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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAdam Schiff calls Trump's bluff, and issued the following statement:
In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, Rep. Schiff (D-CA) said:
Today, the President made two extraordinary statements, one intended to threaten the FBI Director he just fired in the middle of the Russia investigation and who may now be a witness and the other to justify the misleading and conflicting explanations that he and his staff have given for that firing.
If the President has tapes of his conversations with Director Comey, it is because the President himself made them. For a President who baselessly accused his predecessor of illegally wiretapping him, that Mr. Trump would suggest that he, himself, may have engaged in such conduct is staggering. The President should immediately provide any such recordings to Congress or admit, once again, to have made a deliberately misleading and in this case threatening statement.
Finally, and with respect to the Presidents suggestion that as a very busy person, he doesnt have time to ensure that his spokespeople are accurately portraying his actions it is difficult to know how to respond except to say, being truthful with the American people is a core responsibility of the job. If he did not want to willingly undertake even the minimal requirements of the Presidency, it would have been far better for him to have considered that before he chose to run for the highest office in the land.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/12/top-house-intel-democrat-adam-schiff-demands-trump-turn.html
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)When someone accuses you of something you did not do, then you know what that person is thinking.
dchill
(38,532 posts)of shit he's already done/doing.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)spanone
(135,874 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)is on the Front Lines Fighting Against the Russian-trump Collusion.
Not "politicizing" it.
gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)PsychoBabble
(837 posts)He needs to be shamed, Nationally.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,195 posts)So, whip it out, Trumpo. Let's see whatcha got.
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Trump isn't a great thinker and he sure can't listen for shit so I don't have a lot of faith that he can follow the gist of what Schiff says. I don't recall Trump giving him a nickname or tweeting about him. Of course I don't follow every tweet so I could be wrong.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I think he would be in line for the job of Speaker once we regain the House.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)elected officials to act. Well done, Congressman! And thanks.
Penn Voter
(247 posts)He said, "if there was no there, there, Jim Comey would still have his job."