{"id":2116,"date":"2020-01-29T23:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2020-01-29T23:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T23:03:40","slug":"ted-cruz-now-quid-pro-quo-doesnt-matter-ted-cruz-before-quid-pro-quo-talk-is-hearsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz now: Quid pro quo \u201cdoesn\u2019t matter.\u201d Ted Cruz before: Quid pro quo talk is \u201chearsay.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“former National Security Adviser John Bolton is reportedly prepared to testify he has first-hand knowledge of a quid pro quo<\/a> in which President Donald Trump linked the release of held-up military aid to Ukraine to the government there helping him with investigations aimed at damaging his domestic political foes. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly<\/a> told Republican senators on Tuesday he doesn\u2019t have the votes to block Democrats and four Republicans from compelling Bolton\u2019s testimony during the ongoing impeachment trial.
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So now that it\u2019s becoming harder to deny the quid pro quo, Republican senators are learning to love it \u2014 and using the Trump-friendly confines of Fox News to downplay Bolton\u2019s revelations before he even has the chance to testify.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“before news about Bolton\u2019s position broke on Sunday, the Trumpworld line was that there was no evidence one ever existed. For instance, just two weeks ago, Cruz dismissed quid pro allegations as mere \u201chearsay\u201d coming from \u201cpeople who had no direct evidence, witnesses who\u2019d never even met President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cquid pro quo doesn\u2019t matter.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Republicans learning to love the quid pro quo illustrates how far they\u2019re willing to go to defend Trump. They have no shame about contradicting statements they made just weeks ago, interpreting Trump\u2019s actions in a way inconsistent with the known facts”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/29\/21113331\/republicans-quid-pro-quo-ted-cruz-does-not-matter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“former National Security Adviser John Bolton is reportedly prepared to testify he has first-hand knowledge of a quid pro quo in which President Donald Trump linked the release of held-up military aid to Ukraine to the government there helping him with investigations aimed at damaging his domestic political foes. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly told Republican senators on Tuesday he doesn\u2019t have the votes to block Democrats and four Republicans from compelling Bolton\u2019s testimony during the ongoing impeachment trial.<\/p>\n

So now that it\u2019s becoming harder to deny the quid pro quo, Republican senators are learning to love it \u2014 and using the Trump-friendly confines of Fox News to downplay Bolton\u2019s revelations before he even has the chance to testify.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“before news about Bolton\u2019s position broke on Sunday, the Trumpworld line was that there was no evidence one ever existed. For instance, just two weeks ago, Cruz dismissed quid pro allegations as mere \u201chearsay\u201d coming from \u201cpeople who had no direct evidence, witnesses who\u2019d never even met President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cquid pro quo doesn\u2019t matter.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Republicans learning to love the quid pro quo illustrates how far they\u2019re willing to go to defend Trump. They have no shame about contradicting statements they made just weeks ago, interpreting Trump\u2019s actions in a way inconsistent with the known facts”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[294,370,371,170],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-impeachment","tag-john-bolton","tag-quid-pro-quo","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}