Besides Madame Speaker, Adam Schiff has most consistently impressed me personally, as being a force in the Democratic caucus, since Trump was “elected.”
And he’d been going hard after Trump from the minority as well. He appears to be one of the few, besides Pelosi, who know how to deal with bullies. Nancy attacking head-on. Adam using facts as weapons.
- State your facts
- Stick by them
- Don’t engage in tit-for-tat
- Let the bully twist in the wind
But there are times when facts can be used to PREVENT terrible things from happening.
This is one of those times.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) tipped his hand Wednesday, saying that
he would use Tuesday’s testimony from intelligence chiefs to shoot down the rationale for a national emergency,
should President Donald Trump try to use that card to fund a border wall.
“I will say this also that glaring absences that you talked about earlier—
that none of the intel chiefs brought up a threat at the border as being one of the most pressing threats facing the country—that can be Exhibit A in a challenge of a national emergency,”
Schiff said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “The fact that none of the intelligence agencies think it is an emergency, the fact that Congress on both parties don’t think this is an emergency…I think if anything it is going to undermine that legal case that the President may try to make, that hearing yesterday can be a central exhibit.”
See for yourselves:
It is very important to do this. To preempt any irrational action by Trump.
It may not stop him from doing it. But it lays the groundwork to set public opinion against him if he does.
Force Trump to say, “I’ve never listened to my Intel Chiefs, so why start now?”
Great work, Congressman!!!
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