Republicans in the House failed to get enough votes to censure 62-year-old Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for his role in promoting the Russian hoax, even after 78-year-old Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-months and $40 million probe, couldn’t find a link between 77-year-old former President Donald Trump and the Kremlin. Democrats put all their faith in Mueller May 17, 2017, after former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein appointed him to investigate Trump’s allege ties to Russia. Schiff was the House’s leading voice of the Mueller investigation, until Mueller published his final 400-page report, unable to find a link between the Trump campaign and Moscow in the 2016 presidential election. Schiff insisted he had conclusive proof that Trump colluded with the Kremlin to win the Nov. 3, 3016 election, something disproved by Mueller’s lengthy investigation.
Voting 225-196, House Republicans fell short because 20 Republicans, largely anti-Trump, voted with Democrats, leaving Rep. Paula Luna (R-Fl.) unable to get her censure vote. Schiff now runs for California senate, looking to replace 90-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein who announced her intended retirement. “Today’s partisan and failed attempt to censure me is a badge of honor that I will proudly wear,” Schiff said in typical partisan form. Schiff didn’t notice that he was saved from censure by a bipartisan vote, including 20 House Republicans. Schiff shows for all to see he’s the leading anti-Trump bigot in the House, maybe only exceeded by 83-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi. Pelosi was so hateful toward Trump she once tore up his State of the Union Speech Feb. 4, 2020 on national TV in a defiant act. Pelosi did everything possible, including two impeachments, to remove Trump from office.
Defeating the censure vote, Schiff no longer has to stand in the well of the House and face public condemnation. But, even without the censure vote, Schiff was reprehensible in his partisan attacks against Trump all through his 2016 campaign and presidency. Schiff put high hopes in Mueller’s investigation, painfully deflated when Mueller gave his verdict March 23, 2019. Schiff continued to insist he had all the facts on Trump’s Russian ties but never produced a shred of evidence, prompting Luna to move ahead with Schiff’s censure. “They hope to intimidate and silence not just me, but others,” Schiff told NBC News. NBC and other liberal news outlets, like CNN, New York Times and Washington Post, have been fed a steady stream of fabrications by Schiff all designed to produce untold numbers of fake news stories about Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin.
Schiff was euphoric June 9 when Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with 37 felonies, all related of his handling of classified documents found Aug. 8, 2022 at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Schiff actually hoped that Smith would charge Trump with more felonies recommended by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee that, according to 56-year-old Co-Chair former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), Trump planned-and-orchestrated the Jan. 6, 2012 Capitol insurrection. “MAGA Republicans are going after me because I dared to hold Donald Trump accountable,” Schiff said, echoing the views of Chieny who destroyed her political career going after Trump. When it comes to extreme partisanship, Schiff commits treachery in Democrats obsession with going after Trump. Partisan Democrats don’t care if the DOJ and FBI violate polices-and-procedures to charge Trump with crimes.
Schiff wants it both ways, spreading any lies about Trump, and, at the same, time complaining when he’s called out for partisan subterfuge. Luna’s censure resolution wanted Schiff to repay $16 million knowing the colossal boondoggle known as the Mueller Report. Schiff even went so far to call Mueller demented after he made hid final findings know in 2019. Whether Mueller’s senile or not, his lead prosecutor, another anti-Trump 66-year-old hack Atty. Andrew Weissmann, now appears on CNN and MSNBC saying Special Counsel Jack Smith has a slam-dunk case against Trump. Weissmann thought he had a slam-dunk case against Trump, only to find out there was nothing there, Trump did not collude with Russia. Now Weissmann accuses Trump of violating the 1917 Espionage Act. Schiff gaslighted the press for years with daily leaks to the New York Times and Washington Post.
Schiff complains after the GOP took over Congress Jan. 3 that that 58-year-old House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) removed him from the House Intelligence Committee. McCarthy said that no one spread so much partisan disinformation about Trump should stay on the House Intelligence Committee. When it comes to Smith’s recent indictments of Trump, Schiff’s the first to say “more power to him.” Schiff has tried but failed to get Trump for years, hoping that two impeachments and the House Jan. 6 Select Committee would urge Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland to charge Trump for planning-and-orchestrating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Schiff can’t fathom that all his partisan propaganda and disinformation finally backfired. Schiff wants Democrats to reward him for serving as the biggest Trump hater of them all on his way to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
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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.
