r/politics • u/RB_Reich Robert Reich • Sep 26 '19

Let’s talk about impeachment! I'm Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, author, professor, and co-founder of Inequality Media. AMA. AMA-Finished

I'm Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor for President Clinton and Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. I also co-founded Inequality Media in 2014.

Earlier this year, we made a video on the impeachment process: The Impeachment Process Explained

Please have a look and subscribe to our channel for weekly videos. (My colleagues are telling me I should say, “Smash that subscribe button,” but that sounds rather violent to me.)

Let’s talk about impeachment, the primaries, or anything else you want to discuss.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/tiGP0tL.jpg

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19 edited Sep 26 '19

Imagine you’re starving. Haven’t eaten in days. Congress unanimously decides to give you a cheeseburger. The president shows up and stands in front of you with that cheeseburger. There’s even a label on the cheeseburger that has your name on it. You KNOW that cheeseburger is meant for you. You have a conversation with the president. You suck up to him and his ego because you’re starving and just cannot wait to get your hands on that cheeseburger. Finally, you mention the cheeseburger, and the president’s literal next words are “I want you to do a favor for me though” and then asks you to do something. Then he walks away still holding on to YOUR cheeseburger.

Meanwhile, both sides of congress ask the president why he won’t give you your cheeseburger. He was SUPPOSED to give you that cheeseburger. He doesn’t give an answer, deflects, and finally gives two separate conflicting reasons why he wouldn’t give you that cheeseburger.

Is this a good analogy of the situation to describe the the implication of quid pro quo? If so, is the implication in and of itself impeachable?

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u/RB_Reich Robert Reich Sep 26 '19

Trump has already broken the law merely by asking a foreign power to help him in the election. No cheeseburger (or any other quid pro quo) needed.

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u/gamefaqs_astrophys Massachusetts Sep 26 '19

This would be an excellent point for you to bring up whenever you get invited onto new shows/discussion panels over the coming days, to pound it in again and again to help people get this important thing so they realize just how criminal Trump has been and to ramp up pressure on those who continue to defend him.

Could you please try to make sure to do this? (That's my question.)