.
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Some impeachment witnesses have described what amounts to a quid pro quo related to the aid, but Trump and his aides have insisted there was no quid pro quo in his interactions with Ukraine and that he did nothing wrong.
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Amid all the current outcry for campaign finance and against crony capitalism, it seems that Democrats have entered into a pernicious quid pro quo of their own, a quid pro quo that has received but scant attention in the media.
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And when it came to that 'quid pro quo,' Sondland confirmed its existence unequivocally: " I know that members of this Committee have frequently framed these complicated issues in the form of a simple question: Was there a "quid pro quo?
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"The president was saying no quid pro quo, I was giving the guy the benefit of the doubt...and come to find out there was a clearer quid pro quo admitted to by his chief of staff," Rooney told Fox.
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" But now that news has broken about Bolton claiming to have first-hand knowledge of a quid pro quo based on a conversation he had with the president, Cruz has suddenly moved the goalposts to "quid pro quo doesn't matter.
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But this was no quid pro quo arrangement; Bobby did not return the favor.
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The DOJ defines "quid pro quo" expansively when deciding to indict other government officials.
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The President has vehemently denied there was any quid pro quo offered to Ukraine.
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The president has repeatedly denied any quid pro quo in his interactions with Ukraine.
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"No quid pro quo" was a big GOP talking point -- which Mulvaney just destroyed.
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But how is a quid pro quo relevant and necessary in the impeachment process?
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"Quid pro quo" is a Latin phrase meaning essentially "this for that" -- an exchange.
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Trump has repeatedly claimed there was "no quid pro quo" between him and Ukraine.
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The president and his allies have long denied any quid pro quo took place.
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Go deeper: EU ambassador told House panels Trump's Ukraine action was quid pro quo
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The very essence of politics is quid pro quo—Latin for "something for something".
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That's a clear quid pro quo — something the Trump administration has long denied existed.
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That is a quid pro quo that goes right up to the very top.
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A reporter told Mulvaney that what he just described was a quid pro quo.
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This could be part of the quid pro quo for a corporate tax cut.
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The testimony bolstered the House Democratic argument that there was a quid pro quo.
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"We will respond quid pro quo," Putin said Saturday, according to The Associated Press.
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Reuters was not immediately able to reach Zurich-based QUID PRO QUO for comment.
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Their investment within the city is the one side of the quid pro quo.
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Absolutely. But I never said there was a quid pro quo, because there isn't.
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"None of these gifts came with any hint of quid pro quo," he said.
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Trump has denied there was any quid pro quo in his interactions with Ukraine.
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Even if there was a quid pro quo, countries do that all the time.
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According to Morrison, Trump told Sondland he wasn't asking for a quid pro quo.
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Even if there was a quid pro quo, that's a normal part of diplomacy.
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And the best arguments they were making were there is no quid pro quo?
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The company does not engage in such quid pro quo arrangements, Mr. Allan said.
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At low levels, this kind of quid pro quo is unseemly but relatively harmless.
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Of course it's very possible there was no explicit quid pro quo at all.
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Texts of U.S. officials, released last week, further suggest an attempted quid pro quo.
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How is that not an establishment of an exchange, of a quid pro quo?
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Democrats have argued Trump's decision to delay Ukraine aid constituted a quid pro quo.
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Absolutely. But I never said there was a quid pro quo because there isn't.
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On Thursday, two witnesses described their intimate views of an attempted quid pro quo.
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Go deeper: Hurd says Ukraine quid pro quo would be "violation of the law"
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Do you know if [Pence] was aware that that was the quid pro quo?
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Whether there was a quid pro quo and "hard collusion," we'll have to see.
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Trump's legal team does not concede that the President attempted a quid pro quo.
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Go deeper: Ron Johnson says Sondland told him of possible Ukraine quid pro quo
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Jordan pointed to Volker saying he didn't believe there was any quid pro quo.
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There are plenty of better ways to say it than quid pro quo. Personally?
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Trump has said there was no quid-pro-quo agreement between himself and Zelensky.
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And I don't think that there was, in the end, any quid pro quo.
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And I don't think that there was, in the end, any quid pro quo.
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Why it matters: President Trump keeps denying the existence of a quid pro quo.
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There's probably a wine called Quid Pro Quo, but I haven't found it yet.
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But many in Peru saw the pardon as part of a quid pro quo.
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The appointment raises the obvious concern of a quid pro quo arrangement with Manafort.
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So, prove Trump knew about a quid pro quo, and you've proven corrupt intent.
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But Sondland still isn't saying the president ordered some sort of quid pro quo?
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However, it did not explicitly show a quid pro quo between the two leaders.
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Does this mean there was some quid pro quo between China and the Trump team?
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Kurt Volker handed over the text messages that showed concern about a quid pro quo.
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"They keep saying there's no quid pro quo," said Dent, who's now a CNN contributor.
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Trump hijacked the impeachment debate with 'no quid pro quo' I wrote about this Wednesday.
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Democrats have accused Trump of a quid pro quo and abusing his power of office.
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Even though there was no quid pro quo, I'm sure they would like to try.
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Mulvaney later denied saying what he said, and insisted there was no quid pro quo.
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Mo Brooks, have defended Trump for offering Zelensky a quid pro quo for military aid.
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Wow, interview released by Wikileakes shows "quid pro quo" in Crooked Hillary e-mail probe.
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But there's always been an uneasy quid pro quo between the creator and the muse.
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Many of them have expressed the same quid pro quo concerns voiced by the whistleblower.
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Yet, without a quid pro quo, it is hard to discern even a conceivable crime.
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Who's to say that quid pro quo, spoken or unspoken, isn't part of the equation?
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"This is a classic quid pro quo as defined in our bribery laws," Collins said.
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ICANN's quid pro quo with Governments The reason that ICANN went against our application for .
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Trump's known business dealings suggest the possibility of a quid pro quo with Russian interests.
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The Roberts Court has also defined quid pro quo corruption downward in criminal prosecutions, too.
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Prosecutors pointed to two benefits that showed the quid pro quo requirement for insider trading.
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That overt quid pro quo prompted the passage of the Foreign Service Act of 1980.
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Here's a small sample of the defenses Republicans trotted out:There was no quid pro quo.
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READ: A key impeachment witness just changed his story on the Ukraine quid pro quo.
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Clinton's emails, including a discussion of a possible "quid pro quo" to settle one disagreement.
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Here's a small sample of GOP talking points thus far:There was no quid pro quo.
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Yet that was only the first quid pro quo at the heart of this scandal.
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Actually, I doubt that there was anything so straightforward as a secret quid pro quo.
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The American people are going to hear a lot more about the quid pro quo.
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Mr. Trump has denied that he held up the aid as a quid pro quo.
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What people should understand is that criminal offense does not require a quid pro quo.
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The offers allegedly came with quid pro quo policy requests that would enrich Gupta businesses.
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Mulvaney since has claimed he did not say there was such a quid pro quo.
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The money may help establish the quid pro quo arrangement needed to prove illegal tipping.
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" A banker responded: "The client has communicated clearly the quid pro quo on this hire.
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Mr. Sondland had to revise his original testimony to acknowledge a quid pro quo negotiation.
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President Trump said nothing about a quid pro quo during the phone call in question.
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The quid pro quo is immaterial, part of a larger, necessary shift in strategic thinking.
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Sondland also directly communicated the quid pro quo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he testified.
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The ambassador also testified he communicated the quid pro quo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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"If he donates money as a quid pro quo — that's a problem," Mr. Mayer said.
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Bolton already revealed that Trump told him about the quid pro quo for military assistance.
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Mr. Fruman's lawyers and Mr. Giuliani have denied that any quid pro quo was offered.
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Democrats pledged to keep investigating to lay out the exact details of quid pro quo.
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They insisted, however, there was no evidence that any corrupt quid pro quo actually existed.
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Seeing policy as purely quid pro quo doesn't begin or end with the State Department.
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The Hill: Trump accuses Biden of "quid pro quo" hours after Mulvaney's White House remarks.
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First, in October he testified behind closed doors that there was no quid pro quo.
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On that side of Congress, Republicans are still insisting that no quid pro quo existed.
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It is now impossible for Republicans to claim that there was no quid pro quo.
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This record shows definitively no quid pro quo, which is the same as no bribery.
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But a quid pro quo need not be explicitly stated, only understood by both parties.
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Quid pro quo is in full effect when it comes to Trump and religious voters.
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Contrary to what top officials testified, there was no quid pro quo, House Republicans claim.
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He was saying "no quid pro quo" while simultaneously refining the requirements for the trade.
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The Journal did not confirm that any quid-pro-quo involving military aid was involved.
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If there was no quid pro quo in the arrangement, that's because it was unnecessary.
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But the only difference is I didn't do it...There was no quid pro quo.
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So if there was no quid pro quo, does that mean Clinton's conduct was aboveboard?
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Lawmakers also asked Sondland whether Trump's decision to withhold $400 million in aid was part of a quid pro quo arrangement for Ukrainian officials to investigate Biden, Sondland responded that he wasn't a lawyer but believed it was a quid pro quo, Luskin said.
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Sondland connected Trump to quid pro quo Sondland's dismissal comes nearly three months after he connected Trump directly to the "quid pro quo" trading Ukrainian investigations into Trump's political opponents for official actions, including a White House meeting, during damning testimony before House impeachment investigators.
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The Mueller investigation did not establish that there was any quid-pro-quo regarding Russian sanctions.
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Mark Meadows has tweeted several times that the idea there was quid pro quo is ridiculous.
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William Taylor's testimony Tuesday confirmed and documented Trump as chief provocateur of the quid pro quo.
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The idea of quid pro quo with regard to Trump and Ukraine emerged on his terms.
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"Nowhere in that phone call is there a quid pro quo," McCarthy told CNN's Manu Raju.
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Many Republicans in Congress have said that there was no quid pro quo on the call.
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Mulvaney later denied that he had admitted to the quid pro quo in a written statement.
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"Our attacks are not a step in a 'quid pro quo' arms race," the researchers wrote.
