Fascinatingly, in his press release castigating the Republican-led committee for closing its probe into among other things collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign that Schiff has adamantly alleged for over a year, the very word "Collusion" was absent.
In December 2017, The Wall Street Journal's James Freeman summarized an exchange between CNN's Jake Tapper and Schiff in which the host questioned the congressman on his evidence of collusion, noting conversations with him often follow this pattern: "Mr. Schiff has spent months commenting on the state of the evidence about Russia and the Trump campaign, and he's claimed over and over that it points to collusion. What he has refused to do is disclose the evidence for his claims."
Perhaps Schiff's most comprehensive attempt at explaining Trump-Russia collusion came in a December 2017 editorial he published in The Wall Street Journal, where he cites five data points as evidence of collusion.
Schiff summarized the evidence like this: "Each of these contacts between the Russians, the Trump campaign, and the transition is now uncontested, yet time and again, the president's team, and in some cases the president himself, had lied about them. To claim that these facts show no evidence of collusion requires a willingness to avoid seeing what is in plain sight, or to credit the self-serving explanations of the same Trump officials who misled the country about these same meetings."
If we stipulated that Schiff was pointing at disconcerting smoke regarding Russia, how, one wonders would Schiff weigh it against the ample evidence of the Trump team making moves detrimental to Russia? The Trump administration has among other things: Armed the Ukrainians; dramatically increased military sales to Europe; sold the Patriot missile defense shield to Poland; crushed Russian mercenary forces in Syria; is developing weapons pursuant to the new nuclear posture review that violate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to counter Russia's treaty-breaking efforts; is developing a missile defense strategy specifically oriented towards Russia; and is countering the Russia-backed Iran Deal.
Does Schiff believe these are false flag acts meant to throw the nation off of the scent of Russia collusion?
Let us ask the seminal question once again: Where is the collusion Schiff?
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/15/okay-adam-schiff-show-us-the-russia-collusion/
In December 2017, The Wall Street Journal's James Freeman summarized an exchange between CNN's Jake Tapper and Schiff in which the host questioned the congressman on his evidence of collusion, noting conversations with him often follow this pattern: "Mr. Schiff has spent months commenting on the state of the evidence about Russia and the Trump campaign, and he's claimed over and over that it points to collusion. What he has refused to do is disclose the evidence for his claims."
Perhaps Schiff's most comprehensive attempt at explaining Trump-Russia collusion came in a December 2017 editorial he published in The Wall Street Journal, where he cites five data points as evidence of collusion.
Schiff summarized the evidence like this: "Each of these contacts between the Russians, the Trump campaign, and the transition is now uncontested, yet time and again, the president's team, and in some cases the president himself, had lied about them. To claim that these facts show no evidence of collusion requires a willingness to avoid seeing what is in plain sight, or to credit the self-serving explanations of the same Trump officials who misled the country about these same meetings."
If we stipulated that Schiff was pointing at disconcerting smoke regarding Russia, how, one wonders would Schiff weigh it against the ample evidence of the Trump team making moves detrimental to Russia? The Trump administration has among other things: Armed the Ukrainians; dramatically increased military sales to Europe; sold the Patriot missile defense shield to Poland; crushed Russian mercenary forces in Syria; is developing weapons pursuant to the new nuclear posture review that violate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to counter Russia's treaty-breaking efforts; is developing a missile defense strategy specifically oriented towards Russia; and is countering the Russia-backed Iran Deal.
Does Schiff believe these are false flag acts meant to throw the nation off of the scent of Russia collusion?
Let us ask the seminal question once again: Where is the collusion Schiff?
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/15/okay-adam-schiff-show-us-the-russia-collusion/
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