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kpete

(71,957 posts) Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:38 PM Jan 2020

Read between the lines here in this Lindsey Graham statement:

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Read between the lines here in this Lindsey Graham statement: (Original Post) kpete Jan 2020 OP

But: What is he trying to say in the first sentence? MagickMuffin Jan 2020 #1

I believe it's a mixed-motives argument dpibel Jan 2020 #2

MagickMuffin

(15,925 posts)

1. But: What is he trying to say in the first sentence?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:33 PM

Jan 2020

I'm having a hard time trying to decipher it. To me it makes no sense whatsoever.

dpibel

(2,826 posts)

2. I believe it's a mixed-motives argument

Reply to MagickMuffin (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 02:08 PM

Jan 2020

I understood the Trump team to be developing the argument that, so long as he had some legitimate reason for withholding the aid, it doesn't matter that he may also may have had an illegitimate reason.

It's a defense that (depending on the law of the jurisdiction) can work in discrimination lawsuits: You have to prove that discrimination was the sole reason for termination; an employer can escape liability if there was some legitimate reason for termination.

That's the best sense I can make of this line of argument.

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