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Sondland has told lawmakers that the Trump-led pressure campaign amounted to a quid pro quo.
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Quid pro quo is the language of constitutional law and the courtroom, not the kitchen table.
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Quid pro quo is also about as evocative as it is unintelligible to the average voter.
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That raises questions about just how genuine Sondland's later response denying any quid pro quo was.
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"This is not a quid pro quo or anything else," Mnuchin told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.
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Netanyahu's lawyers say they were simply presents from long-time friends, with no quid pro quo.
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This would be followed by a north-south quid pro quo on structural reforms and investments.
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Mr. Erdogan apparently got his visit without any quid pro quo, and that is the problem.
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He also said he did not think there had been a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine.
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Trump has denied that his interactions with Ukraine amounted to anything like a quid pro quo.
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The White House said Sondland's testimony was further evidence that there was no quid pro quo.
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There is no mention of a quid pro quo, political dirt, withholding aid or campaign 2020.
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Trump and his team are desperate to argue that there was no quid pro quo arrangement.
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And then there was the alleged quid-pro-quo, something the Clintons know a lot about.
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"There is no quid pro quo," Raab told the BBC's "Today" radio program on July 29.
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"There is no quid pro quo," Raab told the BBC's "Today" radio program on Monday morning.
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The quid pro quoSeven people so far have confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo.
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The president has insisted that there was "no quid pro quo" in his interaction with Ukraine.
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They also said a quid pro quo wasn't the only type of conduct that merited impeachment.
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However, there is no precedent for a quid pro quo demand for testimony by a witness.
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The investigation focused on de Blasio's 2013 campaign fundraising practices, especially alleged quid pro quo contributions.
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But now the amnesia is fine again, and I remember: there was a quid pro quo.
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To recap: Trump officials' pressure on Ukraine to agree to a quid pro quo escalated gradually.
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Some say that politics is quid pro quo, but that hasn't been true for black voters.
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There's no guarantee of a quid-pro-quo between foreign governments and the new Trump administration.
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In civil law, sexual harassment is a context in which quid pro quo would come up.
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"It would be troubling if any president did a quid pro quo with tax dollars," Sen.
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Trump has maintained that there was no "quid pro quo" involved in his requests to Ukraine.
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Evidence of the corrupt exchange (or 'quid pro quo') was largely speculative and based on presumption.
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Among them is the quid-pro-quo diplomacy that comes with being honored at a gala.
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Ambassador Volker and Tim Morrison also said they saw no bribery, extortion or quid pro quo.
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" Hours later, he tried to reverse his statement, saying, "There was absolutely no quid pro quo.
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But Napolitano asserts that Trump's request for a "favor" is evidence of a quid pro quo.
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Starr did not say "no quid pro quo" in this appearance on Fox News that day.
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We usually go through some of the vocabulary of impeachment, 'Impeach' 'Whistleblower' 'Quid pro quo' etc.
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Besides, Mick Mulvaney and UK Ambassador Sondland both acknowledged that there was a quid pro quo.
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The quid pro quo description forced the debate into whether the president broke federal bribery law.
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Giuliani appears to have been orchestrating the potential quid pro quo that could get Trump impeached.
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For one, he previously testified that he wasn't aware of any "quid pro quo" with Ukraine.
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Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelenskiy.
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Republicans previously argued that there was no quid pro quo because Ukraine eventually got the money.
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It certainly seems like a quid pro quo was pretty clearly implied: You want your aid?
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He's admitted making the ask, he's just denying that there was a quid pro quo involved.
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Fox News declined to make the payment, calling it a "quid pro quo" in its statement.
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"He basically said it's a quid pro quo, which is not a good thing," Rooney said.
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Giving them intimate familiarity with the quid pro quo evidence might steady them against skeptical constituents.
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Here are five of the biggest takeaways from his statement to Congress: Taylor describes a quid pro quo Taylor's testimony undermined a key facet of the White House's defense amid the impeachment inquiry — that there was no quid pro quo involved in the administration's interactions with Ukraine.
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Mark Meadows (R-NC), another member of Trump's defense team, went from saying "there was definitely no quid pro quo" in early October to dismissing Bolton's account of the quid pro quo as "a desperate attempt [by Democrats] to resusciate their dying political dreams" on Monday.
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These are some of the places the term "quid pro quo" does not appear: The whistleblower complaint.
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Trump has insisted there was not a quid pro quo or other wrongdoing in his Ukraine dealings.
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Trump has denied wrongdoing and maintained that there was no quid pro quo involving withheld military aid.
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Roger (Kansas): To what extent did Mick Mulvaney's public comments undercut Trump's "no quid pro quo" defense?
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Taylor said that phone call is when Sondland told him Trump had requested the quid pro quo.
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"I've been in there 10 hours, I can assure you there's no quid pro quo," said Rep.
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That's the exact "quid pro quo" Trump and his allies have been arguing the administration didn't do.
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Trump has characterized the phone call as "perfect" and has said there was no quid pro quo.
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China is not about to act bilaterally on the Korea question without a quid pro quo elsewhere.
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He later contradicted himself, ruling out a quid pro quo in a statement from the White House.
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The notion that there was never a quid pro quo involved in Trump's mafioso moves against Ukraine?
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Sondland had not acknowledged a quid pro quo related to the security assistance in his initial testimony.
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Mulvaney later contradicted himself in astatement from the White House that ruled out a quid pro quo.
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But nobody who donates to No Labels does so with an expectation of a quid pro quo.
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The multiple other witnesses claiming a quid pro quo, he said, were either biased or ill-informed.
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If he was participating in a quid pro quo, he might have had reason to predate it.
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"From a criminal-law point of view, that looks like an implicit quid pro quo," Cotter said.
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He claimed that the Trump administration, including the president, was aware of quid pro quo in Ukraine.
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Survey respondents in southern Ukraine were the least supportive of agreeing to Trump's alleged quid pro quo.
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It was a quid pro quo or, as the Department of Justice later called it, a kickback.
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One of the groups, Free Press, accused the FCC of engaging in quid pro quo with Sinclair.
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" In that initial conversation, Mr. McCauley said, "it was a quid pro quo; I don't deny it.
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The evening began to take on the distinct feel of electioneering, of a quid pro quo exchange.
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President Donald Trump just survived an impeachment over demanding a quid pro quo from a foreign leader.
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It probably will never accept some type of quid pro quo, but nothing is lost in trying.
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Absent a clear quid pro quo, conflict of interest seems like a classic example of gray corruption.
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You can delete Mick Mulvaney's admission, at a White House news conference, of a quid pro quo.
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" During an interview with Time magazine, Zelensky was asked to "clarify this issue of quid pro quo.
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Most corruption cases are charged differently than Bridgegate was, because they typically involve quid pro quo arrangements.
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The bottom line, Sondland said, was that "everyone was in the loop" on the quid pro quo.
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But it's not clear that he was actually supposed to say there was a quid pro quo.
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Mr. Trump has denied this, repeating "no quid pro quo" as though it were a magical incantation.
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Democrats have asserted that Trump's request while withholding aid to Ukraine amounts to a quid pro quo.
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The evidence thus far revealed against Trump is damaging but not decisive on a quid pro quo.
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The president's team maintains that there was no quid pro quo, according to both Trump and Zelensky.
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Yesterday's Never Trumper witness could find NO Quid Pro Quo in the Transcript of the phone call.
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" Zelenskiy's answer: "Look, I never talked to the President from the position of a quid pro quo.
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Ted Cruz added quid pro quo isn't wrong without "corrupt intent," which he said Trump didn't have.
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I shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aid with Senator Ron Johnson.
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If Zelensky had complied, the quid pro quo plan would've nearly been complete — and Pompeo was aware.
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This section contains Trump's first ask of Zelensky—and also appears to contain a quid pro quo.
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Trump's defenders have also pointed to the lack of an explicit quid pro quo to exonerate him.
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"We certainly saw no quid pro quo," Johnson said to a swarm of reporters in the Capitol.
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" Enter Ferrell's Sondland, who tells reporters: "Keep the quid pro quo on the low-low, got it.
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"You could have an abuse of power without having bribery and a quid pro quo," Rocah said.
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Just don't ask her about the daily drip of Trump's alleged quid pro quo efforts on Ukraine.
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Vindman provided even more corroboration of a quid pro quo, bolstering Democrats' case to impeach the president.
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"There's nothing illegal about what's going on, as long as there's no quid pro quo," Dubnick said.
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The transcript lacks a critical element needed for impeachment, which is evidence of a quid pro quo.
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This exchange has provoked debates over whether Trump offered a quid pro quo to the Ukrainian president.
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Republicans pushed back against Democrats' claims, saying the transcript makes clear there was no quid pro quo.
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And, of course, there's "quid pro quo," the phrase at the center of the Trump impeachment trial.
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President Donald Trump has often insisted there was "no quid pro quo" between his administration and Ukraine.
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The effort to install an ally in office may be a quid pro quo for the departing president.
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No quid pro quo need exist for a foreign emolument to the American president to violate the Constitution.
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Modeling campaign contributions as typically driven by this sort of quid pro quo corruption strikes me as mistaken.
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"Reporters will use their language all the time (but) my language never said quid pro quo," Mulvaney said.
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I think the tough question critics have been asking is where is the quid pro quo in that?
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When all our students know the linguistic origin and meaning of quid pro quo they will survive nicely.
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Earlier that day, Trump had told Sondland he was not asking for a "quid pro quo" from Ukraine.
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In the end, the government struggled to produce a key witness or a sufficiently obvious quid pro quo.
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" He falsely claimed the whistleblower alleged he had made seven or eight mentions of a "quid pro quo.
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Sondland laying out the quid pro quo is by far the most important part of his prepared statement.
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As a quid pro quo, institutions have to be more obviously free of political influence than ever before.
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The alleged quid pro quo came just two weeks before the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky.
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"They are part of a quid pro quo," one ad tech exec told the Times at the time.
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The revelation directly undercut Trump and his lawyers' claims that there was no "quid pro quo" with Ukraine.
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He also insists any money he may have demanded was not a quid pro quo for his silence.
