Filing a motion to have 62-year-old Rep. Adam Schiff (R-Calif.) expelled from Congress, Rep. Anna Puulin Luna (R-Fl..) called for Schiff’s removal, after Speical Counsel John Durham (R-Conn.) released his final 300-page report on the origin of the FBI’s 2016 counterintelligence investigation into 76-year-old former President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin. Durham’s report validates FBI Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s Dec. 9, 2019 report that said the FBI breached protocol and standard procedures opening up a counterintelligence investigation into Trump. Durham was appointed as Special Counsel before former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr resigned Dec. 23, 2020. Barr tasked Durham to find out the origin of former FBI Director James Comey’s 2016 counterintelligence investigation of Trump and his campaign. Durham concluded the FBI did not have probable cause.
Durham’s investigation puts a dark cloud over the years of unfounded allegations about Trump’s ties to the Kremlin, something, according to Luna, was promoted daily by Schiff, then Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Luna said Schiff was the leading House member promoting the Russian hoax, leaking daily fake stories to the New York Times and Washington Post about Trump’s fake ties to Kremlin. Schiff pushed hard after Trump fired Comey May 9, 2017, for his role in leading fakes stories about Russian ties to the press. Schiff pushed hard for former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint Special Counsel 78-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Schiff and Mueller knew at the time, according to the Durham’s report, that Comey did not have probable cause to open up a counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow.
Mueller opened up his Special Counsel investigation knowing that former CIA Director John Brennan and Comey had no probable cause to investigate Trump and 2016 his campaign. Schiff pushed hard to investigate Trump in 2016 hoping it would discredit his campaign and help former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton get elected president. Mueller started his investigation May 17, 2017, knowing he did not have, according to Duhram, adequate predicate or probable cause to investigative Trump. Yet Mueller spent 22-months and $40 million to conclude March 23, 2029 that Trump and his 2016 did not conspire with the Kremlin to win the 2016 presidential. Schiff was dumbfounded by Mueller’s conclusions, insisting March 28, 2019 he had proof that Trump colluded with the Kremlin. Luna called for Schiff’s removal from Congress for all his lies about Russian collusion.
Schiff announced his run for 89-year-old Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) Senate sea, announcing she would not run in 2024. Luna wants Schiff to pay a price for breaching the public trust promoting the Russian hoax as House Intelligence Committee Chairman. Durham’s report mirrors IG Michael Horowitz’s conclusions that the FBI, under Comey, did not following proper procedures before opening up a counterintelligence investigation. “He used his position on House Intelligence to push a lie that cost American taxpayers millions of dollars and abused the trust place in him as Chairma,” Luna said. “The Durham Report makes clear that the Russian Collusion was a lie from day one and Schiff knowingly used his position in an attempt to divide our country,” Luna said. Schiff wants to be rewarded for going after Trump as House Intelligence Chairman.
Schiff played an influential part in Trump’s two impeachment trials, one for Ukraine coercions and the other for incitement of insurrection. Both impeachments failed in the U.S. Senate. Schiff was 83-year-old former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) chief anti-Trump lieutenant in Congress, working day and night to get Trump removed from office. Durham’s Report is frustrating for Republicans or anyone who cares about the abuse of power at the FBI and Congress to target a presidential candidate and U.S. president. I’m convinced when this dark chapter of our history is written, it will reflect that those Republican members who laced the courage to stand up to the most unethical president in U.S. history, Donald Trump, consoled themselves by attacking thouse that did,” Schiff told MSNBC May 17. Schiff denies his role in spreading lies to the press about Trump’s ties to Russia.
Doubtful that Luna will get Schiff tossed out of Congress, knowing the hatred among Democrats against the former president. As Schiff said yesterday, he should be praised for spreading Russian lies about Trump because he deserved it for his unethical practices. Schiff didn’t deny that he spread falsehoods about Trump to get him removed from office. “Durham spends four years trying to prove his deep state conspiracy theory that Trum kep tell his base was going to be proven,” Schiff said. “The whole thing, of course, was a big bust,” Schiff said, showing how he would never admit spreading the Russian conspiracy hoax. Schiff didin’t tell MSNBC that he has proof of Trump’s Russian ties because he has none. Luna faces an uphill battle get Schiff to pay any price for leaking fake intel to the press about Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin. He’s running for Senate instead.
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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.