Posted on 12/27/2017 11:02:33 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Two months ago, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, who is leading the House Democrats’ inquisition of President Trump, said it “still remains to be seen” whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in its interference in the 2016 election.
Then on Dec. 10, the congressman from California went in a different direction.
“We do know this,” the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said on CNN, a frequent Schiff host. “The Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help. The Russians gave help and the president made full use of that help, and that is pretty damning, whether it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt of conspiracy or not.”
Whether the Russian hacking and release of thousands of Democratic Party emails amount to acceptance of help for the Trump campaign is up for debate. The emails, and those that WikiLeaks released later from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s hacked account, were publicly available and reported by many news websites.
But Mr. Schiff’s acknowledgment that collusion “still remains to be seen” shows that nearly a year after the House intelligence panel began its investigation, Democrats are left with a relatively small list of Trump campaign-Russia contacts on which to base a grand conspiracy.
The roster of contacts, some of them apparently innocuous, is a far cry from charges in the infamous Russia-Trump dossier. Paid with funds from the Democratic Party, writer Christopher Steele, a former British spy, told of a supposed “extensive conspiracy between Trump’s campaign team and the Kremlin.”
Mr. Schiff embraced the dossier from the moment the committee kicked off a public hearing in March with then-FBI Director James B. Comey and National Security Agency chief Adm. Mike Rogers.
Mr. Schiff eagerly read Mr. Steele’s felony accusations into the record. Those charges remain unproven
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They’re hoping Trump axes Mueller. No hope of finding collusion and it’s boomeranging back on them. They hope Trump makes a political error and shuts down Mueller, implying they were going to find something.
Big black eye for DOJ and FBI on this.
Flynn should challenge the plea deal he made. Mueller hid information favorable to his defense.
They’ve also pivoted from saying it was collusion to say it was all about the ‘cover-up.’ Not committing any crime, but lying about it nevertheless. That’s what Flynn pled guilty to already. A ‘process crime.’
It still remains to be seen if Schiff has a brain or not. Even-money is on the NOT.
Or, in the alternative, whether his brain is still up his ass. Even money is on YES. If true, then we rename him Adam “Shitforbrains”. I like telling the truth.
Latest from rep. Adam B. Schiff “ We know this: the Russians knew there was a US presidential election; the Trump campaign was aware of this.”
Next: “There is a country named Russia; Baron Trump knows this.”
In fact it is becoming more clear with facts and evidence that it is the loudest accusers are the the ones guilty of not only this but far, far more illegal conduct. Collusion is NOT a crime in the first place so investigating something that is not a crime is nothing but slander.
Great article on how the whole “collusion” story has blown up in Schiff-for-brain’s face. Don’t however think that means he and Mueller have thrown in the towel on their other Trumped up charges like Obstruction. They need those to distract from the real obstruction and other crimes that have taken place in the DOJ etc.
Thanks Oshkalaboomboom.
The biggest danger to the press is not Donald Trump. It is the press itself
Flopping Aces | 12-28-17 | DrJohn
Posted on 12/28/2017 10:29:10 AM PST by Starman417
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