Republicans Get Revenge on Adam Schiff for What He Did To Trump!

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Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) was asked to consider the various Russia investigations, including the Mueller special counsel investigation, and whether they may have influenced President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to appoint disrupters to his second Cabinet in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union on Wednesday.

Tapper pointed to some of Trump’s nominees, including Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Kash Patel for FBI head, Matt Gaetz for the Department of Justice, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services, calling attention to the “disruptive” nature of these appointments. He then posed the question of whether Washington insiders, including Schiff, were introspective about the reasons for the rise of such disrupters.

Tapper noted that Schiff was censured in the House last year for allegedly abusing his position of power as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee by claiming there was evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

He then asked Schiff if he felt any introspection about his role, considering that, according to the Mueller report and Schiff’s Republican colleagues, his claims of collusion had been an overstatement.

Schiff, however, maintained his stance and reiterated his claims of collusion, even as Tapper pointed out that the Mueller investigation concluded it did not establish any coordination or conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

It was responded by Schiff that it was not an overstatement, as evidence of collusion existed. One example given was the Trump campaign manager meeting with Russian intelligence and providing them with internal polling data, referencing his version of events from the Mueller investigation.

Tapper interrupted, reminding Schiff. The study acknowledged meetings but did not uncover any proof of conspiracy that the Mueller report did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the government of Russia in its activities of their election interference.

Schiff, however, dismissed the investigation’s conclusions, citing Mueller’s suggestion that while there was no proof of conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt, that didn’t rule out the possibility of coordination. This, Schiff argued, wasn’t the key issue for voters.

It was continued by Schiff that the American people were not persuaded that a better answer, program, agenda, or plan was offered. More than that, it was stated that the failure occurred in convincing the American people that, in the voters’ view, that party and candidate understood people like him and were fighting for people like him.

Schiff took responsibility for the failure to connect with voters but insisted that addressing economic issues, such as inflation, was central to the election. He acknowledged the need for introspection but dismissed his critics, focusing instead on addressing the challenges ahead.

His claims of Russian collusion were rooted in the discredited Steele dossier, which suggested that the Kremlin had blackmail material on Trump and that his campaign conspired with Russia. However, in 2021, Special Counsel John Durham accused Russian analyst Ivan Danchenko, a key source for the Steele dossier, of lying to the FBI, further undermining the document’s credibility.