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Originally Posted by Pete F.
1. For impeachment and removal you don’t need a smoking gun, just evidence that proves the point, directly, circumstantially or otherwise.
For impeachment, you only need enough votes in the House of Representatives to do it.
2. And you don’t need a quid pro quo—just abuse of power.
Abuse of power is a vague enough concept that convincing sounding narratives of all sorts can be concocted to appear to be an "abuse of power."
3. That said, there’s plenty of smoking-gun evidence here of quid pro quo.
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Quid pro quo is standard procedure in foreign policy. It is one of the basic understandings in policies of cooperation. It is not a crime.