Trump's purge is about to get much worse. Schiff just sent up a flare.
Source: Washington Post
Trumps purge is about to get much worse. Schiff just sent up a flare.
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
April 7, 2020 at 4:07 p.m. EDT
After President Trump fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, he didnt bother disguising his true reason for doing so: because that IG had conducted his lawful duties in a manner that resulted in Trump being held accountable for his misdeeds and corruption.
As Trump himself put it, Michael Atkinson, the fired IG, had done a terrible job. How so? Easy: Atkinson had evaluated the whistleblower complaint exposing Trumps Ukraine shakedown scheme with procedural correctness.
He took a fake report and he brought it to Congress, Trump said. Thats what Atkinson was supposed to do, and the complaint turned out to be almost entirely accurate, leading to Trump getting justly impeached over the extraordinary misconduct that came out as a result.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) just announced that the House Intelligence Committee, which he chairs, will be examining Trumps firing of Atkinson. And buried in Schiffs letter making this announcement is an unsettling glimpse of where all this could be going.
Schiffs letter, which is addressed to acting director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, expresses Schiffs concern that Grenell is politicizing that office on Trumps behalf, noting that every Senate-confirmed person in the DNI has been removed.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,683 posts)tRump behaves just the way he always has: he does just what he wants and no possible consequences will stop him.
He feels invulnerable and that is extremely dangerous for what's left of our democracy.
Schiff sees all of this very clearly.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,887 posts)panfluteman
(2,065 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)Trump needs to be the first president to be impeached twice. Even if the Senate again does nothing, we've at least got to point out the criminality of this administration.
Continued criminal behavior merits repeated prosecution.
Also, this time perhaps some Senate Republicans can use the crisis as cover for a vote to remove a manifestly... incompetent at best... president.
BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)ananda
(28,874 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)No puppet. No collusion.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"I'm rubber and you're glue..."
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)I don't see any reason why it WOULD be russia. I mean I don't not see any reason why not it WOULDN'T not be putin.
Still, wouldn't it be nice if we could get along with russia? They should be allowed back in the G-7. Just sayin.