Schiff says office has received death threats over 'Republican spin memo'

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said his office has received death threats regarding the GOP-crafted memo alleging what some Republicans say are "shocking" surveillance abuses at the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told Axios his office has gotten obscene calls and death threats regarding what he called the "Republican spin memo."

He also warned that "reckless hyperbole is just so destructive of our democracy."

"They have so hyped this ... that they've led their echo chamber into thinking that this is something extraordinary," he told the news outlet. "It's incredibly misleading. I don't think it in any way impugns the Russia investigation, or provides any basis for firing any of the personnel involved."

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/371342-schiff-says-office-has-received-death-threats-over-republican-spin-memo

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More from that Axios article The Hill cited, which covered a number of topics (which is why I'm not using it for the LBN headline):

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-389d3c35-ff05-420e-abf2-de0325f04762.html?source=sidebar

Jonathan Swan and I are told that President Trump has already made up his mind to release the memo, which he sees as vindication, despite Justice Department resistance. Trump believes it will solidify in the public's mind that there's a Deep State out to get him.

Couple that fact with some genuinely troubling text messages between FBI agents, and the Fox News chorus warning of a Deep State coup, and you have the makings of a disorientation machine.

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Be smart: This strategy is working better than you think. Trump portrayed Hillary Clinton as an enemy of the state, and she lost. He turned the media into an enemy of the state, if you looks at polls of Republicans. And, perhaps most alarming of all, he's trying to make the FBI look like an enemy of the state.

[riversedge]

1. So, the Republican Trump base is scared. We are living in a dangerous time. I fear for Rep Schiff.

Link to tweet

[MBS]

9. This is predictable, but no less terrifying for that.

Please stay safe, Rep. Schiff.

[dchill]

2. "...there's a Deep State out to get him. "

To Trump, everything is deep. Being that he's so shallow.

[MBS]

8. Excellent comment.

Pow!

[UpInArms]

3. These freaks are fomenting a civil war

And I cannot say how much I despise them.

[elmac]

18. we are already in a Civil War

Its a cold war now but the Putin fascists are willing to do anything to keep their money and power. Things are going to get much, much worse.

[Abouttime]

28. You are so right

Governor Brown should call out the California National Guard to protect rep. Schiff and the rest of the Congress members from the rwnj trump terrorists.
This is civil war, our government has been taken over with the assistance of Putin and Russia.
I know the sight of Uniformed and fully armed CNG soldiers accompanying the Senators and Congress members would have a chilling effect on our enemies on the right.

[MichMary]

29. Heather Heyer was the first

death, but Steve Scalise was the first casualty. Yup. Things are more divisive than I've ever seen in my lifetime. On both sides.

[bdamomma]

36. I am not promoting but even our forefathers would approve:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

[elmac]

41. As long as we are a Capitalist society

and big money runs everything this will always be a given.

[populistdriven]

42. take a number

[Augiedog]

4. The Deep State that is out to get trump is also known as the American Majority of voters. And they

will get him in the end.

[dchill]

11. Remember what Rep. Peter King (R - Buttwipe) said...

after the 2004 Election - "It's all over but the counting... And we'll do the counting."

And so they did.

[MBS]

12. Thank you.

I've been so upset the last few days. . thanks for the confidence in the ultimate victory of the majority of voters. Boy do I hope that you are right.

[pangaia]

15. I am not confident at all.

I agree with Bernstein.
It just ended.

I will keep hoping and doing what I can but....

[Cosmocat]

5. In a one month span he turned 1/3 of the country against the fucking NFL

had people smashing their Keurigs over it ...

[FakeNoose]

6. The Russian trolls are busy these days

You think the trolls went away after the election? Think again. They are everywhere on line, maybe even some are on DU for all I know. They're all over Twitter, that's for sure. Fun fact: They're not all Russian either. These people are being paid to do this shit. They're disrupting our country and our government every day, and somebody is paying them to do it.

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Russian and Putin bots were all over the Internet pushing to release the fake RepubliCON memo

And now it is released. Don't tell me Putin isn't running our Congress. This is just what he wanted.....And he wanted no Russian sanctions.....And he wants Mueller fired.

Putin is running the US government.

[MBS]

13. And the people who enable him - Trump and congressional Republicans- are even worse. n/t

[Farmer-Rick]

14. Yeah, they are

Putin and his gang of Russian mobsters are not committing treason. That's the only real difference.

[MBS]

17. Right you are. n/t

[woodsprite]

35. Putin probably reads English better than Trump.

They should just let him give the speech. Name it AmeRussia State Status (ARSS) rather than SOTU.

[bdamomma]

38. Putin should get his own a$$

kicked to the curb. He has short man syndrome. sickening.

[Stargazer99]

23. F[naly!! Some one who sees what I see Republican trolls on DU

[Wwcd]

30. They never left DU after Nov 2016. They got what they came for & their not finished yet.

They are becoming easier to spot though.
Its all in who & how they consistantly pound away at with their destructive rhetoric.