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Menendez and Melgen are accused of having a "quid pro quo" relationship going as far back as 2006.
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In other words, Trump wanted to establish a quid-pro-quo with Comey vis-a-vis his job.
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Mr. Trump replies "nothing" and insists that there is "no quid pro quo, " Mr. Sondland later says. SEPT.
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In our society we've reduced interactions to quid pro quo — if you do this then I'll do that.
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It depends on who you talk to; they seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo.
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Groups like Free Press have accused the FCC of engaging in a quid pro quo arrangement with Sinclair.
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Soft collusion would be cooperation between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign without an explicit quid pro quo.
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Sondland plans to testify Wednesday that there was a definite quid pro quo in Trump's demands to Ukraine.
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The only clear date is August 29, when an article in Politico discussed a possible quid pro quo.
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The only thing, and I guess Sondland stated with his testimony, is there was no quid pro quo.
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Still, the latest Dream Act offers no quid pro quo for regularizing the status of millions of people.
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Yesterday, Gordon Sondland said Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani explicitly sought a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine.
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The person also said they didn't believe Trump offered any "quid-pro-quo" for the Ukrainian president's cooperation.
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For Mr. Trump, it's all about the quid pro quo and the political message to his domestic audience.
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And as a part of that, you know, the classic quid pro quo has been the college education.
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There's of course no way to demonstrate a quid pro quo there, but the basic dynamics are clear.
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The gift itself was forbidden, but hardly uncommon in the quid-pro-quo relationship between jailer and jailed.
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The court may also rule on whether there were any quid-pro-quo dealings between Park and Lee.
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After a resulting furor, Mr. Mulvaney then sought to take back his comments, denying any quid pro quo.
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Then he backpedaled, issuing a statement that repeated Mr. Trump's claim there had been no quid pro quo.
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"Federal bribery prosecutions are the legal case in which quid pro quo comes up the most," he said.
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Mr. Johnson said he was alarmed and asked Mr. Trump if there was a quid pro quo involved.
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Nobody took it for granted, but it was not viewed as just another diplomatic quid pro quo either.
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He said the only way a quid pro quo could be impeachable is if it involves illegal conduct.
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For strong examples of actual quid pro quo, look no farther than the professional party politicians in Congress.
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McConnell's expectation of a judicial quid pro quo was always the price of admission to America's highest court.
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"He says exactly what President Zelensky said, exactly what President Trump said: No quid pro quo whatsoever," Rep.
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Trump has tweeted the phrase "no quid pro quo" more than a dozen times since the inquiry began.
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Some German officials voiced discomfort with the quid pro quo, and with Angela Merkel's endorsement of such deals.
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Fallout continued from the acting White House chief of staff's on-again, off-again quid pro quo admission.
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He has maintained that there was no "quid pro quo" tying the aid to his requests to Zelensky.
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"The president did not, as was first reported, offer a quid pro quo to the Ukrainians," Carlson wrote.
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He said, with no evidence, that there was such a quid pro quo in Biden's actions in Ukraine.
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" So Trump took out the part where Starr said, "Clearly in his opening statement, a quid pro quo.
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It doesn't matter if there was an explicit quid pro quo; Zelensky knew what Trump wanted from him.
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Republicans have largely stood behind the president, saying the conversation did not amount to a quid pro quo.
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The president's allies claim that because Trump ultimately released the aid, there was no actual quid pro quo.
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Taylor called that arrangement "crazy," though Sondland replied that Taylor was "incorrect" there was a quid pro quo.
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"Trump has maintained that there was no quid pro quo and that the July 25 call was "perfect.
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And now he remembers what amounts to a direct quid pro quo, although he still can't remember everything.
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The only thing -- and I guess Sondland has stayed with testimony that there was no quid pro quo.
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If he says he understood there to be a quid pro quo, then there likely was one. Period.
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Trump pushed US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland to claim there was no quid pro quo.
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That is, he admitted to being the messenger for the most scandalous version of the quid pro quo.
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Strictly speaking, we don't have a quid pro quo relationship, although it is not far from that either.
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He's already had to revise his private testimony and has effectively admitted there was a quid pro quo.
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"It's a quid pro quo -- oh, that's a bad word," he added, to hearty laughter in the chamber.
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Trump has said he did nothing wrong in the Ukraine matter and specifically denied any quid pro quo.
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Look for Republicans to argue that the witnesses testifying don't have direct evidence of any quid pro quo.
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"I can only tell you what I know," he said on CBS, again denying any quid pro quo.
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During a White House briefing Thursday, Mulvaney appeared to acknowledge a long-denied quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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As Taylor's concerns about a quid pro quo grew more explicit, Sondland sought to put him at ease.
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Democrats quickly pounced on Mulvaney's comments as proof of the White House's quid pro quo approach to Ukraine.
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But this person couldn't recall whether the Democrats specifically asked whether there had been a quid pro quo.
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The bottom line: The question isn't whether Senate Republicans believe there to have been a quid pro quo.
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He basically really debunked Sondland's version of events by making clear how explicit the quid pro quo was.
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Sondland claims they had a brief call in which Trump said he didn't want a quid pro quo.
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"Quid pro quo requires an articulated exchange," added Fred Werthiemer, president of the government watchdog group Democracy 21.
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It's unclear if there actually was a quid pro quo arrangement, but the charges could constitute bribery regardless.
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While some Senate Republicans have defended Trump's insistence that there was no quid pro quo, a growing number of GOP officials in the chamber are adopting the stance that what Trump did was a quid pro quo but that his actions weren't illegal and don't constitute impeachment, the Post reported.
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Chris Coons: No, in fact, I'll give Sheldon Whitehouse credit for saying in the cloak room, why on earth would we engage in that kind of a crazy quid pro quo where we trade a relevant witness for an irrelevant witness in the middle of a quid pro quo trial.
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In July 2017, Mueller said he was still investigating whether the payments were part of a quid-pro-quo.
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Part of the alleged quid-pro-quo would have included the planned sale of a 19% stake in Rosneft.
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Previously, the most damning account of a quid pro quo was offered by Bill Taylor, acting ambassador to Ukraine.
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He then attempted to claim that he did not admit to the quid pro quo a few hours later.
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Quid pro quo is a Latin term that means "something for something," as CNN's Veronica Stracqualursi wrote last month.
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Many GOP lawmakers defended Trump in the inquiry's early days by arguing that there was no quid pro quo.
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"So you have the Ukrainian president himself who said there was no quid pro quo or ask," she said.
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" Mulvaney's comments directly contradict one of Trump and his allies' core defenses to potential impeachment: "no quid pro quo.
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He has not been charged with a crime and has previously denied allegations of a quid pro quo deal.
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"Yesterday's Never Trumper witness could find NO Quid Pro Quo in the Transcript of the phone call," Trump said.
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This, Sondland is expected to say, "was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one," his representative said.
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Putting together what Sondland says: Once more for the people in the back: That is a quid pro quo.
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House Democrats allege it was a quid pro quo ordered by Trump in an impeachment-worthy abuse of power.
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Although there was never a quid pro quo, these allegations were nonetheless referred to the appropriate officials for review.
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They have no evidence of quid pro quo relationships, although they suggest murky conflicts of interest and unethical behavior.
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His case for a basic income justified it as a quid pro quo for the existence of private property.
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But two questions remain: did his team engage in a quid pro quo, and did the mayor endorse it?
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Vance denied in the report that the dropping of the investigation was a quid pro quo for the contributions.
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And yet none of the Kurdish fighters I met described the Raqqa campaign as a political quid pro quo.
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"The White House should stop saying there was no quid pro quo," the Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro recently said.
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Jordan didn't get to the substance of the amended testimony (underlined), where Sondland confirms quid pro quo. pic.twitter.com/YfRBBVanTf
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Trump has denied wrongdoing and said there was no quid pro quo, and Republicans have sought to defend him.
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Sondland already revised his closed-door testimony once before to describe what amounts to a quid pro quo scheme.
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Other Senate Republicans shared Graham's view that the motivation behind the quid pro quo should be the determining factor.
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Taylor described in detailed terms a quid pro quo arrangement that Trump and Republicans have denied ever took place.
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Tit-for-tat escalation would directly threaten the informal but oft-repeated quid pro quo that makes negotiations possible.
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Trump and his allies deny there was a "quid pro quo" arrangement during his discussions with the world leaders.
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He later revised his testimony to say that he did remember discussing a quid pro quo with Ukrainian officials.
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Taylor's closed-door testimony forced Sondland to amend his original testimony and admit a quid pro quo had occurred.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied a quid pro quo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over investigating the Bidens.
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Republicans turned on Sondland after he confirmed that the quid pro quo was carried out at Trump&aposs direction.
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Sondland alleged a "quid pro quo" exchange between Trump and Ukraine: military aid for an investigation of Joe Biden.
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House Democrats succeeded in presenting a compelling case that a quid pro quo was conveyed to various American players.
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In closed-door hearing earlier this month, Vindman confirmed that Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Zelensky.
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Only a small percentage, 12%, believe their president should reject such a quid pro quo and forego the aid.
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That is the landmine where corruption could potentially be demonstrated: Was there a quid pro quo for endorsements received?
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Given the ambiguities, the prosecution should have to prove a quid pro quo involving something consequential and objectively valuable.
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Clinton's emails should be considered classified, including a discussion of a possible "quid pro quo" to settle one dispute.
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"It was off the table; the quid pro quo was not even close to being considered," Mr. McCauley said.
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Democrats should use their oversight authority to investigate the possible quid pro quo nature of the Trump administration's policies.
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"It's not necessary for us to find evidence of a quid pro quo," Mr. Schiff said on Sept. 22.
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Since the start of the impeachment investigation, Mr. Trump has turned "no quid pro quo" into a rallying cry.
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"Quid pro quo is Latin for 'thing for thing,'" Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, said.
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Trump later concedes that he did, but denies there was a quid pro quo linked to military aid. Sept.
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Yesterday was all about building the case that there was a quid pro quo to benefit the president politically.
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He later acknowledged in his testimony that Trump had asked for "nothing" in terms of any quid pro quo.
