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2019-10-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-
WSJ Columnist Reveals The Move Adam Schiff Made That Made A GOP Congresswoman's Jaw Drop
[Townhall] It’s a circus. House Democrats are charging headlong into this impeachment business against President Donald Trump, a shamelessly naked political spectacle in which they’re trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election. They tried to get him on Russian collusion. They couldn’t. Now, they’re using this whistleblower report that alleged in a July phone call that Trump threatened to withhold military aid from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unless he opened a corruption probe into Hunter Biden. The son of the former vice president was on the board of an energy company making $50,000/month while his father, Joe Biden, was in office. Hunter has zero experience in the energy sector. It was a gross conflict of interest issue, and the allegation that he was just there to sell access to the higher echelons of America’s political class hasn’t really been dispelled.

The whistleblower is a registered Democrat, a reported CIA agent, and someone who had worked with a 2020 Democratic candidate. They were also on the National Security Council staff for the Obama White House. This person does not have first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing. It’s all second-hand sourced, which explains the numerous errors. Adam Schiff’s staff was in contact with this person, and Schiff knew of the contents of the report before it was formally filed. Yeah, this isn’t a biased political hit job in the slightest, right? The Trump White House released a transcript of the Trump-Zelensky phone call, which petty much torpedoed the juicy allegations lobbed by Democrats, but that’s not going to stop this impeachment push. This whole effort is mostly being done behind closed doors. The impeachment of a president is very much a public affair. That’s precisely what the Democrats don’t want.

The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel has a new book about the anti-Trump Deep State, but her Potomac Watch column this week detailed the absurd rule High Chancellor of Impeachment Adam Schiff has instituted that made Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-NY) jaw drop; Stefanik sits on the House Intelligence Committee.

It’s pretty simple. Democrats will summarize all of the interviews conducted relating to this unofficial Trump impeachment into one page‐which can only be read with a Democratic staffer present. Schiff, whom Strassel calls "Lord High Impeacher," is withholding documents as well. It’s all part of the larger scheme: controlling the narrative. Strassel notes how Democrats learned from their lessons regarding Trump-Russia collusion, and how the various open hearings embarrassed them and tore huge holes into the narrative because it was trash to begin with. They’re not making the same mistake twice; optics be damned (via WSJ):
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-26 02:43|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top

#1 I wonder if the Brits would let us borrow the Tower of London for this.
Posted by Matt 2019-10-26 10:15||   2019-10-26 10:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Total Shitshow.

Never underestimate our political class. I didn't think they could go lower than "Orangeman = Boris Badenov" -- and then they outdid themselves with the Kavanaugh Shitshow.

I thought Kavanaugh was the ne plus ultra -- and then they staged their outlandish Covington Kids = Hitlerjugend Shitshow.

And now we have a bad parody of a Star Chamber, a Kangaroo Court and a Don Adams/Get Smart Lafftrack Yukkfest. The Mother of All Shitshows.

... until the next one.

To hell with these morons.
Posted by Lex 2019-10-26 12:34||   2019-10-26 12:34|| Front Page Top

#3 The thing that amazes me is all these suits and pants suits get these high levels of salaries for producing absolutely nothing and being total parasites.

If they were all gone to the four winds tomorrow, the world would be a better place.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-10-26 13:30||   2019-10-26 13:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh yeah? What about all those five-star restaurants and bespoke tailors in DC? What happens to them?
Posted by Matt 2019-10-26 14:03||   2019-10-26 14:03|| Front Page Top

#5 They go back to Iran.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-26 18:03||   2019-10-26 18:03|| Front Page Top

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