Anyone going after the Democratic Party & its members or supporters at this point is suspect.

They have never left DU.
Division is their mission. We see it every day. And they aren't here to unite against Trump & the RW.
They are here to strengthen their division sowed in 2015/16, because it supports him

[procon]

7. "enemy of the state" - That's how a dictator talks.

Trump has already ordered a government wide purge. He's surrounded himself with generals and constantly lauds the military and law enforcement. He has staffed his administration with fanatical loyalists, avowed to serve Trump, not the Constitution. Trump has upended the norms of governance without any effective resistance to stop his inexorable march to fascism.

Where is all the going? What are we going to look like when Trump is gone?

[pangaia]

16. Where is all the going?

Fascist dictatorship, military and judicial crackdown.. you name it..

[Enoki33]

19. This could be the emergence of the GOP sponsored fascist storm

troopers dotard has been carefully feeding hatred to. They have forgotten, or do not know, that he once called them stupid.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

20. Does Trump think he will be President For Life?......

It appears that way as he purges those in the FBI and the Justice department of those who stand in his way regarding the Russia investigation. This has the deplorable making a of a dictatorship and the Constitution be damned.

Nation of Laws? Trump must believe he is above the law. We shall see what unfolds.

[bdamomma]

39. again, no effing man especially

this one is above the law. Yes we will see what happens.

[Botany]

21. i have seen this kind of Fox News spawned mental illness in OH 1st hand

In 2008 Sean Hannity and Fox were using the made up story that Sec. of State
Jennifer Brunner was working w/ACORN to rig the upcoming election and Jennifer
got death threats from some mouth breathers who did not know that Hannity
was lying to them.


Trump is counting on this mouth breathing base to help him keep power.

[The Wizard]

22. Republicans appeal to

juvenile thinking. This is a reflection of that arrested development. Stupid people say stupid shit without realizing you can't unsay words once they're released from the lips. Repubics are well versed in spinning the language to convince others they didn't really mean what they said.
Pox News encourages violence against all things not Republican or Russian. When their propaganda comes to fruition they start the back pedaling.

[blueinredohio]

24. What does Trump care if someone in the memo is compromised and

something happens to them? That's how Putin gets rid of people that say anything against him

[olegramps]

25. He is not only not caring but actively pursuing the destruction of anyone who opposes him.

I have very little confidence that the situation will improve. My only hope is that the Democrats use every resource to regain control of the Senate and House. It is imperative for the future of the nation. Trump must be stopped at all costs. He is the monstrous embodiment of the culmination of forty years of right-wing extreme propaganda that has so poisoned the minds of the less discerning that they are virtual mindless unquestioning zombies The Republicans have through the acquisition gained absolute control of the radio airwaves allowing them to disseminate their propaganda unopposed. It is a fantastic machine that coupled with its domination of the conservative and fundamentalists zealots is impenetrateable.

The Republican rank and file will march to the polls fully programmed to cast their ballots as they have been instructed. There is absolutely no hope of convincing them that they are signing their own destruction, but sadly the ship they will sink will engulf us a well. There is little doubt in my mind that the situation could result in a catastrophe. The Republican Party has evolved into a neo-fascist controlled blight whose tentacles have poisoned the Republic. It is a mindless raging beast that is set on a course of complete domination of society that is demonstrating it has no regard for the Constitution or the rule of law. The parallels that it shares with the Nazi regime that hijacked the German government are startling. If not heeded and destroyed we very well could suffer the same catastrophic end.

[Fred Sanders]

27. Great points. Shitler has gone too far and so far the popular media refuses to state the obvious

as you have. It is the Iraq war blindfolders again, repurposed.

[Gothmog]

26. Deplorables/trump supporters are all racist assholes

[SummerSnow]

31. So the Democrats have a memo and the Repubs won't even look at it.

Cover- up

[CrispyQ]

32. He was deeply moved & concerned, yesterday, when MSNBC got him & the rest of the dems on camera,

right after the committee meeting. There are so many, even here on DU, that are so certain that everything will eventually work out okay. I look at where we're at & I'm not optimistic at all.

[Vinca]

33. What the hell is with all the death threats anyway? It's gotten to the point where you can't have

even a minor disagreement with someone or risk a death threat. I was wondering if that's why McCabe left early. His family has probably been getting them, too.

[C_U_L8R]

34. What do these rightwing idiots hope to accomplish with their threats ???

They just look silly and impotent.
No one is afraid of you assholes.

[Cold War Spook]

37. The Democrats

must take back at least the House or the Senate this year otherwise Trump will win in 2020. If Trump remains President and the Republicans both houses of Congress I have no doubts that the the XXII Amendment will be nullified by a new amendment. Maybe I carried it a little too far, but there will be changes in some laws.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Pizza parlor pedophile ring II

More fake news to stir their unstable supporters.