President Trump Says He Wants Rep. Adam Schiff ‘Questioned at the Highest Level for Fraud and Treason’
Cassandra Fairbanks
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday night to announce that he wants Rep. Adam Schiff “questioned at the highest level for fraud and treason.
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Rep. Schiff recently lied in his opening remarks and claimed numerous falsehoods about President Trump’s call with the Ukranian president in spite of the transcript being provided to him the day before.
“Like every American, I deserve to meet my accuser, especially when this accuser, the so-called “Whistleblower,” represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way.
Then Schiff made up what I actually said by lying to Congress……” Trump tweeted. “His lies were made in perhaps the most blatant and sinister manner ever seen in the great Chamber. He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the mouth of the President of the United States. I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason…..”
President Trump added that “in addition, I want to meet not only my accuser, who presented SECOND & THIRD HAND INFORMATION, but also the person who illegally gave this information, which was largely incorrect, to the ‘Whistleblower.’ Was this person SPYING on the U.S. President? Big Consequences!”
As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier in the day, Rep.
Schiff is connected to a Ukrainian arms dealer. In 2013 Ukrainian Igor Pasternak held two different fund raisers for Schiff, asking for contributions between $1,000 and $2,500.
Pasternack has also been linked to George Soros.
Schiff, Democrats Demand To See Trump’s Calls With Putin
This article was sourced from TheFederalistpapers
Congress is determined to get access to U.
S. President Donald Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said on Sunday, citing concerns the Republican leader may have jeopardized national security.
“I think the paramount need here is to protect the national security of the United States and see whether in the conversations with other world leaders and in particular with Putin that the president was also undermining our security in a way that he thought would personally benefit his campaign,” Democrat Adam Schiff said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Following a whistleblower complaint that Trump solicited a political favor from Ukraine’s president that could help him get re-elected, the lawmakers are investigating concerns Trump’s actions jeopardized national security and the integrity of U.
S. elections.
The whistleblower’s complaint cited a telephone call in which Trump asked President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to launch an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Hunter Biden sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
The July 25 phone call came shortly after the United States froze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine, prompting concern that Trump was using the taxpayer money already approved by Congress as leverage for his personal political gain.
Joe Biden is a leading candidate in the race to challenge Trump in the November 2020 presidential election. There is no evidence of wrongdoing in Biden’s actions involving Ukraine.
The matter prompted Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to launch an impeachment inquiry against Trump on Tuesday.
Trump says there was nothing wrong with his phone call with the Ukrainian leader and denounced the whistleblower as a “political hack.”
White House adviser Stephen Miller took up the attack on Sunday, accusing the whistleblower of being part of a “deep state” government conspiracy to foment opposition to Trump.
“I know the difference between a whistleblower and a ‘deep state’ operative.
This is a ‘deep state’ operative pure and simple,” he told “Fox News Sunday.”
Trump’s Republican supporters in Congress defended the president’s actions on Sunday TV news shows.
“I have zero problems with this phone call,” Senator Lindsey Graham said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
The whistleblower’s complaint was deemed credible by the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community and the acting director of national intelligence told lawmakers the person “acted in good faith” and “did the right thing.”
The complaint said White House lawyers directed that an electronic summary of the call, which was released to the public on Wednesday, be moved from the place where such things are usually kept to a secret server reserved for covert matters.
“If those conversations with Putin or with other world leaders are sequestered in that same electronic file that is meant for covert action, not meant for this, if there’s an effort to hide those and cover those up, yes we’re determined to find out,” Schiff said on NBC.
The intelligence committee has reached an agreement with the whistleblower to appear before the panel, Schiff told ABC’s “This Week.”
Lawmakers were working out logistics to protect the person’s identity and get security clearance for lawyers who will be representing the whistleblower.
Schiff said he hoped the whistleblower can appear very soon.
House committees on Friday issued a subpoena to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents concerning contact with the Ukrainian government.
They also scheduled depositions for five State Department officials within two weeks, including Kurt Volker, Trump’s envoy to Ukraine. Volker resigned on Friday.
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Adam Schiff Asks for Campaign Donations While Pushing for Impeachment
This article was sourced from Political Insider
By PoliZette Staff | September 29, 2019
There it is, in black and white.
