That said, Barr undoubtedly did Trump a major political favor.
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But he suspected that Finch was doing a political favor.
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The foundation was also used to curry political favor, the lawsuit asserts.
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Could repealing it, I asked, be so unpopular that it'll lose political favor?
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Do not ask the president of Ukraine to do you a political favor.
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The White House dismissed suggestions that Florida's exemption was a political favor to Scott.
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"This was no political favor with Lance Mason," Mr. Jackson told WOIO-TV last November.
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Is prayer really intended to be about persuading God to do us a political favor?
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The term describes a market where success is determined by political favor rather than consumer choice.
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It is, of course, illegal to exchange a contribution for a job in government or political favor.
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Taken to an extreme, political favor can become a corporate asset, one that easily depreciates in value.
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Nations that suddenly fall out of political favor with Beijing, for whatever reason, could subsequently suffer weighty economic consequences.
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Paradoxically, one source of change may be China itself, as it looks to win political favor in Southeast Asia.
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He pressured James Comey, then the F.B.I. director, to let up on the Russia investigation, as a political favor.
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Republicans, eager to talk about sexual accusations other than Mr. Moore's, tried to turn the allegations to their political favor.
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The company is also seeking to curry political favor amid standoffs between U.S. lawmakers and Chinese tech and telecom firms.
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"There&aposs no doubt that president has abused his office by withholding military aid for a political favor," Khanna said.
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Why would Trump use a phone call with a foreign leader to ask for a blatantly personal and political favor?
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"I am not aware of any political favor that that would have been part of," spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters.
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What we need to learn to fear is corruption in which political favor becomes the primary driver of economic success.
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Prosecutors allege Parnas and the others were attempting to curry political favor and advance their own business interests with their actions.
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Environmental groups accused Mr. Zinke of currying political favor with Governor Scott while pushing ahead with opening up coastal waters elsewhere.
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The report gave Mr. Barr's critics fodder to accuse him of using his role to do the president a political favor.
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Mr. Trump's attempt to gain a personal political favor is not simply astoundingly bad judgment, it is antithetical to our democracy.
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Now, Trump is suspected of temporarily holding up $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, while asking for a political favor.
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Meanwhile, friends and allies of Mr. Orban went on a buying spree, presumably more in search of political favor than financial gain.
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Andrew: His testimony certainly helped Democrats as they build their case that Trump sought to condition official acts on a political favor.
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What if more information trickles out that clearly shows Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine for a political favor related to Biden?
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One said it's "unseemly," while others called it a "naive" and "stupid" mistake, to ask a foreign leader for a political favor.
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In 2019, Venezuela demonstrated the limits to which political favor and utility for the Kremlin can be stretched, and business again becomes business.
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The former secretary of state accused Sanders of delivering an "artful smear" by suggesting her political favor could be bought by rich donors.
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"President Obama's total reversal can only be described as a special political favor to far-left activists," Mr. McCrory said in a statement.
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After Mr. Dung fell out of political favor in 2016, the Vietnamese government continued to tolerate Facebook while trying to police information published online.
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If funds were improperly spent or if money was given in exchange for a political favor, the committee could be in violation of federal laws.
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Lawyers for the defense argued that the prosecution had to show a more direct link between a specific gift followed by a specific political favor.
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On top of that, confidence has been shaken on concerns private firms were falling out of political favor in relation to their powerful state-owned brethren.
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Some of the Democrats are doing it the way it should be, but some are trying to gain political favor by saying a lot of untruths.
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BUILD A HOTEL: For every hotel that you build on an undeveloped foreign square, give the owner of that square one Back-Room Political Favor chip.
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Their hope is to discount the House managers' argument that Trump put security assistance on hold to get the Ukrainians to do him a political favor.
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Kim thinks — and North Korean officials have said — they were doing Trump a political favor, which is why they expected to be rewarded with sanctions relief.
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But the foundation was also used to curry political favor, the suit contends, and during the 2016 race, it became a virtual wing of Mr. Trump's campaign.
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I also was confident that even if it disagreed with our decisions, it would find the F.B.I. team made them without regard for political favor or partisanship.
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Democrats, in turn, have tirelessly argued that Trump committed a high crime by using his office to leverage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a personal political favor.
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Committees in the House are investigating whether President Trump abused his powers in asking Mr. Zelensky for a political "favor" — an investigation in Ukraine into leading Democrats.
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Now Warren says she was fired from a job in the 1970s for being pregnant in an effort to curry political favor on the 85033 campaign trail.
