LOS ANGELES.–Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who worked feverishly on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee to charge 78-year-old President Donald Trump with various crimes, said he urged President Joe Biden not to issue blanket pardons to members of the committee. While Schiff speaks for himself, his statements are a conspicuous spokesscreen, refuting anyone in the Trump White House, including59-year-old incoming Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi, that would hold members accountable for egregious political bias in their investigation. Schiff says he proud of the work he did in the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, just like he was when he accused Trump in 2016 of Russian collusion, going so far to say he had his own proof. Schiff was during Trump’s first term one of the most aggressive Democrats, seeking to hold Trump accountable for any allegations pushed by Democrats.
Schiff says he doesn’t want a preemptive pardon by Biden because he thinks it’s a partial admission of guilt for using his government position of head of the House Intelligence Committee to accuse Trump of Russian collusion and a variety of other crimes. “I don’t know what the Trump administration will do, but it’s for a couples of reasons,” Schiff said why he doesn’t want a preemptive pardon. “First, those of us on the committee are very proud of the work we did. We were doing vital quintessential oversight of a violent attack on the Capitol,” Schiff said. “It’s unnecessary.” Schiff and others on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, including 58-year-old former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) and 46-year-old former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Il.), went beyond any facts collected by the committee to say Trump was guilty of planning, organizing and participating in the riots.
If the facts eventually transmitted to 72-year-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland were skewed in any way to make Trump look guilty, by cooking the books for political reasons, then they’re all guilty of fraud. All members know that the Committee was formed after the failed impeachment attempt Feb. 13, 2021, when the Senate acquitted Trump of “incitement of insurrection.” That didn’t stop Schiff, Cheney, Kinzinger and others of accusing Trump of planning, organizing and executing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Democrats and the two Republicans on the Committed refer to the insurrectionists as “Trump supporters.” No one on the Committee have any facts that Trump organized, planned and participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Democrats called the Capitol riots and insurrection so they could use Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from running for president.
Democrats and the press had a committed strategy of using all government agencies to charge Trump with various felonies to disqualify him from running for president in 2024. Their strategy backfired with voters concluding that Democrats and the press case against Trump was politically motivated, even two cases in New York charging Trump with financial crimes with property evaluations and payments in 2016 to a porn queen named Stormy Daniels. Schiff doesn’t want a preemptive pardon because he doesn’t want the accusation that he was part of a Democrat conspiracy to stop Trump from running for president. “But second, the precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the way out of an of an administration, I this is a precedent we don’t want to set,” Schiff said, speaking for himself. Schiff wants to sound righteous, but he’s guilty as sin.
Schiff said he communicated to 82-year-old President Joe Biden the concern over issuing blanket, preemptive pardons. “I’ve communicated it both publicly and privately to President Biden,” Schiff said. When you look at Schiff’s record since Trump was accused by 64-year-old former FBI Director James Comey of Russian collusion in 2016, Schiff was convinced that Trump was guilty, but, more importantly, that charging Trump was essential to remove him from office. When Trump fired Comey May 8, 2017, Schiff screamed the loudest for a Special Counsel to investigate Trump’s alleged Russian collusion. Schiff got all his facts about Trump’s alleged Russian collusion from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose paid opposition research AKA The Steele Dossier, said Trump had inappropriate ties to the Kremlin, serving as a “Putin puppet.”
When 59-year-old Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel, Mueller spent 22-months and $40 million, with the DOJ’s 66-year-old best prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, investigating Trump. Mueller concluded that Trump has no inappropriate ties to Russia March 23, 2019. Yet that didn’t stop Schiff and other Democrats from insisting Trump was a Russian asset. When Jan. 6 happened, Democrat and the press thought they had a smoking gun charging Trump with trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Even after Trump was acquitted in the U.S. Senate Feb. 13, 2021, Democrats and the press insisted Trump was guilty, forming the Jan. 6 House committee. So Schiff and other partisan Democrats and Republicans are guilty of fabricating fake probable cause that Trump was involved in Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
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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. .
