Here's How Schiff Responds to a Liberal Law Professor Disagreeing With His Impeachment Take

Townhall.com ^ | 1/19/2020 | beth baumann

[bitt]

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Sunday slammed liberal law professor Alan Dershowitz for his stance on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

Although Dershowitz voted for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Harvard Law professor is taking part in President Trump's legal defense. Dershowitz's responsibility will be to explain how the Democrats' articles of impeachment fail to meet the Constitutional criteria of "treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors."

"The facts aren't seriously contested. The president withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to an alley at war with Russia, withheld a White House meeting that the president of Ukraine desperately sought to establish with his country and with his adversaries the support of the United States in order to coerce Ukraine into helping him cheat in the next election," Schiff told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.

The House Intelligence Committee Chairman said the White House is shifting its strategy because the "facts can't be contested." Schiff specifically cited the Trump administration's claim that the president can't be impeached on the two articles the House set forth: obstruction of justice and abuse of power.

Stephanopoulos quoted Dershowitz's previous statement that even if abuse of power could be proven, that isn't an impeachment offense.

Schiff disagreed.

"That's the argument you have to make if the facts are so dead set against you," he replied. "...You have to rely on this argument that even if he abused his office in this horrendous way that it's not impeachable. You had to go so far out of the mainstream to find someone to make that argument. You had to leave the realm of constitutional law scholars and go to criminal defense lawyers."

[bitt]

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[PIF]

military aid to an alley at war with Russia ...

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next Russia takes on a street ...

[Bob434]

lying schiff- spin spin spin- nothing he says is credible- news stations shoudl preface their reporting on him with:

“What follows is a pack of lies- but we present it to you anyways, because we thought you might need a good laugh today”

[sauropod]

We should start following Schiff around with posters that have a photograph of Schiff and Ed Buck at the same meeting on them.

Saw it earlier today on the forum.

[GoldenPup]

What a Big Basket of Bullshit!

[blueunicorn6]

Didn’t Schiff and family take money from the Ukrainians?

Isn’t this whole impeachment just a front to try and keep federal law enforcement from investigating and prosecuting Democrat thieves like Schiff?

[mkmensinger]

Schiff vs Dersh ...that’s a bit like Curly of the Three Stooges arguing physics with Einstein.

[BenLurkin]

At the risk of repeating myself, I’m going to repeat myself...https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3809386/posts?page=13#13

[elpadre]

The “facts” are with the President. And another interesting fact is that by law the President is required to expend the funds within the fiscal year. This he did.

[elpadre]

The “facts” are with the President. And another interesting fact is that by law the President is required to expend the funds within the fiscal year. This he did.

[COUNTrecount]

[Political Junkie Too]

...The president... withheld a White House meeting that the president of Ukraine desperately sought... "That's the argument you have to make if the facts are so dead set against you," he replied. "...You have to rely on this argument that even if he abused his office in this horrendous way that it's not impeachable.

Oh, the horror!

President Trump is being impeached for the "horrendous" high crime of not immediately taking a meeting?

-PJ

[Steve_Seattle]

"The president withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to an alley at war with Russia, withheld a White House meeting that the president of Ukraine desperately sought to establish with his country and with his adversaries the support of the United States in order to coerce Ukraine into helping him cheat in the next election."

This guy can't open his mouth without lying. What an utterly repulsive person he is.

[sauropod]

Is that little Teddy Liu too?

[Dilbert San Diego]

What’s with the strange bowties?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Completely unmentioned anywhere:

1: The Javelin missiles already in Ukraine, as part of the purchase agreement, are stored hundreds of miles away from where there is actual fighting, in the eastern and southeastern part of the country. That of course does not mean that they could not transferred to the east in a matter of hours by truck. Certainly they can.

2: NOT A SINGLE ONE has been fired other than for demo / instructional purposes.

If it matters.

[DennisR]

Schiff is...how should I put it mildly...CREEPY!

[rightwingcrazy]

"That's the argument you have to make if the facts are so dead set against you," he replied. "...You have to rely on this argument that even if he abused his office in this horrendous way that it's not impeachable. You had to go so far out of the mainstream to find someone to make that argument. You had to leave the realm of constitutional law scholars and go to criminal defense lawyers."

For some reason, reading this, a song popped into my head:
James Brown - Talking Loud and Saying Nothing

The point is too dark to fill; You say I can't; You're phony, you're phony; I said, I said, you're phony; I said you're phony; I said you're phony; OH!

[RegulatorCountry]

Weren’t the three in the middle killed in a helicopter crash?