The weight the person carries provides the context for the 'threat'.
If I told a PM their country's security would be at risk, it carries no weight.
If a sitting VP now President told a foreign official the same, that carries so much more weight.
Forget plausible deniability, forget assassination threats, it's perfectly clear what was being communicated.
Sure but this allows for easy plausible deniability, what the left will say is that he was saying Trump looking into the finances of Ukraine will get him to stop sending them money and weapons and will allow for the threat to his physical security that is Russian invasion.
Nice restaurant you have here. Be a shame if something happened.
-Tony Soprano-
Yeah, all threats are completely spelled out every time.
Shame shame shame for thinking otherwise.
Exactly, it's a classic mafia threat.
The weight the person carries provides the context for the 'threat'. If I told a PM their country's security would be at risk, it carries no weight. If a sitting VP now President told a foreign official the same, that carries so much more weight. Forget plausible deniability, forget assassination threats, it's perfectly clear what was being communicated.
Sure but this allows for easy plausible deniability, what the left will say is that he was saying Trump looking into the finances of Ukraine will get him to stop sending them money and weapons and will allow for the threat to his physical security that is Russian invasion.
... well son-of-a-bitch. He got fired.