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Carlson has begun defending Trump's quid pro quo on its "merits," arguing that it was in America's strategic interest.
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In fact, Starr noted that Sondland said in his opening statement that there was indeed a quid pro quo.
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We knew that the administration was lying through its teeth when it insisted there was no quid pro quo.
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Republicans have pointed to that statement as proof that the president was not looking for a quid pro quo.
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To hear him say it now, the quid pro quo revelation is old news and not a big deal.
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"They were all going around saying what the president said — that there wasn't a quid pro quo," Rooney said.
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Sondland confirmed that there was a quid pro quo asked of Ukraine in return for a White House visit.
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He then wrote back a seemingly scripted text to Taylor hours later saying there was no quid pro quo.
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Indeed, talking heads on cable news shows endlessly debate now whether there was a quid pro quo in play.
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The vast weight of the evidence -- supported by logic and common sense -- indicates Trump wanted a quid pro quo.
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Still, the question of whether a quid pro quo was presented to the Ukrainians is no longer in doubt.
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It appears in the conversation after a discussion of military aid, and reeks of a proposed quid pro quo.
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Trump has downplayed the significance of his July call with Zelensky and denied there was any quid pro quo.
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Almost everything we have heard in two weeks of witness testimony and documents has corroborated the quid pro quo.
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Ferrell acted as if he got the message: "Keep the quid pro quo on the low-low," he said.
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Gordon Sondland: Mr. Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelensky.
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The impeachment hearings have revealed what a key player he was in Trump's alleged quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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Trump has denied any quid pro quo but offered to release a transcript of his call with Ukraine's president.
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Trump has defended the call, saying it was not improper and that there was no quid pro quo involved.
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I don't see proof of a quid pro quo no matter what my presumptions, assumptions or bias might be.
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Even absent a quid pro quo, the Emoluments Clause bans payments to an American public official from foreign governments.
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Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelensky" and that "Mr.
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Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelensky," he said. "Mr.
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Mr. Volker has previously said he knew of no quid pro quo between the security aid and the investigations.
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Sondland was one of the few witnesses to initially cast doubt on the notion of a quid pro quo.
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Democrats and other critics have raised the possibility that there was a quid pro quo involved in the effort.
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His quid pro quo abuse of power, set out on Wednesday by Ambassador Gordon Sondland, is grounds for impeachment.
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With it, they say, they would have more evidence of quid pro quo on the part of the president.
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Essentially, he told lawmakers there was quid pro quo: military aid in exchange for an investigation into the Bidens.
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Essentially, he told lawmakers there was quid pro quo: military aid in exchange for an investigation into the Bidens.
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However, the note did not explicitly show a quid pro quo between the two leaders, giving traders some relief.
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"A rational juror could not find an explicit quid pro quo on the political contribution counts," Judge Walls wrote.
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When I later suggest to Darg that his donation could be seen as a quid pro quo, he's genuinely shocked.
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What&aposs degrading to Americans was BleachBit-ing subpoena emails or the quid pro quo corruption at the Clinton Foundation.
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In other words, a clear quid pro quo—signing a treaty after receiving a bribe, say—is a no-no.
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" Sondland later testifies that he called Trump before responding and that Trump told him there "is no quid pro quo.
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"It was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one," the person familiar with Sondland's testimony told the Post.
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Texas Rangers opened an investigation, interviewing Bonnen for four hours about what Sullivan alleged was a quid pro quo offer.
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The White House's central defense of Trump's conduct regarding Ukraine has been that there was no quid pro quo involved.
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But as Schweizer told NBC's Savannah Guthrie in April 2015, he had not direct evidence of a quid-pro-quo.
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Now, your questions: Bob (South Carolina): Bill Taylor seems to have confirmed there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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But still, it's a very clear quid pro quo and is said to be coming from the White House itself.
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He repeated there was no quid pro quo, but said he would continue asking foreign countries for help investigating corruption.
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In the opening scenes of "The Apprentice" Mr Trump explained the quid pro quo at the heart of the show.
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Nevertheless, officials insist the payment was not a "random" or a "quid pro quo" as some critics have deemed it.
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"This was an age-old and classic tale of quid-pro-quo corruption," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara told reporters.
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In a way, that's what Vinyl is about: the quid pro quo that drives the recording industry in the 1970s.
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Colonel Vindman has become at least the fourth person to suggest Mr Trump offered Mr Zelensky a quid pro quo.
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A number of top State Department officials have already testified to what they viewed as a clear quid pro quo.
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It wasn't a real quid pro quo because the Trump administration is too disorganized to pull off such a scheme.
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And he probably thought everyone was going to have his back and also say there was no quid pro quo.
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That said, it's possible that what happened still fell short of an overt quid pro quo between Kennedy and Trump.
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But there is strong skepticism among other Democrats that McConnell would have any interest in such a quid pro quo.
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Dr. Sudibyo Markus, who led Muhammadiyah's health department at the time, said there had never been any quid pro quo.
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Not only can abuse of power be impeachable, but a proven quid pro quo can qualify as such an abuse.
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If he asserts the Trump call was a quid pro quo, he'll alienate Trump, who may serve a second term.
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Mr. Sondland, for example, originally testified (in private) that he had no knowledge of a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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For instance, Mr. Sondland originally told impeachment investigators that he had no knowledge of a quid pro quo involving Ukraine.
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There can be a quid pro quo arrangement even without pressure, although the inherent pressure on Zelensky seems pretty obvious.
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Trump on Wednesday doubled down on his insistence that there was no quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukraine.
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The messages directly contradicted the president's claims that there was no quid pro quo involved in his interactions with Zelensky.
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Such a road map would be couched in terms of discrete steps, on a quid pro quo and verifiable basis.
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The Russian government announced on Thursday that it would respond quid pro quo to Washington's decision to expel its diplomats.
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President Trump and his allies have vigorously denied any notion of a quid pro quo since the impeachment inquiries began.
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Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, also gave noteworthy testimony by confirming a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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He also said there was an explicit quid pro quo linking the White House meeting Zelensky wanted with the investigations.
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If a quid pro quo was uttered in Washington but no Ukrainians heard it, did it make an impeachable sound?
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In a statement to the news agency, Trump's lawyer said that the donations were not "quid pro quo" for anything.
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This is not at all to suggest tenebrous conspiracies, hatched in back rooms and involving explicit quid pro quo exchanges.
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But it said that there was only one justification for restricting political spending: quid pro quo corruption akin to bribery.
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When is there enough evidence of a deal (a "quid pro quo" exchange) to show that the transaction is illegal.
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Republicans noted repeatedly that Trump never personally told Sondland what the terms of the quid pro quo needed to be.
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Indeed, Senate Republicans conceded publicly or in private conversations with me that the House had proved a quid pro quo.
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It wasn't that Thrush was offering young women a quid pro quo deal, such as sex in exchange for mentorship.
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More likely, these candidates had been offered something in exchange for their endorsements, or a "quid pro quo" in Latin.
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When the Fake News Media overturns the cutouts, you must repeatedly set down more-acceptable-sounding Quid Pro Quo cards.
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" The Justice Department did not respond to email messages on Thursday asking for an official definition of "quid pro quo.
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Taylor expressed concern to Sondland that Trump was engaging in a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine for personal political gain.
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"We know there was no quid pro quo on the call, we know that from the transcript," Mr. Purpura said.
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Their closed-door depositions before congressional committees last month provided a damning account of Trump's alleged quid pro quo request.
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Democrats called highly compelling witnesses who said they believed such a quid pro quo existed, but the record is conflicted.
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"Saudi Arabia is offering fellow OPEC+ members a quid pro quo: If you stop cheating, we'll curb production," Bloomberg reports.
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William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, said the Trump administration made repeated quid pro quo demands to Ukraine.
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Now, we are doing a close read of Trump's phone call to Zelensky — looking specifically for a quid pro quo.
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The Iranians may also take a quid pro quo action by attacking an American ambassador, defense attaché, or commercial interests.
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John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, have made the same shift from denying the quid pro quo to downplaying it. 3.
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He announced he planned to leave shortly after news broke of a whistleblower's complaint about the Ukraine quid pro quo.
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Why it's stunning: It's the first time an administration official has contradicted President Trump's denials of any quid pro quo.
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She also pointed out that Sondland did not directly tie Trump personally to the demand for a quid pro quo.
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Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelensky," said Sondland, adding: "Mr.
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Sondland destroyed once and for all the earliest presidential talking point that there was no quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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Right out of the gate, Sondland confirmed that, yes, a "quid pro quo" scheme existed and President Trump directed it.
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Supposedly, there was a quid pro quo — Putin would help Trump get elected and Trump would facilitate Putin's global ambitions.
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Last month, reports indicated that Morrison told Congress behind closed doors that there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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Trump and his supporters on Capitol Hill and at the White House have denied there was any quid pro quo.
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He said there was "not a scintilla of evidence" that Trump had engaged in a quid pro quo with Zelensky.
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He maintains there was no quid pro quo in his request to Zelensky to open an investigation into the Bidens.
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Asked by a reporter if there was a quid pro quo on Ukraine, Mulvaney appeared to confirm there was one.
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"I can only tell you what I know," Pence said on CBS, denying that there was any quid pro quo.
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Trump has denied any wrongdoing in conversations with the foreign leader, saying that there was no explicit quid pro quo.
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While Trump doesn't specifically use the words "quid pro quo," the ask -- and the context around it -- seems pretty straightforward.
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That's a clear quid pro quo: Look into my domestic political rival, and you can have your much-desired meeting.
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"The chain of events in Nhat's case suggests a possible quid pro quo exchange between Thailand and Vietnam," he said.
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What Mulvaney said ran counter to the argument Trump was advancing - that there was no "quid pro quo" with Ukraine.
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"It puts the whole quid pro quo to bed, but trades it for several other issues," one administration official said.
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Details: The memo claims there was no quid pro quo or anything inappropriate about the conversation between the two presidents.
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El esfuerzo por instalar a un aliado tan polémico en la presidencia puede ser un quid pro quo del presidente saliente.
