What is foreign aid - but a reward to a country to adjust their behavior towards their people consonant with American values of freedom and democracy????+1
Every POTUS who has presided over foreign aid awards, and every Congress approving a budget including foreign aid, had done the same "quid pro quo" to foreign countries to change their behavior (with often poor success) that the DPST's are accusing Trump of doing - and they hypocritically support foreign aid to some of the worst actors on the planet in the name of "Diversity".
It is just a ploy of the DPST House - which has been planning impeachment since the day after the election of Nov 2016. Originally Posted by oeb11
Oh, dear! Was it "bribery" and "extortion" when we told Pakistan they had to go after al Queda in their northwest provinces or else we would stop sending them $1.2 billion a year in military assistance?
Was it "bribery" and "extortion" when we told Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras they had to stop sending caravans of illegals to our southern border or else we would terminate our foreign aid programs?
It happens ALL THE TIME in our conduct of foreign policy, under Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
not the same thing.. Trump acted for the express purpose of obtaining dirt on his political opponent.. you know that. why try to spin this? Originally Posted by Chung TranThen your issue isn't with the alleged quid pro quo in this case, is it? Your issue is with the alleged purpose. So stop being disingenuous and trying to spin it as "bribery" or "extortion", ok?