Speaking on NBC’s “Face the Nation” with Chuck Todd, 68-year-old lead impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) continued to rip 73-year-old President Donald Trump over a Tweet, saying Schiff has not “paid a price.” Speaking to the anti-Trump Chuck Todd, Schiff said he felt threatened by the president, when Trump said nothing more than talking about the Schiff’s personal vendetta to get the president. When Trump talks about Schiff paying a price, he’s referring to the consequences of conspiring against a duly elected president to oust him from office. Trump views Schiff in the same way as former FBI Director James Comey, who authorized an illegal counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his campaign, lying to the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to obtain warrants to wiretap Trump officials in the 2016 campaign.
Comey denied spying on Trump, insisting he had “probable cause” to investigate Trump and his campaign for alleged Russian collusion. Like Comey, Trump believes Schiff took the same liberties, covertly working with a so-called “whistleblower” to fabricate charges to impeach the president. When the Mueller Report was released March 23, 2019, it cleared the president or anyone in his campaign of ties with Moscow to win the 2016 election. Instead of accepting the results, Schiff and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerold Nalder (D-N.Y.) spent months combing through the Mueller Report to find anything impeachable. Suddenly, Sept. 25, Schiff announces a “whistleblower” complaint accusing Trump of coercing 40-year-old Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky to dig up dirt on 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden and his 50-year-old son, Hunter.
Schiff said that he had zero contact with the “whistleblower” before he released his complaint Sept. 25, 2019. One week later, Schiff admitted Oct. 2, 2019 his office did have contact with the “whistleblower” before the complaint was released. Schiff changed his story when caught red handed, prompting concerns that he fabricated the complaint himself to get Trump impeached. No one has heard from the “whistleblower,” not getting the real story on who crafted the complaint or, more importantly, whether Schiff concocted it. That’s the context in which Trump asks if Schiff has “paid a price,” for fabricating evidence against the president, not, whether he’s threatening the congressman with unknown repercussions. Yet Todd bated a willing Schiff into saying Trump threatened him. “Do you take that as a threat,” Todd asked. “I think it’s intended to be,” Schiff replied to Todd.
Todd and other members of the anti-Trump press aren’t interested in what really happened with the “whistleblower,” just like they don’t want to know the egregious corruption at the Department of Justice, FBI and National Security Agence [NSA], all involved in illegally investigating Trump and his campaign. Todd would never question whether or not Schiff helped write the “whistleblower” complaint. When U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) finishes his investigation for Atty. Gen. William Barr about the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation against Trump and his campaign, Todd won’t report on the results it in implicates FBI wrongdoing. Like Schiff, Todd’s committed to attacking the president, regardless of the facts. If Schiff’s found to be culpable in a cover-up, fabricating the “whistleblower” complain tto get Trump impeached, Todd wouldn’t report on it.
Trump didn’t “threaten” Schiff, he pointed out, like Comey and others now fired at the FBI, Schiff hasn’t been exposed for his extreme prejudice against the president. “The President has a tendency to say things that seem threatening to people . . . .He really ought to get a grip and be a little more presidential,” said House impeachment manager Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.).. Lofgren also has no interest in hearing that U.S. government officials conspired to sabotage the Trump campaign, nor does she want to hear that Schiff helped prepare the “whistleblower” complaint. Lofgren’s statement actually exposes her extreme prejudice toward Trump, not wanting to hear anything exculpatory, especially about her fellow Democrats. Lofgren know Trump didn’t threaten Schiff, he simply pointed out that if Schiff played dirty pool to get Trump, he should pay a price for his calculated subterfuge.
Democrats think that having former National Security Adviser John Bolton testify would help their case against Trump. They know Bolton has an ax to grind against Trump because of his unceremonious dismissal Sept. 10, 2019. Even if Bolton testified that Trump withheld funds from Ukraine in exchange for information on the Bidens, his sworn testimony wouldn’t prove Trump’s motive. While the media talks about Joe Biden, there’s far more evidence Trump was interested in Hunter. Last time anyone checked, Hunter’s not running for elective office, would be fair game. Trump detractors in the media want to emphasize Trump seeking info on Joe but Trump was really more focused on Hunter. Hunter, after all, made millions on Burisma Holdings’s board, a job he got through his father. Democrats can’t prove that Trump tried to influence the 2020 presidential election.
