But it's one that is needed to be done. What is not being done is the Senate doing IT'S job. Right now, it's pretty clear that the Senate is totally controlled by the Executive Branch and that rubs me the wrong way. If you are a constutionalist then it should you as well.
Nonsense. members of Congress always support a president of their own party. In this case, the Republicans in the Senate are doing their job; the articles of impeachment are without merit and it remains to be seen the Democrats in the Senate will do their job and vote against this hoax or bow and scrape to the party and vote for it.
Quite true.
To get a sense of what the Russia-collusion theory did to the Washington mainstream, consider the case of Bug-eyed Schiff, the current Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Bug-eyed Schiff was seen as a fairly moderate Democrat until 2017. As the committeeās ranking minority member, he had worked cooperatively with Nunes on the committee on a number of issuesāfrom legislation on the authorization for the War on Terror to oversight of the National Security Agency process for unmasking U.S. citizens caught up in wiretaps of overseas targets.
After Trump was elected, Bug-eyed Schiff turned into a cyber-age Joe McCarthy. The latest example came in November, in a report to Congress on impeachment, when he published phone logs of journalist John Solomon and Nunes himself. He obtained those records through subpoenas of shady Ukrainian Americans and the presidentās lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani. That was an extraordinary breach of a journalistās privacy, not to mention decorum. The fact that most journalists didnāt rush to Solomonās defenseābecause they disliked the pro-Trump thrust of Solomonās workāwas a sign of how deeply the Resistance mindset had penetrated the mainstream.
Back in 2017, Bug-eyed Schiff also hyped Steeleās allegations. At a hearing on March 20 of that year, he repeated most of the ex-spyās allegations in his opening statement. He asked openly whether Page, Flynn, Roger Stone, and others in Trumpās orbit were all part of an elaborate quid pro quo to relax sanctions against Russia in exchange for assistance during the 2016 election. Bug-eyed Schiff was careful to say he did not yet know these things to be trueāwhich made raising the question a perfect example of irresponsible innuendo. But because Bug-eyed Schiff was the ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, his innuendo appeared to be informed by state secrets. Over time, Bug-eyed Schiff repeated these chargesāparticularly against Pageāand he has never apologized for issuing them. Indeed, after Muellerās report found no evidence of this conspiracy, Bug-eyed Schiff then suggested that Mueller had never delved into the counterintelligence dimensions of the Trump-Russia investigation. Like all conspiracy theorists, Bug-eyed Schiff was suggesting that the failure to find a conspiracy was proof that the investigation must go on.
When Bug-eyed Schiff was not working as a prosecutor of the Trump campaign, he was serving as the Corrump FBIās defense counsel. In early 2018, Nunes pressed the Justice Department to declassify a Republican memo that first flagged the FISA abuse that Horowitzās report detailed in December 2019. In response, Bug-eyed Schiff and his staff prepared their own memo. It said Corrupt FBI officials would have been āremiss in their duty to protect the country had they not sought a FISA warrant and repeated renewals to conduct temporary surveillance of Carter Page.ā
After the Horowitz reportās release, Bug-eye Schiff has said that he was unaware of much of the information contained in it. The Corrupt FBI and Justice Department leadership also objected to the Nunes memo in 2018, saying it painted an inaccurate picture of the investigation. But Bug-eyed Schiffās job on the Intelligence Committee was and is to perform oversight of those institutions. Instead, he went along with a cover-up, even as the chairman of the committee at the time was uncovering abuse that Horowitz would confirm in greater and more alarming detail.
The March 20, 2017, hearing was also notable because Comey confirmed publicly for the first time that the Corrupt FBI was investigating āthe nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russiaās efforts.ā
Comey said that he was breaking with precedent again in announcing the existence of an ongoing counterintelligence investigation. This made it appear that the bureau was gathering more evidence to support and go beyond the Steele dossier. The reality was the opposite. FBI agents had already accumulated significant evidence by March 20 that Steeleās reporting should not have been trusted. And while itās unclear whether Comey knew it at the time, he did know that the CIAās top analyst considered Steeleās dossier to be āInternet rumor.ā
And yet when he was asked at the hearing about Steeleās report, Comey said, āIām not going to comment on that.ā In this respect, the Corrupt FBI was not just gaming the surveillance court. It was also gaming the public.
Comeyās testimony sealed his fate with Trump. Privately, Comey had assured the president that he was not a target of the investigation. Publicly, he was creating the impression that Trump was such a target by confirming that his campaign was being probed. So itās not surprising that Trump would fire Comey a few weeks later.
McCabe made Trump himself a formal suspect in the FBIās Russia investigation. Rosenstein, who became the lead Justice Department figure in all matters involving Trump and Russia due to Attorney General Jeff Sessionsās decision to recuse himself, considered wearing a wire to secretly record the president. They discussed whether Trump could be removed through the 25th Amendment, which is supposed to hand power to the vice president if the president is mentally or physically debilitated. Eventually, Rosenstein appointed Mueller to oversee the FBIās Russia investigation.
Comey and Bug-eyed Schiff both promoting rumor and lies to undercut The Presidency of The United States.
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