Adam Schiff Just Demolished Trump's Impeachment Defense Strategy

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/24/adam-schiff-demolished-trump-impeachment-strategy.html

Posted on Tue, Sep 24th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
Adam Schiff Just Demolished Trump’s Impeachment Defense Strategy

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Link to tweet

Schiff said:

First, I think the administration realizes this is going to come out. Ultimately, the public is going to know about the president’s misconduct, and they want to try to get ahead of it. And they also want to try to shape it in the same way Bill Barr misled the country about what was involved. So you can already see the president trying to suggest to the country that, ‘Hey, if I didn’t specifically ask for a quid pro quo, then there’s no problem here.’ You don’t need an explicit quid pro quo. You don’t need an implicit quid pro quo. Ukraine understands how it is entirely dependent on the United States, how it’s entirely dependent on the goodwill of president of the United States for military support, financial support, for support among the international community. And when the president of the United States tells that country, ‘This is what I want you to do for me’, much like when James Comey said when the president said I’d like you to see if you can make this Flynn matter go away, that country understands that not as a request but as in this will be done or there are repercussions. He doesn’t have to make it explicit. It’s enough he withheld this military support even as he’s browbeating this president and his personal lawyer is browbeating Ukraine for help in their political campaign.

Democrats learned their lesson from the Mueller report debacle

What Schiff’s remarks on Tuesday night seem to suggest is that Democrats have learned their lesson from the Mueller report debacle.

Even though Mueller laid out damning evidence against Trump in his report, Trump and Bill Barr were able to craft a narrative early. It turned the debate over the Mueller report into another left-versus-right debate, which only benefitted Trump.

By announcing a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday and remaining on message and on offense about Trump’s criminal behavior, Democrats aren’t letting the White House release a sequel to their Mueller report whitewash.

Democrats are making this very simple: We already know Donald Trump broke the law and he must be held accountable.

[Iliyah]

1. In my opinion, there was no Mueller report nor

testimony debacle.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. exactly -- not a debacle, just not a tv show ...

The only debacle surrounding the Mueller report is in the way tv helped mislead much of the country. The redacted report is still there and still damning. The unredacted report should have been made public immediately.

[uponit7771]

10. +1, the punditry wanted Mueller to twerk on the table during testimony

[DemocracyMouse]

12. Nice alliteration! And good metaphor too! ...A+

DU has enough writing talent to make a nice variety show to compete with Monday Night Football... (and once the kinks are worked out, heck, take on SNL on Saturday night).

[DemocracyMouse]

14. Seriously!

And it would help enlighten the nation.

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

The one trick pony, Don the Con and his side kick have been outmaneuvered.
I think they really thought they ould stop the Inquiry by releasing the transcript.
THIS
By announcing a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday and remaining on message and on offense about Trump’s criminal behavior, Democrats aren’t letting the White House release a sequel to their Mueller report whitewash.

Democrats are making this very simple: We already know Donald Trump broke the law and he must be held accountable.

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. May the floodgates open wide!

[Hekate]

6. KISS principle -- staying unified and on-message may bring this home

[calimary]

7. Stay on it, Rep. Schiff!

We thank you.

[Maxheader]

8. Is this guy running for prezident?

If not, why not..?..

[jimmil]

9. Today Gump will say....

Hey, I was kidding. You know how much I kid people. I never really meant it when I said there are billions of dollars at stake. I'm kidding!

[NeoGreen]

11. Hey Ukraine, you know...things break...

...money gets delayed...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x75bt6

[lagomorph777]

16. "The conversation I had was largely congratulatory..."

"Nice country you've got there. Shame if sump'n' were to happen to it..."

[Botany]

13. Adam Schiff, No amount of spin Trump's Ukraine extortion scheme is an impeachable offense.

Adam Schiff (D-CA) says no amount of political spin from the White House will change the fact that Trump's Ukraine extortion scheme – which he has already admitted to – is an impeachable offense.

[SayItLoud]

15. Never in history has there been

such sophisticated crisis management people, companies and strategies. With social media, 24/7 opinion and news programs the opportunities to disseminate SPIN are great. The ORAL OFFICE knows and has an army of crisis management teams.

The Dems and honest media need to stay on message:

The potus has admitted, the president's attny has admitted. Just drive this home over and over again. Don't add more, detailed, confusing messages. Just the fact that the potus has ADMITTED.

[certainot]

17. will americans learn their lesson and stop ignoring talk radio?

[Sentath]

18. Alternate Link (YouTube)

[llmart]

20. Adam Schiff is a treasure.

He has been on the forefront of all this corruption and keeping it front and center for a long time. We owe him a huge debt of gratitude. So glad he's on our side!

[SunSeeker]

19. K & R