If you believe for one moment that Robert Mueller’s report exonerates Donald Trump and the people around his campaign of anything, you probably shouldn’t continue reading this diary. In fact, you might want to quit reading anything and everything since your comprehension skills are pathologically deficient. Also, turn off your radio and television set—it’s making you stupid and hateful. Rep. Adam Schiff is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee—the committee that in recent years was chaired by corrupt luminary Rep. Devin Nunes. Since Trump’s waterboy, Attorney General William Barr, released his four page nothing burger on the Mueller Report, Republicans and Trump have been working overtime to discredit the report and Democratic officials asking to see the report, while also trying to keep the report hidden. During a sessions of the House Intelligence Committee today, Rep. Schiff responded to those attacks, and boy did he respond!
Schiff: My colleagues may think it's okay that the Russians offered dirt on a democratic candidate for president as part of what was described as the Russian government's effort to help the Trump campaign. You might think that's okay.
My colleagues might think it's okay that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the president's son did not call the FBI. He did not adamantly refuse that foreign help. No, instead that son said that he would love the help of the Russians. You might think it's okay that he took that meeting.
You might think it's okay that Paul Manafort the campaign chair, someone with great experience in running campaigns also took that meeting. You might think it's okay that the president's son-in-law also took that meeting. You might think it's okay that they concealed it from the public. You might think it's okay that they're only disappointment after that meeting was that the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasn't better. You might think that's okay.
You might think it's okay that when it was discovered a year later that they lied about that meeting and said it was about a adoptions. You might think it's okay that the president has reported to have helped dictate that lie. You might think that's okay.
I don't.
You might think it's okay that the campaign chairman of a presidential campaign would offer information about that campaign to a Russian oligarch in exchange for money or debt forgiveness.
I don't.
You might think it's okay that that campaign chairman offered polling data, campaign polling date to someone linked to Russian intelligence.
I don't think that's okay.
You might think it's okay that the president himself called on Russia to hack his opponent's emails if they were listening. You might think it's okay that later that day, in fact, the Russians attempted to hack a server affiliated with that campaign.
I don't think that's okay.
You might think that it's okay that the president's son-in-law sought to establish a secret back channel of communications with the Russians through a Russian diplomatic facility.
I don't think that's okay.
You might think it's okay that an associate of the president made direct contact with the GRU through guccifer2 and Wikileaks and that's considered a hostile intelligence agency. You might think that it's okay a senior campaign official was instructed to reach that associate and find out what that hostile intelligence agency had to say in terms of dirt on his opponent. You might think it's okay that the national security adviser designated, secretly conferred with a Russian ambassador about undermining U.S. sanctions and you might think it's okay he lied about it to the FBI.
You might say that's all okay. You might say that's just what you need to do to win. But i don't think it's okay.
Discuss your feelings about it all over here. And watch it below.