Adam Schiff has been nicknamed “Shifty Schiff” by the president and his allies, and the moniker isn’t without merit.
In fact, Schiff actively tried to rig the impeachment hearings by hiding exculpatory testimony from witness Mark Sandy, an official at the White House Office of Management and Budget. And he almost got away with it.
Thankfully, some eagle-eyed journalists on the right caught him in the act – and called him on it.
One of those journalists, John Nolte of Breitbart News, had a particularly cutting take on the whole thing. Nolte:
Mark Sandy is as close to the horse’s mouth as you are going to get, and ten days ago — ten whole days ago — he testified in one of Schiff’s secret basement hearings, and said in no uncertain terms President Trump paused the aid package to Ukraine for one reason and one reason only: “I recall in early September an email that attributed the hold to the President’s concern about other countries not contributing more to Ukraine.”
To back up this claim, Sandy said the OMB had been asked to provide data “on what other countries were contributing to Ukraine.”
Sandy’s current role at OMB is Deputy Associate Director for National Security Program and he is not a Trump appointee. Sandy has held this position since … 2013. He is not even a political appointee. He does not serve at the pleasure of any president or politician, he is a career civil servant.
But it gets worse. Nolte again:
Why was this deposition not released to the public until Tuesday? Why was it hidden for ten goddamned days?
Well, I think we all know why…
The coup plotters, led by Schiff, were deliberately rigging the game.
Here you have, not only a career civil servant providing exculpatory testimony, but he can back it up with receipts, meaning the official requests looking for the data on what other countries are contributing to Ukraine.
Obviously, the coup plotters did not want the public to know about Sandy’s testimony, until…
The impeachment hearings were already over, until the hearings had cemented public opinion against Trump.
What Schiff is guilty of here is an obscenity to anyone who cares about the rule of law and democracy.
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