Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) — the guy who is, unfortunately for the country, the head of the House Intelligence Committee — appeared on “Face the Nation” on Sunday with Margaret Brennan.
Brennan asked Schiff about the FBI raid on President Donald Trump and she asked a terrific question, the same question that so many of us have been asking — if this was truly the “national security” issue they are trying to portray it as now, why did they wait 18 months? I’d even add another point to that — why did they wait three days after they got the warrant on August 5 to execute it?
There’s no evidence in the warrant that there were any “nuclear” documents, there’s only a “sources” report from the Washington Post. ”What was the change that made this immediate?” Brennan asked.
Why was the DOJ taking 18 months to find the Trump documents? “I don’t know, but if the Trump people represented that they provided all the classified or national security information and didn’t, that’s a serious problem,” Rep. Schiff tells @margbrennan pic.twitter.com/4ntVrqtaaR
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 14, 2022
Schiff was flummoxed — he had no answer because there truly isn’t one. “Uh, I don’t know,” he said. But that’s the true question that needs to be asked here. It is not being answered by either he or the DOJ.
Then Schiff tried to shift the focus and spin, “If, uh, the Trump people represented that they provided all the classified or national security information and didn’t, that’s a serious problem. And I could tell you anyone in the intelligence community that had, uh, documents like that marked top secret SCI, uh, in their residence after authorities went to them, um, you know, they would be under serious investigation.”
No one has alleged that the Trump people represented that they provided all the documents and didn’t. Evidently, they knew that they had the documents they needed, as they visited June. That’s Schiff being his Shiftiness again.
But the second part of what he said there — and it can’t be said enough — we need to talk about Hillary Clinton and the stark differences in how she was handled by the FBI versus what they have done to Trump. Hillary Clinton used a private server in order to hide her communications from the government. It contained classified information. She destroyed over 30,000 emails, and her staff smashed the blackberry of their team. Trump getting sent documents by the GSA isn’t even close to that. He worked with them to get back whatever they needed, not to destroy anything. Unlike Hillary Clinton, he didn’t have a private server to avoid review. They just had to ask, he stated. Yet, they’re going after Trump and Clinton got a complete pass.
Here’s a little humor for you that says it all.
With the FBI’s raid of Trump’s private residence, I wanted to repost a video that I did back in 2016 showing James Comey of the FBI letting Hillary off the hook for mishandling classified info. Insane hypocrisy!
Check out “What Difference Does It Make?” pic.twitter.com/UY19CplmIv
— Socialist Mop (@socialistmop) August 13, 2022
Then Schiff claimed that he didn’t know about Trump declassifying things.
On fmr. Pres. Trump claimed that he had declassified documents discovered in FBI searches of Mar-a-Lago. Rep. Adam Schiff denied that Trump has seen any evidence.
“I haven’t seen any evidence that they did that.” pic.twitter.com/POHu4hgQaV
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 14, 2022
Schiff lies again. Schiff knows Trump has declassified documents. Here’s an example of how he declassified the Crossfire Hurricane documents that Schiff fails to mention.
Then President #TrumpIssued this memorandum on 1/19/2021 about declassification FBI Crossfire Hurricane records. Circulated at AG, DNI and CIA. This may be of interest once complete Mar-a-Largo holdings are catalogued. https://t.co/riiagd8ct6 pic.twitter.com/T8YKrZptS7
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) August 12, 2022
Reports suggest that FBI investigators may have looked into information related to the Russia probe.
Trump says he’s declassified other information. Bottom line, Schiff is talking out his hat and we’re talking about the two-tiered system of justice again.
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