Adam Schiff Eviscerates Trump For Systematically Destroying The Rule Of Law

[babylonsister]

Posted on Tue, Apr 9th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Adam Schiff Eviscerates Trump For Systematically Destroying The Rule Of Law


Congressman Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, tore into Donald Trump for setting a dangerous precedent and essentially destroying the rule of law in America in just two short years.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Rep. Schiff explained how, every step of the way, Trump has acted lawlessly to protect his presidency.

“The precedent now is if you are a president under investigation, you can fire the FBI director who is conducting that investigation,” Schiff explained. “If your attorney general will not ignore the advice of ethics lawyers and intervene on your behalf, you can fire the attorney general. You can then hire a new attorney general who has written to you about how he thinks the case against you is bogus.”

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Schiff said:

The precedent now is if you are a president under investigation, you can fire the FBI director who is conducting that investigation. If your attorney general will not ignore the advice of ethics lawyers and intervene on your behalf, you can fire the attorney general. You can then hire a new attorney general who has written to you about how he thinks the case against you is bogus and then that person can get confirmed by the Senate of your party even without requiring that that attorney general recuse himself. And then in place, that attorney general can do exactly what he was hired to do and make the obstruction of justice case go away. And also prevent the Congress from seeing the results, the full results of that investigation. That’s what I mean. That’s what Roy Cohen would do and, sadly, this is where we are only two years into this presidency.

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[Iliyah]

1. There are cracks beginning in the Republican party.

t-rump's budget looks horrible, i.e. cuts in the billions to SSI, etc.

American people are fed up with the Republican party and they know it.

Upcoming elections in 2020.

Majority of America know that the Republican party is breaking the law especially with Barr in the helm and t-rump is guilty.

Barr's newly investigation of Mueller's investigation is a fake and will backfire.

That the Republican party does not care about the USA nor her people.

[KPN]

16. OH? Beside Grassley? Where?

[Moostache]

26. Aside from draconian border security and abortion, what does the GOP want now?

Seriously.

They have no governing agenda or platform beyond tax cuts and deregulation. Those have been done to bankrupt the government and poison us all already...

They now have only racism and hatred of women as organizing principles...and kowtowing to Trump so he is not mean to them in a tweet (fucking cowards).

I hate the fact that 43% of the people in this country see nothing wrong with that either...almost as much as I hate the fact that the other 57% of the country has a large subset that cannot be motivated or bothered to vote in consistent numbers.

I need some caffeine...this AM is getting me down hard.

[BSdetect]

2. I hate that we have to wait till 2020 to get rid of that scum

Serious flaws in how this country runs.

[Perseus]

8. Well said

I feel like you do...the buffoon and his minions get away with too much. People need to understand that it is easier and faster to destroy than to build, and at the pace we are going, two years of these crooks in power is too much.

I have seen it before, and the road is the same no matter what country you are in, if these crooks are left to continue the destruction, by the time 2020 elections arrive, they will have changed laws, the constitution, and many other things to support their corruption.

The country must wake up.

[KPN]

19. tRump has learned from a lifetime of doing so that our justice systems's bias toward protecting

the innocent can be used to weasel out of anything, including treasonous acts to steal an election and then maintain a secure grasp on authority and power. And he has taught those lessons to the GOP thugs who kiss his ass every single day.

We are currently faced with a national crisis that rivals any in our history with the possible exception of the Civil War. At some point, if something doesn't happen soon to drastically change and correct the present trajectory, maybe even that.

[KPN]

17. 2020 may be too late. And do you really have faith in an open and honest, credible election?

[Ponietz]

3. Kick

[dlk]

4. Th Sad Truth is the Win at All Costs Republicans Really Don't Care

Each and every day the Republicans show the world their complete distain for ethics, the rule of law and even democracy, itself. They would be perfectly happy with an authoritarian dictatorship as long as they thought he was their guy. They are systematically destroying our country.

[raging moderate]

5. Adam Schiff for President.

We can wear shirts that say "I'm with Pencil Neck." Or "Another Pencil Neck for Schiff." I'm serious. We can wear little ties or bow ties with tiny pencils attached.

[Perseus]

9. I am with you

If Schiff throws his candidacy I am with him as well. I have a feeling that he won't "look forward".

[Traildogbob]

10. Name calling

Pencil necks!! Really!! That's his best? Has he looked at his own swollen labia neck? It get swollen and engorged Everytime he lies and thinks he is getting away with it. As per Mr. Robert Zimmermen from Blood on the Tracks,"idiot wind, blowing Everytime he moves his teeth."

[dajoki]

20. Love the Dylan reference n/t

[raging moderate]

28. Yeah, Trump is pretty disgusting.

Still, sometimes an insult can be turned around and pointed at the insulters. That is what the American colonists did to the British who jeeringly called them Yankees.

[DontBooVote]

6. "...this is where we are" Sounds like resignation to me. So that's that! tRump is above the law!

And, if that 's the case, what good is that law and why does anyone else have to obey the law?

[beachbum bob]

7. I am getting pretty much sick of "words" and really want to actually see "action"...enough is enough

Democrats have the power in the house, lets see some action

[notdarkyet]

15. Me too. We need to start cracking down. First, impeach Barr.

[BSdetect]

25. Looks to me that Barr has been primed to back drumph whatever we try.

[beachbum bob]

27. you subpoena Barr to appear with unredacted Mueller report, thats the first step. Barr refuses

you find Barr in contempt of congress and innate impeachment proceedings against Barr, let senate GOP defend Barr's contempt of congress and the subpoena to hide the truth from the American people....its a simple strategy and we must demand our democrats in Congress to do this

[yaesu]

18. yep, tRump loves all the attention, the more he's attacked the more emboldened him & the nazi

party gets. The orange hiltler is, it would seem, above the law, too big to fail. 2/3rds of the Fed & state governments are backing him, he has the high courts in his pocket. It was planned this way, they have been working on this scenario for decades. The shit storm has just begun.

[dajoki]

22. I agree with you...

this has been building for more than half a century. I will not allow myself to give up hope though, I am in it for my grandchildren.

[KPN]

21. Me three. Time for action. Time for pitchforks if nothing else.

When are our Democratic leaders in Congress going to sound the alarm clearly? When are they going to rally Americans to protest nationally and massively against this on-going coup d'etat by a crazed, narcissitic, would-be dictator and his weak, greed-driven, hateful enablers?

We need real leadership now!

[infullview]

11. I keep hearing "the rule of law"

Has anyone given any serious thought to ENFORCING it?

[yaesu]

23. I keep hoping the House majority starts raising all kinds of hell, do what the fascists would do

if the tables were turned but my hopes are fading. To be fair, there isn't a lot our party can do with 2/3rds of state, federal government & the high courts under nazi control. One party, one House, fighting a war against a majority ruling dictatorship, MSM, the rich elite, wall street, big oil, russia & who knows what else.

[Blue_Tires]

12. IMPEACHMENT WHEN

I swear to GOD I'm getting tired of asking this...

[zaj]

13. We need to eviscerate the GOP for enabling this.

[Polly Hennessey]

14. Who knew it was so easy to

destroy the rule of law and it only took one person. All the millions of us just stood by helplessly, wringing our hands, whimpering about how sad it all was.

[OBrien]

24. Gee that's going to show em...

Many of us have been extremely patient and willing to let Dems handle this forcefully, but I just don’t see it. It pains me to say we are being failed again as we were during the Bush years.