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After Donald Trump’s hand-picked attorney general (brought into the fold by Lindsey Graham to end the investigation) neatly summarized a two-year investigation in a few paragraphs, while still refusing to release the full report or even let the public know how many pages the report even was, Trump and others quickly began to call for Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to resign. Schiff, a former prosecutor, is still overseeing the House investigation into the Trump campaign and its Russian activities, and it makes sense they would love to shove him out of the way. He’s been a vocal critic of Trump and his campaign’s extensive contacts with Russians, especially those with known Russian intelligence ties.
Rep. Schiff addressed his colleagues at a House Intelligence Committee meeting this morning after all nine Republicans on the committee signed a letter calling for his resignation, and he not only remained unapologetic, but he doubled down and ticked off the list of known instances of collusion and the numerous attempts to conceal those meetings and communications.
If the Republicans on the committee were capable of shame, this ought to have done it. There is no question that if the facts Schiff lays out were about any other campaign (*cough* the Clinton campaign *cough), Republicans would be full steam ahead in one investigation after another. As Schiff says, maybe Republicans are okay with this behavior, but he’s not. And neither are we. Take a listen to these clips of Schiff’s statement.
This, of course, won’t stop the Republican calls. They smell blood in the water. It’s example #5,689 of standards Republicans apply to Democrats but not to their own party. Did Jason Chaffetz or Trey Gowdy get pushed out and resign in disgrace after the Clinton email and Benghazi probes? Hell no. One is now a Fox News contributor, and the other was dining at Mar-A-Lago just last weekend, both cashing in on their congressional careers.