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Democrats Say the Darndest Things – Adam Schiff Edition

Adam Bennett Schiff, the congressman representing the 30th Congressional District of California, is beside himself because Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has removed Schiff from the House Intelligence Committee. Like a true socialist democrat, Schiff is acting as if his past conduct while serving as the intelligence committee chairman during the 116th and 117th Congresses played no role in his ouster. However, McCarthy has made it abundantly clear that Schiff was removed from this particular committee for being dishonest with the American people. Schiff used the inherent secrecy of the intelligence committee to leak and lie to the press about “Russian collusion” between then candidate Donald Trump and the Russians. He should accept the consequences of his abuse of power, and shut up about it. Instead, Schiff is all over cable news and social media seeking commiseration companions and campaign cash.   

Schiff exploited the necessary secretiveness of the House Intelligence Committee to make misleading or false statements about former President Donald J. Trump. Using the cover of “I cannot go into greater specifics due to national security concerns”, or the “ongoing investigation” hogwash, Schiff peddled his falsehoods to every liberal news channel. No voice was given to counterpoints. Instead, any individual that stepped forward with information that contradicted the Schiff show, was immediately dismissed as a Trump ally trying to conceal the truth from the American people.

How many times did Adam Schiff say there was “plenty of evidence of Russian collusion”?  How many times between 2015 and 2020 did Adam Schiff claim he had seen “more than circumstantial evidence” of a Trump-Putin collusion conspiracy?  Even Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, who is no fan of Trump, said, “I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election.”

Undeterred because he wasn’t seeking the truth, Schiff launched a two-year committee investigation into what is now known as the Russia collusion hoax. Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) had this to say about it. “For over two years, Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, trumpeted false claims of collusion to anyone and everyone who would listen. Without fact and without merit, he claimed there was “clear evidence of collusion.” There was “evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion,” he crowed, and not just any evidence — “ample evidence” and “direct evidence.” 

According to Gaetz, “Adam Schiff knew there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but kept the fiction alive, peppering the media with wild and baseless accusations, and keeping “official Washington” in a rapturous anti-Trump frenzy for nearly two years.” Most Republicans now realize this is the truth – even the never Trump sect within the GOP. Love him or hate him, what Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, and the rest of the Democrats did to President Trump, with strong assistance from the liberal press and social media networks, was nothing short of a well-orchestrated coup d’état.  The left did everything they could to overthrow the Trump presidency, and to prohibit him from running for office ever again.  

When the New York Post ran its explosive Hunter Biden laptop story three weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election, Adam Schiff was quick to appear on numerous liberal state news shows that fill the line-up at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. All the democrats sang in unison – Russia, Russia, Russia!  Appearing with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Schiff pushed back against any claim that content recovered from the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic. “We know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin. That’s been clear for well over a year now that they’ve been pushing this false narrative about the vice president and his son,” Schiff told Blitzer.

The FBI took possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop ten months prior to the New York Post article on the Laptop from Hell. The FBI knew, without a doubt, that the laptop and it’s recovered hard drive content was 100% authentic. Adam Schiff, as the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, knew that the laptop was not part of any Russian misinformation campaign coming out of the Kremlin.  Adam Schiff knew the truth, and lied about it over and over again. Joe Biden lied about it too. The FBI engaged in a lie of omission by not correcting the record promptly. And the so called 51 national security agents, including James Clapper, had to have known they were providing cover for a man that was guilty of most everything they all wrongfully accused Trump of being and doing over the past five years.

The word treasonous gets thrown around a lot, but damn!  Every person involved in the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop should be punished. Adam Schiff should face impeachment. He has proven himself a despicable man unfit for any public office to include that of a U.S. Senator; which he announced he’s running for in 2024. It is doubtful there are enough California voters to stand against Schiff, but we still have hope.

In October 2020, then Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe had this to say about Adam Schiff’s ongoing lying to the American people in an effort to interfere in the 2020 elections. 

“Let me be clear: The intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that, and we have shared no intelligence with Chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden’s laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign. It is simply not true.”

Ratcliffe continued, “Apparently, Chairman Schiff wants anything against his preferred political candidate deemed as not real and is using or attempting to use the intelligence community to say there’s nothing to see here. Don’t drag the intelligence community into this. Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”

John Ratcliffe was correct. Adam Schiff knowingly lied. Schiff pulled the intelligence community down into the gutter with him. Consequently, the United States now has a corrupt, compromised president, and our national security and treasure is in jeopardy as a result. For the sake of justice and the rule of law, Adam Schiff must be punished.  He should be impeached.

For more information about the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, visit https://intelligence.house.gov .

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