Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) slammed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for keeping former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) off the House Intel Committee and keeping Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) off the House Foreign Relations Committee. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blocked Rep. Paul Gossar (R-Az.) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from serving on their committees for controversial statements. Whether Spartz recognizes or not, McCarthy has a right to keep Schiff far removed the House Intel Committee, a place since 2018, he abused his Article 1 authority to use the committee to go after 76-year-old former President Donald Trump. During the height of the Special Counsel Mueller investigation, Schiff used his committee to corroborate claims that Trump colluded with the Kremlin to win the 20016.
No one in Congress was more partisan and biased against Trump than Schiff, using the Intel Committee to corroborate the profusion of fake news stories, largely leaked by Schiff, to the New York Times and Washington Post. Schiff routinely gave the Times and Post fake information about Trump’s ties to the Kremlin. Schiff had no problems doing anything possible to influence tthe outcome of the Mueller investigation. “As I spoke against it on the House floor two years ago, I will not support this charade again,” Spartz said. “Speaker McCarthy needs to stop ‘bread and circuses’in Congress and start governing for change,” Spartz said. Spartz forgets Pelosi’s blackballing of Gosar and Taylor-Greene for less legitimate reasons. How could any Republican ignore how Schiff abused his Article 1 authority to use he House Intelligence Committee to go after Trump.
Even after 78-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller delivered his final report March 23, 2019 disappointing Democrats, Schiff insisted he had all the intel needed to convict Trump of colluding with the Russian Federation. Leaking fake intel with the Times and Post for nearly two years, Schiff should have been wrung up on ethical charges for using his committee to build a fake case against Trump. Schiff told the press repeatedly he had categorical proof that Trump conspired with 70-year-old President Russian President Vladimir Putin to elect Trump in 2016. Schiff never accepted Trump’s presidency, using his authority on the Intel Committee to build a case for impeachment. Schiff was the most vociferous Democrat demanding that an unnamed whistleblower in the State Department said Trump tried to blackmail Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating 80-year-old President Joe Biden.
No one at the time understood Biden’s corrupt relations with Ukraine, landing his son Hunter an $83,000 a month job, along with his friend Devon Archer, on a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company board. Biden’s irrational attachment to Ukraine begins to make sense knowing his wheeling-and-dealing in Ukraine while serving as former President Barack Obama’s Vice President. Can you imagine, Biden headed Biden’s Ukraine corruption task force and proceeded to collect millions for his son and his brother Jim Biden? Yet Biden’s past involvement is Ukraine was never questioned in why he joined Ukraine’s war against the Kremlin. Biden ended decades of cooperative relations with Russia to support the most corrupt country in Europe, seeking EU and NATO membership. Biden’s foreign policy wrecked U.S.-Russian relations, supplying Ukraine unlimited cash-and-weapons.
So, when Spartz criticizes McCarthy for keeping Schiff far away from the House Intel Committee, it’s for good reason, because Schiff will continue supplying the New York Times and Washington Post fake news stories. Schiff’s only concern is helping corrupt President Joe Biden get reelected in 2024. Where was Spartz when Schiff ran the House Intel Committee like his private Democrat Mickey Mouse Club. No one in Congress leaked more to the Times and Post than Schiff once he became House Intel Chairman. Only 63-year-old former FBI Director James Comey may have exceeded Schiff in leaking fake intel to the Times and Post. Yet when Trump finally fired Comey May 8, 2017, Pelosi and Schiff went crazy, screaming obstruction of justice, demanding a Special Counsel to investigate Trump. Spartz showed she’s closely aligned with Democrats ripping McCarthy.
McCarthy should stick to his guns when it comes to keeping Schiff off the House Intel Committee for egregious abuse of his Article 1 authority. When it comes to Rep. Ilhan Omar, McCarthy has less of a case to keep her off the House Foreign Relations Committee. When it comes who’s more dangerous to the U.S. Congress, clearly Schiff has committed egregious abuses all with Pelosi’s blessings, anything to retaliate against Trump. “Two wrongs do not make a right,” Spartz said, with regard to McCarthy’s decision of keep Schiff away from the Intel Committee. Spartz refuses to see the damage done to Congress by Schiff’s leadership on the Intel Committee. McCarthy should stick to his guns to keep Schiff away from any place of influence knowing how he abused his authority in the House Intel Committee. Spartz needs to look at the facts, not her vendetta with McCarthy.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
