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Adam Schiff Closing Argument: Russia Carried out ‘Coup’ Against U.S. By Manipulating Trump

[BREITBART] Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff

...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
(D-CA) claimed on the Senate floor Friday afternoon that Russia had carried out a propaganda "coup" by manipulating President Donald Trump
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Schiff, delivering the closing address on the third day of House Democrats’ opening argument on the first article of impeachment, claimed that Russia had done a "psychological profile" of Trump and manipulated him into believing Russian intelligence.

Drawing selectively from the president’s past statements, Schiff claimed that Trump believed Russia’s claims that Ukraine had interfered with the 2016 presidential election, ignoring U.S. intelligence agencies’ assessments.

In fact, Trump has acknowledged for years that Russia "meddled" in the last presidential election, explicitly saying that he accepted the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies, though he says he did not think Russia’s intervention affected the outcome, and he also has long believed that "others" also attempted to influence the outcome.

Schiff portrayed Trump as a puppet being controlled by Russia: "It’s not just a propaganda coup, it’s not just the undermining of our agencies. It’s also that the buy-in to that propaganda meant that Ukraine wasn’t going to get money to fight the Russians. I mean, that’s one hell of a Russian intelligence coup. ... Has there ever been such a coup? I would submit to you that in the entire length of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had no such success."

In fact, Trump provided, and has continued to provide lethal military aid to Ukraine, unlike President Barack Obama
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Going further, Schiff accused Trump of "betrayal" of his country, playing a debunked video clip of then-candidate Trump allegedly inviting Russia to interfere in the presidential election (Trump was joking at a presser).

Schiff urged the Senate to remove Trump from office because of the risk of having a president so easily manipulated, and who would "coerce an ally" to investigate a political opponent.

"You cannot leave a man like that in office."

Posted by Fred 2020-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 OH WELL! Look is in charge now, Shiffty.

Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2020-01-25 00:26|| 2020-01-25 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 He's so controlled by the Russians that he has thwarted them at every opportunity!

Pencil-neck lives in an alternate reality.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-01-25 00:27|| 2020-01-25 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 He's so controlled by the Russians that he has thwarted them at every opportunity!

That just shows you how deep the game is being played. Wheels within wheels, my brother. Now pass me the bong!

Posted by SteveS 2020-01-25 00:38|| 2020-01-25 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 the buy-in to that propaganda meant that Ukraine wasn’t going to get money to fight the Russians

You deluded sack of shit. Your president DENIED AID to the UKRAINIANS.

TRUMP PROVIDED JAVELIN ANTI-TANK MISSILES to the Ukrainians.

Schifferbrains' head is so far up his are that he is now accusing OrangeMan of pursuing the Ukrainian arms policy that Zero pursued. He has it exactly backwards.

God protect us from this Mad Hatter and his fellow loons.

We are truly through the Looking Glass with these insufferable assholes.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-25 02:22|| 2020-01-25 02:22|| Front Page Top

#5 You can laugh all you want. They really believe in this stuff.

Of course we know it's a pile of crap, but they are 100% bought in to this. In their movie, they are the heroes bravely resisting a dictator. A dictator whose decisions are regularly overruled by judges. But it doesn't matter. What matters is that they were right the whole time, Trump is null and void, and Pence needs to appoint Hillary as Secretary of State and then resign after Trump is removed. THAT will bring things to rights.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-01-25 02:24|| 2020-01-25 02:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Brennan had the assets and analytical expertise to craft an evil Russian cover story and that is precisely what he did.

Had Clinton been elected, none of this would be taking place.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-25 02:32|| 2020-01-25 02:32|| Front Page Top

#7 'Erb, I'm NOT LAUGHING. This is an absolute disaster for our Republic and our form of government.

We don't have a parliamentary system. We can't vote "No confidence" and then re-form the government by calling elections. In their moronic zeal, these fools have created a precedent that will bring us to ruin.

It's not funny anymore. Deadly serious.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-25 02:32|| 2020-01-25 02:32|| Front Page Top

#8 There gotta be consequences, or else.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-25 03:17|| 2020-01-25 03:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Even if the Russian accusation was true; Trump surely double crossed the Russians by making American great again.

Posted by Airandee 2020-01-25 06:10|| 2020-01-25 06:10|| Front Page Top

#10 You can laugh all you want. They really believe in this stuff.

So did the conspirators who murdered Caesar. It's all self rationalization. They forget how it all came out in the end, them dead, and Augustus operating the place with far more powers than Caesar ever had.

Posted by Procopius2K 2020-01-25 07:01|| 2020-01-25 07:01|| Front Page Top

#11 ...claimed that Russia had done a "psychological profile" of Trump and manipulated him into believing Russian intelligence.

How pathological of a liar must you be to come up with shit like this?

Posted by Raj 2020-01-25 07:43|| 2020-01-25 07:43|| Front Page Top

#12 it's not about the truth. it's about what they can get their media allies to report and therefore get a good portion of the public to believe.

it never was about truth.

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-01-25 09:02|| 2020-01-25 09:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Have to go along with Bob at #12 on that one.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-25 09:31|| 2020-01-25 09:31|| Front Page Top

#14 First control the MSM and then do away with that pesky Constitution and Bill of Rights on your way to a totalitarian state...

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -- Joseph Goebbels

Posted by magpie 2020-01-25 10:11|| 2020-01-25 10:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Listen To Adam Schiff Collude With Russians To Get Dirt On Trump in a comic prank set-up.

Ah, it seems so long ago and just one of so many cooked up attempts by the Dem Skunk Works to take down DJT. Roadrunner cartoon all over again.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-01-25 10:25|| 2020-01-25 10:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Am I losing my mind?

I could swear that there was a multi-year investigation by a Special Prosecutor on just this topic his name was Miller or Muller or Mueller or something like that and couldn't find a single thing to nail Trump on.

I'm starting to get worried that the next step in this power grab aka coup involves triggers being pulled.

Posted by AlanC 2020-01-25 10:45|| 2020-01-25 10:45|| Front Page Top

#17 #16 AlanC:

(a) "Am I losing my mind?"

No.

(b) "I'm starting to get worried that the next step in this power grab aka coup involves triggers being pulled."

Me, too - keep your powder dry and stock up on ammo.

Posted by Barbara 2020-01-25 11:39|| 2020-01-25 11:39|| Front Page Top

#18 What's the over/under that his most admired M*A*S*H character was Col. Flagg?

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-01-25 20:33|| 2020-01-25 20:33|| Front Page Top

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