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Furthermore, the risk that New Delhi may waive more loans by farmers to gain political favor adds to concerns about the government's finances and credit discipline, Varathan said.
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In fact, he turned the allegations in his political favor -- arguing they were a creation of the liberal left -- and the complicit media -- designed to keep him from winning.
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The group, Allied Progress, said a resolution introduced earlier this year to wipe out the rule was a political favor to industry leader Total System Services Inc, or TSYS.
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He said, "President Obama's total reversal can only be described as a special political favor to far-left activists" — not to "far-left countries hostile to the United States."
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Bolton, in a new book manuscript, says Trump explicitly told him about conditioning aid on the political favor, according to a report the New York Times released this week.
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"He took a political favor and played God, and took justice away from this family," said Solarno, who is also a board member for the advocacy group Crime Victims United.
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In fact, jockeying for political favor — which does nothing to solve the underlying problem — can end up costing more than simply reducing water use or implementing efficiency measures without conflict.
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But by describing the call as "perfect," Trump is also implicitly arguing that he is perfectly within his rights as President to pressure a foreign leader for a political favor.
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That's because Trump, according to testimony by officials in his own administration withheld nearly $400 million in military aid in a bid to force Ukraine to deliver a political favor.
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They cited media reports that foreign dignitaries have "flocked" to the hotel and said many people had increased their use of the hotel and its restaurants to gain political favor.
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The brutal truth is that, for many on both sides of the political divide, impoverished urban schoolchildren don't exist; they don't count because they and their parents produce no political favor.
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Trump has denied that any "quid pro quo" deal — or arrangement in which a political favor was demanded from Ukraine in return from military aid — was ever placed on the table.
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It's going to create a mad scramble in which the winners are those willing to pollute, cheat, and curry political favor — just the sort of business environment wannabe autocrats like Trump enjoy.
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The new allegations have become a political headache for Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy, who is accused of misusing the country's intelligence networks to do a political favor for Mr. Trump.
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But he said it must be used to remove a president who "would sell out his country for a political favor," undermine the integrity of elections and invite foreign interference in American affairs.
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Should this coup succeed, District Bank directors would be selected not for their interest in increasing economic opportunity wherever it shows promise, but rather in channeling resources to where they maximize political favor.
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Amid accusations that the dropped charges were a political favor, a judge appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the decision and explore whether there are new grounds to prosecute the former 'Empire' actor.
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The short version is that he appears to have used the promise of aid -- paid for with US tax dollars -- as leverage to force a foreign country to do him a political favor.
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The first article, claiming that Trump held up aid to Ukraine in a bid to win a political favor, does contain a brief reference to the Russia-related allegations that triggered Mueller's probe.
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Lawmakers are looking into whether Trump's actions jeopardized national security and the integrity of U.S. elections, saying he appeared to be soliciting a political favor from a foreign leader to get re-elected.
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Still, Rossello has talked tough, saying he disagrees with some of the board's initiatives, rhetoric that could curry political favor with many voters who see the board as an unwelcome extension of U.S. imperialism.
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The FEC argues that Area 1 hasn't demonstrated enough of a tangible, quantifiable business reason to offer the low-cost services, and that therefore the firm could make that offer to curry political favor.
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Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), ranking member on the Transportation Committee, suggested that Trump's endorsement of the plan was merely "a political favor" thrown to Shuster for backing him in the GOP presidential primary race.
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But his revelation that the president, in a face-to-face conversation, confirmed a quid pro quo — security assistance in exchange for a personal, political favor — makes it nearly impossible for the GOP to ignore.
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"To all appearances — appearances promoted by Hatch — this anti-environmental, anti-Native American and, yes, anti-business decommissioning of national monuments was basically a political favor the White House did for Hatch," the editorial states.
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Pelosi, who had resisted impeachment for most of the year, shifted gears in late September after allegations from a government whistleblower that Trump had abused his power in asking Ukrainian leaders for a political favor.
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For these reasons alone, the public engagement of social scientists — who look on the world with an eye of skepticism, objectivity, and quizzicalness, rather than one of political favor or contempt — is an important service.
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Two years and multiple anti-LGBTQ policies later, a new book by his former press secretary Sean Spicer reveals that the sentence in Trump's convention speech was nothing more than empty payback for a political favor.
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The testimony of the four witnesses - from the White House budget office and National Security Council - would have been important to determining whether Trump used foreign aid to Ukraine as leverage to secure a political favor.
