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crickets

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6. Isn't "name your price" a bribe?

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Nov 20, 2022, 06:36 PM

Nov 2022

I don't think they were talking about money but favors. That still counts. It's a bribe, an attempt to buy his future votes.

18 U.S. Code § 201 - Bribery of public officials and witnesses
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201

We're all a bit numb to the campaign contribution bribery that goes on daily, but this is a different beast. It's incredible that no one in media (or Congress) is pointing out the obvious bribery here and asking which Congresscritters offered it. At the very least put some naming and shaming out there, people. Wow.

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Isn't "name your price" a bribe? crickets Nov 2022 #6

With all of this amounting to little more than a fart in a windstorm . . . . Stinky The Clown Nov 2022 #7