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No lawmaker has been more critical of President Trumps relationship with Russia than Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). The House Intelligence Committee chairman has long claimed that plenty of evidence of collusion exists in plain sight, making him a frequent target of Trumps Twitter tirades. So when Attorney General William Barr wrote on Sunday that the Mueller report did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities, the president and his allies came down hard on Schiff. During a phone interview with Sean Hannity Wednesday night, Trump even implied that Schiffs repeated exhortations about collusion could be considered criminal. You can say its a crime, Trump said.
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Trump has also called for Schiffs resignation, claiming Barrs summary of Muellers report which the New York Times reported on Thursday is over 300 pages long proves that the Democrat knowingly lied about Trumps unscrupulous relationship with Russia.
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The GOP is following the presidents lead. On Thursday morning, every Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee called for Schiff to step down. In response, Schiff delivered a fiery address to the committee, reeling off evidence of the Trump campaigns relationship with Russia.
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My colleagues might think its OK that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of whats described as the Russian governments effort to help the Trump campaign, he said. My colleagues might think its OK that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help no, instead that son said he would love the help with the Russians. You might think it was ok that he took that meeting. You might think its ok that Paul Manafort, the campaign chair, someone with great experience running campaigns, also took that meeting. You might think its ok that the presidents son-in-law also took that meeting. You might think its ok that they concealed it from the public. You might think its ok that their only disappointment after that meeting was that the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasnt better. You might think its OK. I dont.
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exboyfil
(17,862 posts)by everyone including the President. Using adoption as a shield to hide the actual purpose of the meeting? You would think Right to Lifers would be outraged by that. That point has not been hammered nearly enough.
writes3000
(4,734 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)1. Once you start to play defense, youve lost, politically.
2. Responding to his bullshit gets his bullshit twice as much attention.
If it comes from Fox or from Trump, its bullshit and should be 100% ignored.
Schiffs response is a masterpiece. Its just that Trumps whining should be ignored by anyone who doesnt do as good a job.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)but everyone in the media ignores it when they should be ignoring him.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I think I started calling it the MSM being drawn to "sensationalism" way back toward the beginning. Now I'm not sure what to call it because, after awhile, even sensationalism gets tiresome. I'm getting increasingly tired of news programs feeling the need to play clips of IT every ten seconds during a new story. God how I want to scream, "JUST SUMMARIZE THE ASSHOLE'S DRIVEL"!!
ffr
(22,669 posts)miyazaki
(2,240 posts)There would be heads on sticks if this charade played out in some other distant time and place.
red dog 1
(27,797 posts)Donald Trump, "who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from" White House!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You are a national hero!
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Well, OK then why didn't every Republican Senator resign during the Obama years? According to this, every GOP Senator would have been out between 2008 to 2016.
All they did was criticize and block Obama for EIGHT FUCKING YEARS!