This is the same kind of dumbass shit we saw defending him during the impeachment. "He didn't literally say the words quid pro quo so you can't claim that's what he was doing".
Smart people do not think this way. They don't need actions to have corresponding exposition to figure out what is going on
It said they backed him, which just means publicly spoke in his favor. But some of them may have their citizenship. That is often a goal of migrants