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The acting chief of staff later tried to walk back his remarks, flatly denying that there was a quid pro quo.
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Democrats have seized on Taylor's testimony, saying it lays out a quid pro quo between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Mulvaney later walked his remarks back, saying there was no such quid pro quo in the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine.
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Strategy: Mr. Johnson is offering the opposition a quid pro quo: more time to debate, in exchange for the general election.
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Still, Mulvaney's press conference, in which he also admitted to a quid pro quo with Ukraine, didn't go over so well.
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Vindman believed the existence of a quid pro quo was clear during a July 10 meeting between American and Ukrainian officials.
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Trump said this showed that there was no quid pro quo between the delivery of the aid and politically-charged investigations.
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Gregory Meeks of New York said there was clear evidence of a quid pro quo manifested in Trump's pressure on Ukraine.
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But quid pro quo has nothing to do with other potential federal crimes including extortion and solicitation of foreign election aid.
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Mulvaney, for instance, made it clear there was a quid pro quo, and argued instead that it wasn't a big deal.
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Someone on the campaign could also be charged for promising some kind of quid pro quo in exchange for the hack.
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In Hollywood, this has meant a well-oiled quid-pro-quo relationship between an army of publicists and certain media outlets.
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The term she is looking for is "indecent proposals," creepy quid-pro-quo offers she resisted to the point of exasperation.
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" Asked about such transactions being a "quid pro quo," he told reporters: "We do that all the time with foreign policy.
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The confirmation of a quid pro quo - or favor for a favor - would bolster Democrats' arguments that Trump misused his office.
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Lee told lawmakers Samsung's contributions to the two foundations backing Park's initiatives were not made with any quid pro quo expected.
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Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a Clinton backer, maintained there's no evidence of a quid pro quo between State and the foundation.
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" When pressed on whether this was a "quid pro quo," he responded, "We do that all the time with foreign policy.
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Trump has denied there was a quid pro quo - or exchanging a favor for a favor - in his dealings with Ukraine.
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"Yesterday's Never Trumper witness could find NO Quid Pro Quo in the Transcript of the phone call," Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.
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"According to Mr. Morrison, President Trump told Ambassador Sondland that he was not asking for a quid pro quo," Taylor testified.
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White House aides have remained adamant that the president did nothing wrong and insisted there was no explicit quid pro quo.
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A key impeachment inquiry witness acknowledged delivering a quid pro quo message to Ukraine, in a major revision to his testimony.
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That's exactly the kind of quid pro quo smoking gun Democrats would take as proof of collusion between Trump and Putin.
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It was widely understood as an admission of a direct exchange — a "quid pro quo" — that Trump has denied took place.
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Morrison purportedly said that in the same exchange, Trump made the seemingly contradictory claim that there was no quid pro quo.
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" A quid pro quo — prohibited under anti-corruption laws — is the exchange of a thing of value for an "official act.
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It was explicit quid pro quo sexual harassment, which was basically, you sleep with me and I'll give you a promotion.
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Sondland's response: He read emails and texts to top Trump officials outlining specific details of the quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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A person familiar with the matter said they didn't believe Trump offered any "quid-pro-quo" for the Ukrainian president's cooperation.
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To us, this suggests that Trump's alleged quid pro quo hampers the US government's ability to exert its influence in Ukraine.
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Trump's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, also explicitly said there was a quid pro quo in public remarks to reporters.
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"The allegation of any kind of quid pro quo is inaccurate and does not align with the facts," Mr. Toner said.
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A vice president of the union said he saw a quid pro quo in a potential settlement with the opera star.
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In fact it seemed almost like quid pro quo between Manafort and the bank chairman, who was hoping for a job.
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His opposition to the Paris agreement smells like a quid pro quo for the gift of the presidency from Vladimir Putin.
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Mulvaney acknowledged in that presser Trump had sought a quid pro quo when it came to releasing military aid to Ukraine.
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There is no evidence that Cohen's efforts to suppress the photos were a quid pro quo for Falwell's vital political backing.
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Such quid pro quo behavior has figured prominently in the reports of sexual harassment and assault over the past several months.
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To be corrupt, the case had to include a well-defined quid pro quo involving an official act or government decision.
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" According to Graham, the transcript of Trump's telephone call with Zelensky "speaks for itself — no quid pro quo … a nothing burger.
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From the beginning, Trump and his allies rejected the notion that he sought a "quid pro quo" with the Ukrainian government.
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But later in his testimony, Sondland also shared that Trump had asked for "nothing" in terms of any quid pro quo.
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The poster argued that Trump had explicitly said he wants nothing from Ukraine and stated "no quid pro quo" multiple times.
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Furthermore, Democrats say, what Trump held out as leverage — a quid pro quo — was U.S. taxpayer-funded military aid to Ukraine.
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But then the answer he was looking for came: Even if there was a quid pro quo, it did not matter.
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He has denied any quid pro quo - a Latin term meaning a favor for a favor - in his dealings with Ukraine.
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Trump has insisted his call with Zelensky was proper, noting the partial transcript showed there was no explicit quid pro quo.
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"There has to be a quid pro quo, and there's none there," he said last week, according to the Union Leader.
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Days before the call, Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine, prompting questions about whether the exchange involved a quid pro quo.
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Liberal thought is that work, when it comes to a quid-pro-quo for government largesse, is a four-letter word.
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First, the committees began releasing transcripts of officials who testified they believed Trump demanded a political quid pro quo from Ukraine.
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But now it becomes totally clear that there was a stated quid pro quo from Sondland to a top Ukrainian official.
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So, whether it was coming from above, the Ukrainians had every reason to believe the quid pro quo was a fact.
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The quid pro quo -- announce an investigation into the Bidens in exchange for a White House meeting -- is now beyond doubt.
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Pence has insisted previously there was no "quid pro quo" and that Trump did nothing wrong in his dealings with Ukraine.
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" Ferrell, as Sondland, meanwhile contradicted those remarks, saying at one point that a "quid pro quo" was "on the low, low.
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Nunes is both a chief defender of Trump on the Intelligence Committee and a possible material witness to quid pro quo.
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Sondland also claimed that several top administration officials were aware of the quid pro quo with respect to negotiations with Ukraine.
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Inside these decks, there's a strict quid pro quo rule, whereby all users have to like and retweet fellow members' posts.
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Ambassador Sondland's testimony stated that President Trump said the Ukraine President should just do the right thing (No Quid Pro Quo).
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For an airtight case proving a "quid pro quo," though, it might come down to the word of an administrative assistant.
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"Get over it," he said from a White House podium, when asked if Trump had engaged in a quid pro quo.
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" Later, though, when he's asked "Are you aware that quid pro quo literally means this for that?" he says, "I am.
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"I feel comfortable saying he never mentioned 2020, quid pro quo, holding up aid, Joe Biden, his political rival," Conway said.
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This request came days after Trump withheld funds from Ukraine, prompting lawmakers to assert this was a quid pro quo deal.
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Runners up for word of the year were quid pro quo, impeach, crawdad, egregious, clemency, the, snitty, tergiversation, camp and exculpate.
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Trump administration officials like Sondland and Volker continued to communicate this quid pro quo to the Ukrainians through July and August.
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But he has denied there was a quid pro quo whereby the aid would be released if Ukraine investigated the Bidens.
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But after a partisan House vote last week opening up a public phase of the inquiry — and a parade of government officials who testified to Congress that there was a quid pro quo — some in Mr. Trump's party are testing out a new refrain: Even if a quid pro quo existed, it is not grounds for impeachment.
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He added to reporters Wednesday that Kurt VolkerKurt VolkerWhite House to add two aides to lead impeachment messaging Taylor testimony shows concern about Giuliani influence, 'irregular' foreign policy channel Graham calls Trump-Ukraine policy 'incoherent': Admin seems 'incapable of forming quid pro quo' MORE, the former special envoy to Ukraine, has denied that a quid pro quo took place.
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Read more: The notes on Trump's call with Ukraine's president hint at a quid pro quo over investigating Joe Biden's son"From a criminal law point of view, that looks like a quid pro quo," said Patrick Cotter, a longtime former federal prosecutor who was part of the team that convicted the Gambino crime family boss John Gotti.
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Out of all the House Intelligence Committee witnesses, European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland was the only person to speak directly to President Trump on the issue, testifying that Trump denied any quid pro quo and that his own presumption of a quid pro quo was connected to a White House meeting with the Ukrainian president and not the aid.
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In this case, there is quid pro quo except that Pyongyang is getting a summit with the president, which they've always wanted.
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Within hours of the White House releasing the transcript, a number of Senate Republicans were using the "no quid pro quo" line.
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Mulvaney later tried to walk back his comments, issuing a statement that there was no quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government.
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US envoy offered the 'why' in quid pro quo The uproar doesn't change much in the substance of the growing impeachment case.
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Atlantia has publicly scoffed at the idea, but sources say it stands ready if Rome signals a quid pro quo is possible.
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The dramatic news of John Bolton's tell-all book about Trump's Ukraine quid pro quo only whetted Americans' appetite to hear testimony.
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This week, a top American diplomat told impeachment investigators that the Trump administration had made repeated quid pro quo demands to Ukraine.
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White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney confessed to the quid pro quo in a head-exploding press briefing on October 17.
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On Tuesday, former Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor told the committees that there was, in fact, a quid pro quo on Ukraine.
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But just the appearance of the words "quid pro quo" was enough for both Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan to respond.
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" He said he could not speak to McCauley's recollection but insisted: "There was no quid pro quo, nor was there any bargaining.
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Buhl shared the letter with the activists who contacted her, part of a quid pro quo they'd agreed on from the outset.
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"There was no quid pro quo because there was no negotiation" with Trump over the decision to cancel the plant, Fields said.
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Furthermore, Painter warned that any conversations that mixed political talk with business talk could present concerns about a "quid pro quo" arrangement.
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It will be up to Trump, Tillerson, and General Mattis, if confirmed, to define what the Russian quid-pro-quo would be.
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"Although there was never a quid pro quo, these allegations were nonetheless referred to the appropriate officials for review," the agency said.
