The term “quid pro quo” was at the center of the obsessive attempt to unseat then-President Donald Trump during the first impeachment saga.

The assertion was that Trump was pressuring the Ukrainian government into investigating the Biden family’s business dealings, leveraging a $400 million military aid package in return. Critics argued that Trump was leveraging national power and foreign policy for his own personal political benefit. Trump was essentially impeached for offering something in return for something else. Indeed, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) pushed for impeachment based on one phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, describing it as a “shakedown.”