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Schiff: 1/6 Committee Criminal Referrals Not a Political Statement
[BREITBART] Representative Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...(D-CA) said Sunday on CBS’s "Face the Nation" that the January 6 House Select Committee issuing a criminal referral for former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... and others was not a political statement. Then his lips fell off. Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about democracy here at home. As we mentioned, you are on that January 6 committee and I understand you have a meeting today. Chairman Thompson had said at 1pm, there’s going to be a sort of report passed from one group to the main committee about criminal referrals. Reportedly on that list, former President Trump, former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman. Is there a consensus on whether to send a referral for criminal prosecution to the Justice Department, and would doing that be anything more than symbolic? SCHIFF: You know, I think we are in common agreement about what our approach should be. I’m not ready or authorized at this point to tell you what that is. We are as a subcommittee, several of us that were charged with making the recommendation about referrals, going to be making that recommendation to full committee today. We will be releasing a report, I think around the 21st, that will include whatever decision we’ve made on referrals. What I can tell you about the process is we’re looking at what is the quantum of evidence that we have against individuals? What is the impact of making a referral? Are we going to create some suggestion by referring some, that others there wasn’t sufficient evidence, when we don’t know, for example, what evidence is in the position of the Justice Department? So, if we do make referrals, we want to be very careful about how we do them. But I think we’re all certainly in agreement that there is evidence of criminality here and we want to make sure that the Justice Department is aware of that. Related: Adam Schiff: 2022-11-30 Soon-to-be stripped Schiff sneers at McCarthy's threat of removal from Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff: 2022-11-21 McCarthy vows to remove Swalwell, Schiff, Omar from House committees Adam Schiff: 2022-09-06 The Comparison Between Trump and Biden in Wilkes-Barre Is Stark-The Crowd Size/Enthusiasm Is Stunningly Disparate Posted by: Fred 2022-12-12 |
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