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But the lobbyists represent numerous industries, not just oil and gas, and the suggestion of a quid pro quo is shaky: Mrs.
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The Latin phrase "quid pro quo," which means "this for that," has no force in federal law and limited impact on Americans.
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For instance, they prompted Mr Sondland to amend his testimony and confirm that he too understood that a quid pro quo existed.
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"Even if there was a quid pro quo, which would not have been appropriate, it would not be an impeachable offense," Rep.
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A central figure in the investigation said he had personally delivered a quid pro quo message from the White House to Ukraine.
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But the QUID PRO QUO case is an example of the pitfall of investing in the booming but still-murky cryptocurrency world.
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Trump was withholding military aid from Ukraine at the time of the call, leading to allegations of an improper quid pro quo.
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At the same time, federal investigators have yet to formally allege hard collusion—an explicit quid pro quo between the two sides.
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With the other signatories still on board, Iran refrained from processing, provided the quid pro quo of sanctions relief was in place.
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And if so, was this a Trump quid pro quo for all the help the Kremlin had given Trump in the campaign?
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While Johnson isn't himself an impeachment witness, his statements attempting to defend the president have involved mention of the quid pro quo.
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It was Taylor's testimony that prompted Sondland to go back and reverse his initial assertion that there was no quid pro quo.
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Trump has denied wrongdoing, calling the phone call "perfect" and saying there was no quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukraine.
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If he doesn't say that the president set this condition, this quid pro quo, doesn't that blow a hole in your case?
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Republicans, meanwhile, said the call revealed no explicit threat or "quid pro quo" arrangement to withhold foreign aid unless Ukraine investigates Biden.
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Democratic lawmakers have seized on Mr. Mulvaney's on-camera admission of a quid pro quo, calling it tantamount to a televised confession.
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In his posthumous memoirs, Bork claimed that President Nixon offered him a quid pro quo of an appointment to the Supreme Court.
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"There was no explicit quid pro quo for the arrangements with the pastor," Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, told reporters in October.
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Clinton was part of a quid pro quo in which the Clinton Foundation received donations in exchange for supporting the deal. Mrs.
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"The only thing that would make a quid pro quo unlawful is if the quo were in some way illegal," Dershowitz said.
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In a a press conference, Mulvaney seemingly confirmed the quid pro quo that ignited impeachment of Trump, before walking back his comments.
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Mr. Trump's defense has also argued that there was no "quid pro quo" in his dealings with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
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It lacks any apparent 'quid pro quo' — a sense that Trump was offering something to Comey in exchange for dropping the investigation.
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That's the center of the now-infamous quid pro quo: Kyiv helps damage Trump's political opponent, and then Ukraine gets the money.
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Republicans are no longer arguing the "quid pro quo" on Ukraine, focusing instead on denying that it came from President Trump himself.
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Senior agents, who for years had been resistant to leaving the field for HQ tours, bristled at the offered quid pro quo.
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"There's too many hoops to jump through and too many institutions for it to be a simple quid pro quo," he said.
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Both men have said that during the call Trump told Sondland he sought "no quid pro quo" and wanted "nothing" from Ukraine.
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Because Mr. Zelensky had not announced any investigations, defenders of Mr. Trump have said that means there was no quid pro quo.
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Zelensky also rejected the notion there was a quid pro quo linking the security assistance to investigations into Trump&aposs political rivals.
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When asked about the missing piece of testimony directly tying Trump to ordering the quid pro quo, she said it doesn't matter.
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They say any references to a quid pro quo are conjecture and hearsay — including EU Ambassador and Trump donor Gordon Sondland's testimony.
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Trump declared during two direct conversations, with Republican Senator Ron Johnson and Ambassador Gordon Sondland, that there was no quid pro quo.
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Medieval rulers tried (and failed) to Christianize political gratitude, but Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Adam Smith rejected quid pro quo.
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Democrats claim that Mulvaney was a central player, contending he implemented the freeze and knows the truth about the quid pro quo.
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Days before the call, the president withheld aid to the country, prompting questions of whether the conversation implied a quid pro quo.
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Trump has maintained his innocence in the matter, calling the impeachment inquiry a "hoax" and insisting there was no quid pro quo.
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Legally speaking, there does not appear to be any promises or threats or any kind of quid pro quo on Trump's part.
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Such quid pro quo essentially subverts the proper functioning, at least with Stone, of both congressional oversight and the criminal justice system.
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Now the Hunter Biden-Ukraine issue is on everyone's radar AND we know that Democrats overstepped with their 'quid pro quo' accusation.
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"The allegations of a quid pro quo, basically today just blew a massive hole throughout the entirety of that argument," said Rep.
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Days before the call, the president withheld military aid to the country, prompting debate over whether there was quid pro quo involved.
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And when did "catch-and-kill" go from an ethically fraught quid-pro-quo with Hollywood celebrities to a political hit-job?
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But, perhaps most importantly, Republicans learning to love the quid pro quo illustrates how far they're willing to go to defend Trump.
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Mulvaney continued Sunday to deny he said there was any type of quid pro quo arrangement, in spite of his earlier words.
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You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like 'quid pro quo' and 'personal benefit.
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The big picture: Mulvaney's comments elicited widespread shock and claims that Trump's top aide had publicly admitted to a quid pro quo.
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Mulvaney's remarks were widely interpreted as contradicting Trump's claim there was "no quid pro quo" involved in the president's conversations with Ukraine.
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Sure, Chinese production started falling but it is doing so at least in part as a quid pro quo for government help.
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Impeachment inquiry In a stunning twist, a top US diplomat revised his testimony to confirm the existence of a quid pro quo.
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He used to say there was "no quid pro quo" and suggested that the whistleblower was a partisan working to undermine him.
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Fourth, as I testified previously, Mr. Giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelensky.
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What Mulvaney has said: In a now-infamous news conference, Mulvaney confirmed there was a quid pro quo but downplayed its significance.
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White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted publicly there was a quid pro quo (though he later walked it back).
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He also discusses the White House suspension of US aid, which Sondland suggests also became part of the overall quid pro quo.
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But she stood by the White House response that there was no quid pro quo between Trump and the former Soviet state.
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" Speaking to Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani handwaved the entire scandal, saying "there's no mention of military aid, there's no quid pro quo.
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The corresponding "influence in the performance of an official act" -- the quid pro quo -- is the delivery of foreign aid to Ukraine.
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Witnesses called by Democrats testified that Trump did demand a quid pro quo from Ukraine and that he was orchestrating the scheme.
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We never discussed any kind of pressure about a criminal case, we never discussed any kind of quid pro quo or pressure.
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Before the July 25 call, Ambassadors Sondland and Volker also relayed this quid pro quo to the Ukrainians, including to President Zelensky.
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This, Trump's critics argue, is quid pro quo and is Trump offering to purchase information potentially damaging to Democrats with taxpayer money.
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It's almost as if the company were proposing a quid pro quo: Give us the deal, and we'll give everyone these goodies!
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Sondland, however, had said previously he didn't understand until later that Trump had in fact sought a quid pro quo for aid.
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And a clear reading of the transcript shows that there was no quid pro quo in the president's call with President Zelensky.
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" Sondland responds five hours later that there is no quid pro quo, and suggests "we stop the back and forth by text.
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He has said there was no quid pro quo between the two issues and that there was nothing improper in his communications.
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Trump has also insisted there was no quid pro quo in his interactions with Ukraine, despite testimony from witnesses in the inquiry.
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Trump has said he was interested in rooting out corruption and that he did not expect nor request any quid pro quo.
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"I think it's important to understand what we don't have, and what we don't have is a quid pro quo,'" said Sekulow.
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The pardon has been widely seen as a quid pro quo between the two politicians, and it ignited large protests in Lima.
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The consequence of a quid pro quo relationship with men is misandry (and I don't mean a kitschy mug of male tears).
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Mulvaney walks back his remarks later that day, insisting there was no quid pro quo and accusing the media of misinterpreting his remarks.
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" "I fought with people on the air about 'Is there a quid-pro-quo?' and 'Does this rise to the level of impeachment?
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It is certainly true that "no quid pro quo" fits nicely as a slogan, even if it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.
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Bill Taylor, her successor as the top official in the embassy, suggested in text messages he saw something like a quid pro quo.
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"Mick Mulvaney today on national TV says yes, there was a quid pro quo essentially on the DNC conspiracy theory investigation," Lieu said.
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A lot of the testimony, I mean the quid pro quo like you mentioned is really at the heart of the entire inquiry.
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They also have argued that there could not be a quid pro quo if Kiev was not aware that the aid was withheld.
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The Clintonites assert there's simply no evidence of a quid pro quo, no evidence of favors being given by Clinton to foundation donors.
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In exchange, Kennedy allegedly offered a "quid pro quo": the State Department would allow the FBI to place agents in more countries overseas.
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The career diplomat's testimony is extremely devastating to Trump's case that he did nothing wrong and that there was no quid pro quo.
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Democrats seized on the comments, which undercut President Trump's insistence that there was no quid pro quo involved in withholding Ukrainian military assistance.
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After the USA boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics, quid pro quo, Russia skipped the 1984 Los Angeles Games, as did 14 other nations.
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A former spokesman for Mrs Clinton denied any quid pro quo, and multiple sources say she was not personally involved in the approval.
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Vindman said he believed there was a quid pro quo in place by July 10 after a meeting between American and Ukrainian officials.
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Quid Pro Quo by Willy Kautz is on view at El Cuarto de Maquinas (Colima 159, Roma Norte, Mexico City) through March 11.
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Gone are the days of walking into an office with a bag of cash and a demand for a quid pro quo vote.
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The quid pro quo for cheaper storage, though, is the loss of what the LME calls its "gold standard" of security and liquidity.
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The Times quoted CMS spokeswoman Jane Norris, after being asked about that claim, as denying Verma made any such quid pro quo suggestion.
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But even as Mr. Trump reiterated on Sunday that there was "not at all" a quid pro quo, Ms. Conway was less definitive.
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"We are not making a contingency, a quid pro quo," he told "Pod Save America," a podcast hosted by former Obama administration staffers.
