Rep. Adam Schiff said that if Barack Obama encouraged a foreign power to investigate a political opponent, then the last president would have committed an impeachable offense.
“Under no circumstances do you go outside of your own legitimate law enforcement process to ask a foreign power to investigate your rival, whether you think there’s cause or you don’t think there’s cause,” Schiff explained during the impeachment trial. “And you certainly don’t invite that foreign power to try to influence an election to your benefit.”
Schiff strangely spoke as though addressing a hypothetical. Not only did the Obama administration link arms with foreigners to take down a political rival, but Schiff also ran interference for that propaganda effort by falsely claiming to know of “more than circumstantial evidence” that the Donald Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election, a charge invalidated by the Mueller Report and much else.
Did Schiff really forget his raison d’être for the first two and a half years of the Trump administration?
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See Also:
(1) Hakeem Jeffries: Steele dossier wasn’t foreign interference because it was ‘purchased’
(3) Ted Cruz Puts Schiff on the Spot, Grills Him With Questions About the Whistleblower