Couldn’t be clearer.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chair of the House Intelligence Committee and one of the Democrats leading the impeachment charge right now against President Donald Trump, is looking for campaign donations.
He’s the individual who made up his own version of what he thinks — what he imagined, and what he’s chosen to imagine — the president said during a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Schiff entered his own parody version into the congressional record and shared it as if it were true — except that it’s not.
During that phone call, as part of a longer conversation, Trump and Zelensky discussed corruption and Trump asked him to look at former Vice President Joe Biden’s and his son Hunter Biden’s past Ukraine activities in that regard.
Trump released the transcript of that phone call so the American public and Congress could see exactly what he said.
This is why Trump and others have ripped Schiff for his made-up version.
Related: Schiff ‘Should Be in Jail’
But that hasn’t stopped Schiff — who insisted for more than two years that Trump colluded with Russians in order to win election in 2016, ultimately proven to be false — from seeking public support.
On Friday, Schiff sent out a tweet essentially begging for money from those who support him.
He wrote, “President Trump just demanded I resign from Congress. But I won’t listen.”
“There’s nothing he or his right-wing allies can do to stop me from holding him accountable and seeking the truth,” he added.
Then came this: “Pitch in to my campaign if you’re with me,” he concluded on Twitter.
So kick out the president, in other words — and try mightily to rake in some cash while doing it.
The New York Post shared the details of Schiff’s tweet and reached out to the Schiff office for comment but did not hear back.
Many politicians are raising money right now on both sides of the aisle and mentioning “impeachment” in their donation asks.
But this is not the first time Schiff has solicited money to help defeat or push back on Donald Trump.
He’s done it previously — and people have called him on it. One person wrote back to him last year on Twitter and said, “What will you do with this money?”
Here’s that person’s exact tweet:
Many other people are pushing back on Schiff.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) on Friday introduced a resolution in the House condemning and censuring Schiff for his remarks in the televised hearing on Thursday in which the Democrat created and read his “parody” version of Trump’s phone call.
Schiff “read a statement that was blatantly false, had no corresponding evidence, nor relationship to the actual transcript of President Trump’s conversation,” Biggs said in a video posted to Twitter, as NBC News and other outlets reported.
“What the chairman did is he read something that was made-up, totally false, and later had to excuse it by saying it was a parody,” said Biggs.
Schiff first opened the Thursday hearing with the presence of the acting director of national intelligence, James Maguire — and Schiff then dove in to what he later called a “parody.”
And here’s what Trump had to say about it:
Here is part of Schiff’s parody of Trump: “We’ve been very good to your country, very good,” he began, as if he were Trump talking.
“No other country has done as much as we have, but you know what? I don’t see much reciprocity here,” he continued. “I hear what you want, I have a favor I want from you, though, and I’m gonna say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it.”
Related: Schiff Must Resign, Say Many, After His ‘Impeachment Stunt’
Schiff then emphasized he was illustrating a point.
“This is in some [measure] what the president was trying to communicate with the president of Ukraine,” claimed Schiff. “It would be funny if it wasn’t such a graphic betrayal of the president’s oath of office.”
The resolution by Biggs, the new head of the House Freedom Caucus, states that Schiff’s comments were an “egregiously false and fabricated retelling” that “had no relationship to the call itself,” as The Hill pointed out.
He alleged that “these actions of Chairman Schiff misled the American people, bring disrepute upon the House of Representatives, and make a mockery of the impeachment process, one of this chamber’s most solemn constitutional duties.”
The Biggs resolution also contains language alleging that members of the House Intelligence Committee “have lost faith” in Schiff’s ability to be objective as chairman — and that his remarks hampered the committee’s ability to carry out oversight responsibilities.
The Schiff comments have continued to prompt outrage. Among other comments, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called out Schiff for his use of “fake dialogue” to describe the president’s phone call.
Online readers have been reacting as well. One wrote, “Schiff should be in jail” for his behavior.
Another said, “It may very well be that it is time for the American people to exercise our duty to the Constitution and protect our country from domestic enemies!”
“This man has sold his soul to try and impeach our president with made-up lies,” said another about Schiff.
The president is pushing back hard on the activities of Schiff, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.
) and others who are trying to negate the results of the 2016 election.
See this tweet by Trump and other tweets — and share your thoughts on all of this.