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Sondland revised his earlier testimony, saying in the latest version that the president's dealings with Ukraine amounted to a clear quid pro quo.
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He later walked back his remarks by insisting that there was no quid pro quo and that the media had misconstrued his statements.
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The other is that there was no quid pro quo in withholding military aid to Ukraine, as Mr Trump himself has repeatedly asserted.
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Mr. Trump has denied a quid pro quo involving aid, and Mr. Zelensky has said he never felt pressured to pursue an investigation.
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There is no evidence, however, that Ukraine provided Trump with "dirt" on Biden — a necessary component of an alleged quid pro quo. Sept.
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But Sondland plans to tell Congress that he does not know whether Trump was being truthful when he denied the quid pro quo.
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Was it a quid pro quo involving the financier's former wife, Denise Rich, who had contributed truckloads of cash to various Clinton endeavors?
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If Morrison corroborates or expands on these accounts, Trump's "no quid pro quo" defense will most likely be left looking even more shaky.
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A central point of contention during president Trump&aposs impeachment hearing has revolved around whether or not a quid pro quo agreement occurred.
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That means there was less than two weeks between the Ukrainians raising an alleged quid pro quo and the release of the aid.
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Ted Cruz of Texas also said the call memo "reveals no illegal quid pro quo," and lambasted Democrats for fixating on the issue.
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Read: Bill Taylor's Testimony Paints a 'Damning' Picture of Trump's Ukraine Quid Pro Quo Taylor testified that Sondland had told him on Sept.
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"The jury in my case was instructed to infer a quid pro quo even though no favors were offered or exchanged," he wrote.
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At worst it's a publicly-played-out sleight-of-hand exchange to finalize a nefarious quid pro quo between Trump and the Russians.
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"Diplomatic recognition is no longer a quid-pro-quo for a deal on the naming of bishops as it once was," Giovagnoli said.
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After all, DramaAlert offers YouTubers a quid-pro-quo arrangement, because ultimately each of his videos serves as extra visibility for its subject.
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Lindsey Graham is refusing to look at new evidence of a quid pro quo involving President Donald Trump and military aid to Ukraine.
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Clinton was part of a quid pro quo in which the Clinton Foundation received large donations in exchange for support of the deal.
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Unwilling to enter in a direct quid pro quo with their users, the data titans must make do with whatever their users submit.
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While American authorities have acknowledged that Mr. Zambada met with federal agents, they have long denied there was any quid pro quo agreement.
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But, as many have argued in response, quid pro quo corruption is far too narrow a governmental interest to identify as constitutionally relevant.
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Trump's remarks reflected the charges levied against him of a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government to help in the 2020 election.
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Mr. Lazar was careful not to frame the request as a quid pro quo for new licenses, or as a form of censorship.
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Their cases involved a blizzard of abuses of power, betraying public trust, soliciting quid pro quo, fogging tax records and lying to investigators.
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" He said there could not have been a quid pro quo because "the money flowed without any connection whatsoever to the D.N.C. server.
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After all, if there was a quid pro quo but that's not impeachable, or even inappropriate, then Bolton's testimony might be considered moot.
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" Another official, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, responded that Trump had made clear there would be "no quid pro quo.
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"Mick Mulvaney today, on national TV, says, 'Yes, there was a quid pro quo, essentially, on the DNC conspiracy theory investigation,'" said Lieu.
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"The required quid pro quo contained (in the instructions)was too open-ended," Circuit Judge Richard Wesley wrote in an 84-page decision.
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In the early stages of the Trump impeachment investigation, he said that evidence of a quid pro quo would be cause for concern.
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They also said that Democrats had no direct evidence of the quid pro quo they allege at the heart of their impeachment case.
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Trump's quid pro quo attempt with Ukraine is of a piece with the corrupt practices ushered in by populists all around the world.
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This person did not believe Trump offered the Ukrainian president any quid pro quo for his cooperation on an investigation, the newspaper said.
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He also publicly admitted — then retracted — that there was a quid pro quo (a video clip that was played during the impeachment hearings).
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United States in 1992, an official "need not state the quid pro quo in express terms" for a crime to have been committed.
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"Out of 100 senators, zero believe you on the argument there is no quid pro quo," Cruz said he told the defense counsel.
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Trump has also denied a quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukraine, distancing himself from witnesses and casting doubt on their credibility.
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Democrats have portrayed this as a political quid pro quo to help to damage Trump's possible presidential contender and boost his reelection chances.
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Trump allies used leverage to get Ukraine to 'play ball' Trump's defenders have insisted that no quid pro quo was offered to Zelensky.
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Trump has denied that the assistance to Ukraine was mentioned in the call, and has claimed there was no "quid pro quo" involved.
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In fact, some might even call what Schumer did a quid pro quo -- you support me, and I'll vote to acquit your president.
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Ted Cruz of Texas asked the President's lawyers whether, "as a matter of law," it matters if there was a quid pro quo.
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The tape is the subject of an investigation by Texas Rangers, who have been looking into allegations of a potential quid pro quo.
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" Sondland replied that Taylor was wrong about Trump's "intentions," and that the president had been "crystal clear" there was no "quid pro quo.
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He said he had not known about the Independent Democrats' "quid pro quo" with Republicans until getting involved in anti-Trump organizing efforts.
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Nevertheless, after a month of interviews with senior Trump administration officials, lawmakers have unearthed at least three examples of the quid pro quo.
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His deposition behind closed doors that alleged an explicit quid pro quo was seen as one of the most damaging to Trump's case.
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House Republicans emphasized Trump's personal assertion that he didn't want a quid pro quo, even though the evidence suggests he still sought one.
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If the testimony reveals deeper and incontrovertible involvement by Trump in the Ukraine quid pro quo -- does not the country deserve to know?
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Sondland is a major Trump donor who had previously claimed that there was no quid pro quo involved with the president's Ukraine dealings.
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In stunning testimony Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland said Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani explicitly sought a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine.
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" Asked by House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) if he's "aware that a quid pro quo literally means this for that?
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Still, most Republicans swiftly fell in line with the administration's argument that the call summary showed there was no direct quid pro quo.
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Romney sidestepped a question at The Atlantic Festival about whether he saw the implication of a quid pro quo in the call summary.
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" Though the reporters continued to press him on Sondland's testimony, Baldwin said, "I still told him no quid pro quo at least once.
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We also have criminal statutes barring any quid pro quo involving public officials (bribery, solicitation of a bribe or offering of a bribe).
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Gordon Sondland's newly revised testimony amounts to the smoking gun many House Democrats have been looking for: a quid pro quo on Ukraine.
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The timing of Trump's call, along with a sudden suspension of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, raised suspicions of a quid pro quo.
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And the implicit quid pro quo for such exemptions is that corporations support Donald Trump, or at least refrain from criticizing his actions.
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The result is an inferential impeachment case without the testimony of witnesses with possible direct knowledge of quid pro quo over Ukrainian aid.
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So for now, do prosecutors will always have to find a paper trail and an unambiguous quid-pro-quo to get a conviction?
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Well, beneath the huffing and puffing, here it is: It's common at this point in the Clinton Foundation pseudo-scandal cycle for the person in my position to point out that there's no quid pro quo and no evidence of wrongdoing, and then for the skeptics to say that corruption can take more insidious forms than a quid pro quo.
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NSC lawyer warned K.T. McFarland not to send email that could appear to be 'quid pro quo' Long before the current Ukraine controversy, the term "quid pro quo" came up in a White House conversation between K.T. McFarland, then a deputy national security adviser, and White House lawyer John Eisenberg, according to a heavily redacted account of her interview with FBI interviewers.
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"This has been contradicted by several witnesses who either implied that there was a quid pro quo — like Bill Taylor, the US's interim ambassador to Ukraine — or explicitly confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo — like Gordon Sondland, the US's ambassador to the EU.What Jordan said: "Ukraine didn't know aid was held up at the time of the phone call.
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And then conceding with that any other quid pro quo, the exercises that we conduct with the South Koreans was, I think, a mistake.
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Democrats, who released the text conversations, say the messages are evidence of a quid pro quo involving the aid and Trump's demands for investigations.
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In April, the Wall Street Journal reported that House Democrats were probing whether there was a quid pro quo arrangement between Calk and Manafort.
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Kasich had previously said in interviews that he did not think Trump shoud be impeached because he didn't see a clear quid pro quo.
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This quid pro quo is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry that the Democrats are running, so Mulvaney's confirmation of it was shocking.
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The only thing I can assume is he meant what he had to say -- that there was a quid pro quo on this stuff.
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Fast-forward between then and now, and quid pro quo has been manufactured into a key element of the story, dominating cable news discussions.
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Some of Trump's defenders know they're losing the "no quid pro quo" fight and have started arguing that there's actually nothing wrong with it.
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Sondland had testified last week that, after consulting with Trump, he was informed there was no quid pro quo arrangement involving the Ukraine aid.
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Though Mulvaney later walked back those remarks, Rooney told CNN's Poppy Harlow that it was "very clear" that there was a quid pro quo.
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The Magnitsky Act, ostensibly the purpose of the meeting, isn't going anywhere, so people are concluding that there wasn't a quid pro quo here.
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That undermines one of Mr. Trump's arguments: that there was no quid pro quo because the Ukrainians did not know assistance had been blocked.
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Sondland said the President had told him there was no quid pro quo, whereas all Taylor's testimony was missing was, well, the Latin itself.
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With respect to potential crimes, the existence of a quid pro quo is relevant to bribery, the essence of which is an illicit exchange.
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If there was, in fact, a quid pro quo, the case for abuse of power -- hence, the case for impeachment -- becomes difficult to refute.
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Johnson recounted the conversation in an interview with the Wall Street Journal and said the President vehemently denied any sort of quid pro quo.
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Why it matters: The issue of alleged quid pro quo involving Trump and Ukraine is central to the House inquiry into his possible impeachment.
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That pressure is at the heart of the ongoing impeachment inquiry, which seeks to determine whether Trump engaged in quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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GUTFELD: It was quid pro quo, and I didn&apost even know what that means, but I saw it on a Perry Mason episode.
