The Federalist: Schiff’s 300-page Trump-Ukraine impeachment report is what you would expect after two weeks of hearsay and opinion testimony: unsupported conclusions based upon faulty assumptions.
House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff has released a 300-page Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry report. It’s what you would expect of a rushed report after two weeks of hearsay and opinion testimony: full of unsupported conclusions based upon faulty assumptions.
Garbage assumptions lead to garbage conclusions. Below is a list of several key assumptions Schiff totally failed to support in the report.
1. If You Believe Ukraine Interfered in the 2016 Election, You Must Believe Russia Didn’t
Schiff wrote, “The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations … into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election.” Schiff presented no evidence supporting the assumption that believing Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election requires one to believe Russia didn’t.
Schiff attributed this finding to the intelligence community, writing, “[T]he U.S. Intelligence Community had unanimously determined that Russia, not Ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election to help the candidacy of Donald Trump.” When did the intelligence community unanimously conclude that Ukraine didn’t interfere in the 2016 election? Schiff provides no evidence for that claim because it simply is not true.
2. Ukraine Election Interference Is a ‘Discredited’ Theory
Schiff wrote, “Witnesses unanimously testified that President Trump’s claims about former Vice President Biden and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election have been discredited.” Of course, these witnesses generally lacked firsthand knowledge (or claimed to) and couldn’t really confirm or refute the allegations. Schiff simply declared the Ukrainian interference theory to be “discredited” without addressing any specific evidence of that.
Actually, several operations to support Hillary Clinton in 2016 originated in Ukraine. According to New York Times reporting, a Ukraine court ruled that Ukrainian prosecutors illegally leaked “that a pro-Russian political party had earmarked payments for Mr. Manafort from an illegal slush fund. Mr. Manafort resigned from the campaign a week later.” Politico reported:
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found. A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia.
3. Trump Pursued an Investigation into a ‘Discredited’ Claim About the Bidens
Schiff wrote, “The allegations about Vice President Biden were without evidence.” He later wrote, “In so doing, President Trump gave currency to a baseless allegation that Vice President Biden wanted to remove the corrupt prosecutor because he was investigating Burisma, a company on whose board the Vice President’s son sat at the time.”
Actually, Schiff’s own witnesses conceded that Joe Biden’s involvement in the firing of the Burisma prosecutor caused concern, even the appearance of impropriety. Schiff does nothing to examine or dispel the suspicions regarding the Bidens and simply asks readers to accept his declaration that any suspicions about the Bidens’ behavior have been “discredited” and are “without evidence.”
Investigative reporter John Solomon prepared a thorough examination of the timeline and supporting evidentiary documents that indeed indicate corrupt behavior by the Bidens. His article links to several original documents that support his conclusion. read more
Adam SCHITT knows he has nothing
wants people to think he has something
blathers for 300+ pages as if
quantity = quality.
The American people will decide in 2020
I can hardly wait to see the
smellocrat faces on
election night.
Sadly, there are far too many unwanted/unplanned pregnancies, but I can’t imagine there exists a more disappointed set of parents than the Schiff’s…well maybe the Swalwell’s.
Oh I’m sure both families were pleased as punch when their darling boys were inducted into one of the most elite and powerful clubs the world over….Congress.
They must’ve been beaming with pride and filled with hope that their baby boys who had grown into men of strength and integrity, instilled within them the moral fiber required to lead this Nation…That their noble sons were deemed honorable… to be entrusted to uphold the constitutional values bestowed upon them by the Founders of this great Republic.
It’s a shame the Schiff’s and Swalwell’s are now living under the Witness Protection Program.
Who pays attention to this crook but other crooks he is trying to cover for?
Leftists work off of the assumption that, if they like what they hear, accusations prove themselves because they have been made, that the proof of an accusation is the accusation itself.
One thing Adam Schiff does have: diarrhea of the lips.
Little Lord Fondleboy(s)
If the ASS-umptions don’t fit, you must acquit.
it will be in the fiction section at the bookstore