Schiff Maintains That He’s Seen Damning Evidence: ‘Undoubtedly There Is Collusion’

House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks to a reporter in the Capitol on Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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House Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) refuses to accept Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report, insisting that “undoubtedly there is collusion.”

“We will continue to investigate the counterintelligence issues,” he added to the Washington Post. “That is, is the President or people around him compromised in any way by a hostile foreign power? It doesn’t appear that was any part of Mueller’s report.”

He said that his committee may well dredge up “deeply compromising” evidence that just happened to fall outside the limited scope of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Schiff has become a big target for President Donald Trump and his allies after the release of Barr’s report, with the President even bestowing upon him a new moniker: “pencil neck.”

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  1. Pencil neck as opposed to no neck?

  2. We’ve all seen damning evidence. The Lester Holt interview. The jr “I love it” email, and on and on and on…lordy I bet there are tapes Schiff has seen

  3. There is undoubtedly collusion and obstruction, the public records have long shown it. Would a jury convict? Who knows, I’m sure the fascistgop could find a way to pay for a favorable verdict.

    The public absolutely needs to see the actual report so that comrade president can be held accountable in the election, if not in our ‘justice’ system. Will our corporate media make that case? Hardly seems likely.

  4. I’d much rather have a pencil neck than a saggy wattle.

    Of course, this is really a schoolyard taunt tossed at the smart kid.

    In donnie’s world intelligence is a trait that should be denigrated.

  5. We all know that Barr is feverishly having underlings work around the clock on redacting whatever content of the Report that contradicts his four page “summary.”

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