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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 03:59 PM Mar 2019

Adam Schiff Presents His 'Evidence of Collusion'

No lawmaker has been more critical of President Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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 Schiff’s repeated exhortations about collusion could be considered criminal. “You can say it’s a crime,” Trump said.


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Trump has also called for Schiff’s resignation, claiming Barr’s summary of Mueller’s report — which the New York Times reported on Thursday is over 300 pages long — proves that the Democrat knowingly lied about Trump’s unscrupulous relationship with Russia.


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The GOP is following the president’s 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 campaign’s relationship with Russia.


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“My colleagues might think it’s OK that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what’s described as the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign,” he said. “My colleagues might think it’s 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 it’s ok that Paul Manafort, the campaign chair, someone with great experience running campaigns, also took that meeting. You might think it’s ok that the president’s son-in-law also took that meeting. You might think it’s ok that they concealed it from the public. You might think it’s ok that their only disappointment after that meeting was that the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasn’t better. You might think it’s OK. I don’t.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/adam-schiff-trump-russia-collusion-814414/
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Adam Schiff Presents His 'Evidence of Collusion' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP
Also the post meeting lies exboyfil Mar 2019 #1
If you watch both parts of the Schiff clip, he lays that out as well. writes3000 Mar 2019 #7
What if Democrats just refused to engage with his bullshit? renate Mar 2019 #2
I hear people suggest this over the past two years BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #5
I have been one of those people ProudLib72 Mar 2019 #8
I'm waiting for the day when Hannity goes down with the Rusky traitor ship. ffr Mar 2019 #3
Mueller better talk and give us some straight answers soon. miyazaki Mar 2019 #4
Kick red dog 1 Mar 2019 #6
Bravo Rep. Schiff! smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #9
So, they're saying that criticizing a President is why someone should resign FakeNoose Mar 2019 #10

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
1. Also the post meeting lies
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 04:13 PM
Mar 2019

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.

renate

(13,776 posts)
2. What if Democrats just refused to engage with his bullshit?
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 04:48 PM
Mar 2019

1. Once you start to play defense, you’ve lost, politically.

2. Responding to his bullshit gets his bullshit twice as much attention.

If it comes from Fox or from Trump, it’s bullshit and should be 100% ignored.

Schiff’s response is a masterpiece. It’s just that Trump’s whining should be ignored by anyone who doesn’t do as good a job.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
5. I hear people suggest this over the past two years
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 05:27 PM
Mar 2019

but everyone in the media ignores it when they should be ignoring him.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
8. I have been one of those people
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 06:29 PM
Mar 2019

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"!!

miyazaki

(2,240 posts)
4. Mueller better talk and give us some straight answers soon.
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 05:25 PM
Mar 2019

There would be heads on sticks if this charade played out in some other distant time and place.

red dog 1

(27,797 posts)
6. Kick
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 06:22 PM
Mar 2019

Donald Trump, "who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from" White House!

FakeNoose

(32,634 posts)
10. So, they're saying that criticizing a President is why someone should resign
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 06:39 PM
Mar 2019

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!

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