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"Peer review works on a quid pro quo basis, so one could say that doing fewer reviews than papers is too little," Trinquart said.
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Senior U.S. officials cited by the WSJ noted the payment and the prisoner exchange were coincidental and did not represent any quid pro quo.
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Vindman's boss, Tim Morrison, chimed in two days later with testimony that further confirmed the core concerns of a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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Valeo when it struck down federal limits on "independent expenditures," concluding that the lack of coordination reduced the risk of quid pro quo corruption.
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The court's post-Buckley precedents conclude that "independent expenditures do not lead to, or create the appearance of, quid pro quo corruption," Kennedy wrote.
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Trump has been promising North Korean economic development as a quid pro quo for North Korean denuclearization and saying that this can happen quickly.
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If the Senate established such abuse of power in a quid pro quo arrangement with Ukraine, it could be the basis to remove Trump.
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One matter Democrats are looking into is whether there was a quid pro quo between Trump and Zelensky over the now-released military aid.
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But "you don't need to have any kind of exchange or quid pro quo to establish that a crime was committed here," Honig said.
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Sounds like a nail being hammered into a coffin to me...Oh, it's Ambassador Sondland say, "Yes, there absolutely WAS a quid pro quo".
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The difference was dramatic, and his new account supports the "quid pro quo" accusation on which much of the argument for impeaching Trump hinges.
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Since the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump began, the president and his allies have vigorously denied the notion of a quid pro quo agreement.
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Mike Braun (R-Ind), who just last month was arguing "no quid pro quo," doesn't seem to be persuadable on the question of impeachment.
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Some witnesses have testified that the aid was conditioned on investigations or that there was a quid pro quo between Trump and Ukraine's leader.
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There is plenty of evidence of "soft collusion," or a mutually beneficial understanding between Trump Tower and Moscow, without an explicit quid pro quo.
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But The Journal cited a person familiar with the matter as saying they didn't think Trump offered any quid pro quo during the call.
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Trump has denied that a "quid pro quo" deal — or demand for a favor in return for military aid — was ever sought with Ukraine.
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Mr. Sondland, for his part, confirmed Mr. Mulvaney's initial admission of a quid pro quo in new and damning testimony to Congress this week.
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He has repeatedly said there was no quid pro quo for the Ukraine investigations he was seeking, though witness testimony has contradicted that claim.
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For several weeks, the White House and Republicans' main defense was arguing that Trump was not engaged in a quid pro quo with Ukraine.
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"This is intended to be an apolitical commission that appears to have acted politically by seeking an inappropriate quid pro quo," Mr. Dadey said.
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Clinton was part of a quid pro quo in which the Clinton Foundation received large donations in exchange for support of the deal. Mrs.
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Mr. Trump later called Mr. Putin's suggestion of an investigative quid pro quo "an incredible offer," though how such reciprocity would work was unclear.
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Treasury officials said the rule would stand up to challenges because it applies a longstanding principle of taxation, known as "quid pro quo" doctrine.
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What do you do if you're a president who just survived an impeachment trial over a quid pro quo demand to a foreign leader?
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By the end of the Senate trial, Cruz privately told White House lawyers that all 100 senators believed Trump demanded a quid pro quo.
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Mr. Mulvaney's remarks, which he later said were misconstrued, undercut Mr. Trump's own insistence that there was no quid pro quo with Mr. Zelensky.
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Ted Cruz, who asked if it mattered there was any quid pro quo or if quid pro quos are often used in foreign policy.
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"You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like 'quid pro quo' and 'personal benefit,' " he added.
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"You cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like 'quid pro quo' and 'personal benefit,'" Dershowitz added.
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Trump has denied that there was any such quid pro quo, and said that he was simply urging the country to clean up corruption.
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Say that Mr. Trump did extend a quid pro quo to Ukraine, and that he did it to improve his own re-election prospects.
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Those donations — and whether they were part of a quid pro quo — are now at the heart of the impeachment case against Ms. Park.
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Whatever words Democrats choose to describe what is clearly a push to Mr. Trump's inevitable impeachment, they have abandoned the Latin quid pro quo.
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Two witnesses described their intimate views of an attempted quid pro quo on Thursday, wrapping up a momentous three-day stretch of public hearings.
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Sondland testified that Trump explicitly pushed for a "quid pro quo" with Ukraine conditioned on Kyiv launching politically-motivated investigations into the president's rivals.
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Then came the bullet-headed Republican, Gordon Sondland, an oddball hotelier whose ambassadorship to the European Union was a million-dollar quid pro quo.
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House investigators in the impeachment inquiry have zeroed in on the issue of whether this matter amounted to a quid pro quo or bribery.
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The deal was so "technical, so complicated ... we didn't want to be dragged down into a quid pro quo on other issues," Araud said.
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Trump has defended the phone call as "perfect," denying any wrongdoing and maintaining there was no quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukraine.
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That sure sounds like a threat to withhold money unless Mr. Zelensky did the president's bidding — what sticklers might call a quid pro quo.
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Apparently, she's already done her part for the quid-pro-quo deal, reportedly having completed the voice-over work before the holidays last month.
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Ultimately, the round of tariff hikes set for December was cancelled as a quid pro quo for China stepping up purchases of farm goods.
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Parnas's claims counter what Trump has said, which is that there was no explicit quid pro quo between him and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Since then, the president has denied that he proposed a quid pro quo to Zelensky with regard to almost $400 million in military aid.
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But, as Trump's team was able to point out, neither of them were explicitly told this was a quid pro quo in stark terms.
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Democrats emphasized that Republicans' arguments have only bolstered the case for including more witnesses who have direct knowledge about the alleged quid pro quo.
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Sondland will reportedly also tell Congress he called the president before texting TAYLOR that there was "no quid pro quo" at work in Ukraine.
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"Let me be clear, there was absolutely no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any investigation into the 2016 election," Mulvaney said.
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Despite having had much direct communication with him, Mr Sondland also did not claim Mr Trump outlined the quid pro quo to him personally.
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Sondland's testimony is the most damning evidence to date directly implicating Trump in the quid pro quo at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
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What Trump has said: Trump has been adamant in his self-defense, insisting over and over there was "no quid pro quo" in Ukraine.
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He has also repeatedly concluded no one involved in the quid pro quo scheme violated the law, despite noting how unorthodox it all was.
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Sondland, by contrast, largely confirmed facts we already knew: that Trump sought a quid pro quo arrangement with Ukraine to undercut a political rival.
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Treason isn't necessarily spelled out as a quid pro quo, and it wasn't when Nixon tried to sink the Vietnam peace initiative in 1968.
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The GOP lawmakers did not find any wrongdoing by the president and concluded that there was no quid pro quo for aid to Ukraine.
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Trump has confirmed that he raised Biden on the call, but he has denied that there was any quid pro quo involving the aid.
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They noted that there was no explicit quid pro quo in which Trump tied aid for Ukraine to the country's willingness to investigate Biden.
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"There is no requirement that there be a quid pro quo in the conversation," Pelosi said at an event sponsored by The Atlantic magazine.
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Trump officials did present the Ukrainians with a "quid pro quo" — an announcement on investigations would get Zelensky a meeting at the White House.
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Any claim of a quid pro quo, the report says, is meaningless because the terms of a supposed improper arrangement never came to be.
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Now he will run as the candidate arguing that his demands of Ukraine did not quite rise to the level of quid pro quo.
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But all the president would say was that he wanted Zelensky "to do the right thing" and wasn't asking for a quid pro quo.
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It was the week when a top U.S. envoy tied President Donald Trump directly to a Ukraine quid pro quo in explosive congressional testimony.
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This is a key exchange that Democrats are likely to present as further evidence of a direct quid pro quo between Trump and Zelensky.
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If a quid pro quo was proven, it would be self-dealing and an abuse of public office, and that can be a crime.
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Bill Taylor, the career diplomat who replaced Yovanovitch and testified about the extent of the quid pro quo Trump and Giuliani were engaged in.
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Trump has denied he sought a "quid pro quo" involving the aid and a White House meeting in exchange for Ukraine announcing the probes.
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"Dear @SenateGOP, This is what another quid pro quo by the President of the United States looks like," Nadler tweeted, pointing to Trump's comment.
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"Ambassador Sondland's testimony stated that President Trump said the Ukraine President should just do the right thing (No Quid Pro Quo)," Mr. Trump wrote.
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The fixation from Fox and other right-wing media on the "quid pro quo" aspect aligned with the talking points sent to Trump allies.
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We explained that was not possible and we could not engage in a quid pro quo, nor could any money change hands for any reason.
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Skelos, 70, testified in his own defense, claiming there was never a quid-pro-quo expected when he reached out on behalf of Adam, 36.
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Over the past few weeks, Republicans on Capitol Hill have defended the President, claiming there was no quid pro quo between Trump and Ukraine. Rep.
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She also said Bolton called a White House meeting, where a US ambassador allegedly pushed Trump's quid pro quo on Ukrainian officials, a drug deal.
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The now-former EU ambassador testified that there was a "quid pro quo" in which Trump leveraged a White House meeting in exchange for investigations.
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Democrats viewed Taylor's testimony as particularly damaging for the president, who has repeatedly denied a quid pro quo or any inappropriate interactions with the Ukrainians.
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We have to challenge ourselves to question if we've settled for a quid pro quo that provides personal privacy at the cost of lives globally.
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Sondland confirmed a quid pro quo and implicated Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former national security adviser John Bolton.
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U.S. Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland testified that there was a quid pro quo involving the investigations and a White House visit for Zelensky.
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Trump on Friday insisted that there was no quid pro quo in his dealings with Ukraine, despite the material in the newly released text messages.
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A quid pro quo might have triggered an all-out nuclear war, which would, as Mr Downing puts it, leave only "cockroaches and scorpions" alive.
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In one, an FBI official recounted hearing second-hand that the State Department had offered a "quid pro quo" in exchange for declassifying an email.
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The FBI did not declassify the email in question and there is no evidence that the purported "quid pro quo" amounted to a federal crime.
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