Can Republicans argue so what Ukraine was pressured,

What the deep state is really upset about is that Trump is changing precedent and investigating past executives. That never really happens. Presidents and Vice presidents were supposed to be untouchable on how they made their money while in office.

There should be a quid pro quo for every dollar in aid that we send over seas. If we do this (aid) then you will do that (whatever we tie the aid to). Foreign aid should come in a zero based budget starting over every year from those countries requesting aid. Every dollar should have an ear mark. If they use it for something else, then they get zero the next. It should be audited every year or so.

Personally, the only foreign aid that we spend should only be in the form of aid that ensures our national security.

I think that’s pretty much what they’ve said all along.

Foreign aid is the definition of “quid pro quo”. We give you money/aid and you do what we want. It’s only happened since we became a world power.

The whole pressure thing is ridiculous. Other than disaster aid, every piece of money we send has some caveat attached to it. Hell, they probably attack caveats to disaster aid too.

Dems have no legs on this. He did nothing Illegal and if they believe it was unethical, then they need to explain why the Obama administration using the full force of the federal government to investigate and leak information on Trump was fine, legal and ethical.

At the end of the day it is laughable to call this High Crimes and Misdemeanors. They can't even point to a broken law which is why they had to go with "Abuse" and "Obstruction" because those are subjective terms. Not high crimes.