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Conspiracy Theory #7: In suddenly halting years of military aid to Ukraine shortly before asking the Ukrainian president for a political "favor," Trump claimed that Europe was not contributing enough resources to support the Ukrainian government.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top White House aide's suggestion that President Donald Trump sought a political favor from Ukraine in exchange for military assistance has upended the administration's impeachment strategy and left his Republican allies flummoxed and frustrated.
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Impeachment witnesses have testified to the House that they believed the order to block the aid, which was authorized by Congress, was given by Trump, who allegedly sought to pressure Ukraine to do him a political favor.
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But now, unhelmed, apparently out of political favor, and at the mercy of circling creditors, CEFC is trying to shed assets in an effort to repay its extensive debt as banks and auditors pore over its financial statements.
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Democrats accused Republicans of using Tuesday's testimony behind closed doors to try to root out the identity of the whistleblower who wrote the now-famous memo alleging Trump demanded a political favor from Ukraine in exchange for military aid.
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According to Scott Peterson, the executive director of the Checks & Balances Project, a watchdog group that monitors attempts to influence environmental policy, Pence was invited to the Koch seminar only after he did the brothers a major political favor.
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White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's admission of holding up aid to Ukraine for a political favor — and then insisting he didn't describe a quid pro quo because he didn't actually say the Latin term — is the latest clue.
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Ukraine sits at the center of the trial, with Democratic House managers arguing that Trump misused the power of his office by freezing congressionally approved aid to the country in an attempt to leverage a personal political favor from Zelensky.
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In an apparent nod to concerns of political favor for the state-run sector, Xi, according to Xinhua, called for a level playing field for private business and said the Communist Party of China should pay more attention to its needs.
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Os Keyes, a researcher at the University of Washington who joined hundreds of outsiders in signing the Googlers' petition protesting James' inclusion, says the episode suggests Google cares more about currying political favor with conservatives than the impact of AI technology.
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The promise of any official act in exchange for a political favor could raise corruption allegations, as shown by the conviction of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who went to prison for trying to trading a Senate appointment for campaign donations.
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Following a whistleblower complaint that Trump, a Republican, solicited a political favor from Ukraine's president that could help him get re-elected, the lawmakers are investigating concerns that Trump's actions have jeopardized national security and the integrity of U.S. elections.
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The bondholders say the 2017 budget "makes huge transfers" to entities "that apparently enjoy political favor but are indisputably junior to" the bondholders, like the island's woefully underfunded pension system, and its insolvent Government Development Bank, which is its primary fiscal agent.
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The House voted to impeach Trump for abuse of power related to his pressure on Ukraine for a political favor and for obstructing Congress, including not allowing former White House officials to testify, just like the White House has done with McGahn.
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Sondland testified that Trump directly conditioned aid to Ukraine on a political favor, undercutting one of the main White House defenses that officials conducting this backchannel diplomacy with Ukraine had been freelancing rather than acting at the direction of the president himself.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday he had not offered to resign for indicating last week that U.S. President Donald Trump had sought a political favor from Ukraine in exchange for military aid, comments he has since retracted.
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U.S. trade officials are in Kyiv on Friday for annual talks on boosting trade and investment, taking place against the backdrop of House impeachment proceedings into whether President Donald Trump improperly withheld military aid to pressure Ukraine's government to do him a political favor.
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The number of people invited to listen in on the president&aposs calls has also been restricted recently, since a whistleblower reported that Trump used a call with the president of Ukraine to request a political favor meant to help aid his reelection in 2020.
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It means that he used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation—a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia—pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.
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His five-year plan for oil and gas exploration opened up vast swaths of America's outer continental shelf that had been off limits (while exempting coastal Florida as an apparent political favor to the state's Republican governor, Rick Scott, who was facing a tough re-election bid).
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The postponement provided Mr. Bhalla and his allies with an additional 48 hours to try to block a sale that they say is a political favor to a successful company and an attempt to circumvent Hoboken's ability to decide how land within its borders should be used.
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READ: Trump's legal position on impeachment is bananas Though Democrats worried for months about the politics of impeachment, support for it has only risen since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially announced an inquiry in late September over Trump's call to Ukraine's president asking for a political favor.
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"It means that he used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation—a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia—pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor," he added.
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Some Democrats had hoped that a narrow probe -- focused on whether Trump put on ice efforts to bolster relations with Ukraine and provide US military aid to the country until it carried through with a political favor -- could conclude swiftly, with a potential vote to impeach Trump by Thanksgiving.
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It played out against the backdrop of a congressional impeachment investigation into another "perfect" foreign-policy incursion by the president, his attempt to compel Ukraine's new president to do him a political favor in exchange for an invitation to the White House and the release of military aid.
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The "centrality" of the Belt and Road project "serves as a significant bottom-up incentive for Chinese executives to position their business activities within its framework, in order to access state financing, receive diplomatic support abroad and garner political favor at home," Brennan added in a note published Monday.
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"I think the way you need to ask about this is, how does it fit into the pattern of behavior by the president because what you're really doing is you're drawing inferences here," she said, and "the record supports the inference" that Trump asked Zelensky for a political favor.
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The editorial criticized the "dramatic dismantling" of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, both in Utah, and claimed that the move was essentially a political favor granted by the White House in return for Mr. Hatch's support of President Trump and of the Republican tax plan.
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"This is a hollow retreat from normalization that takes a swipe at Americans' freedom to travel, at our national interest, and at the people of Cuba who yearn to reconnect with us – all just to score a political favor with a small and dwindling faction here at home," Leahy wrote.
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For a man who would sell out his country for a political favor, for a man with threatening integrity to our elections, for a man inviting interference in our affairs, a man who would undermine our national security and that of our allies, for a man like Donald J. Trump.
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But the attorney general's office has charged that the Trump Foundation was used to win political favor, accusing the foundation of virtually becoming an arm of the Trump campaign, with its campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, directing the foundation to make disbursements in Iowa only days before the state held its presidential nominating caucuses.
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The articles, which were passed largely along party lines, state that Trump abused the powers of the presidency by leveraging military aid to Ukraine for a personal political favor and later obstructed Congress by blocking White House officials who are thought to have firsthand knowledge of his dealings with Ukraine from testifying.
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Bondi's arguments have nothing to do with the two charges against Trump under the articles of impeachment — abuse of power over withholding taxpayer-funded military aid to Ukraine in exchange for the personal political favor of investigating the Hunter Biden, and contempt of Congress charges for failing to comply with the investigation.
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Public opinion barely budges Even after a tremendous effort by the Democrats to convince Americans that Trump abused his power in pursuit of a political favor, the President's approval numbers are steady at 42%, and CNN's new poll found that only 10% of Republicans favor impeachment and removal (up from 6% in October).
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On the American side, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 85033 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE was just impeached in the House of Representatives over allegations that he improperly sought a political favor from a foreign leader.
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OK, and that has bearing on the broader possibility of a crime—that this purchase by Pecker, if it were on behalf of Trump as a political favor rather than a personal one and Trump and Cohen considered acquiring it themselves, that it amounted to a donation that was unreported and therefore a federal campaign finance violation, right?
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This again undercuts any argument of a national interest at work here, and it is part of the compelling narrative that our president used his power and authority to extract a personal political favor from another country that desperately requires our assistance against an existential military threat, in the hope that doing so will damage the election prospects of a rival.
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Until recently, almost all of Russia's ''patriotic'' movies were bottom-up attempts to curry political favor (Yuri Grymov's ''Strangers,'' a 22014 anti-American screed, was financed by a second-tier political party), self-aggrandizing ego trips (like 1998's ''The Barber of Siberia,'' Nikita Mikhalkov's Oscar bid and an oblique exploration of his putative presidential ambitions) or simply ways to painlessly embezzle federal funds.
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The FBI is renewing an examination into the Clinton Foundation and its activities, including a series of interviews with those linked to the foundation over whether donations were made to curry political favor while Hillary Clinton was secretary of State, the NYT's Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman report, confirming parts of a report out Thursday from The Hill's John Solomon, which cited a witness and law enforcement officials.
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" At times, Sondland seemed almost gleeful as he outed Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and top administration figures as players in an effort to extract a political favor from Ukraine in return for vital military aid from the US. "With his testimony, Sondland portrayed the Trump-Giuliani scheme as constructed out of lies and fantasies and characterized the schemers to be aggressive, abusive and heedless of the damage they were doing to both the United States and Ukraine.
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" Trump has said that news outlets like CNN were "doing everything they can to instill fear in people" and Democrats are "trying to gain political favor by saying a lot of untruths," while Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick MulvaneyMick MulvaneyDozens of Democrats raise concerns over 'public charge' rule and coronavirus response Feehery: Mulvaney fit for Northern Ireland post Meadows self-quarantines after possible exposure to coronavirus patient MORE said journalists are boosting talk of the coronavirus because "they think this will bring down the president.
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