House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday that President Donald Trump would not necessarily be out of the woods should Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report not contain conclusive evidence of collusion with Russians.
“There may be grounds for removal of office or grounds for indictment after he leaves office if the Congress discovers one of the things that the Mueller report may not cover, whether the Russians were laundering money for the Trump Organization,” Schiff said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“Our prominent concern on my committee is was this President, is this President, compromised by a foreign power?” he added.
Schiff says that Trump may well still be in hot water even if Mueller report proves inconclusive pic.twitter.com/7NiGsKnBMm
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Keep sweating him. The more upset, the more absurd he becomes.
Good, this is important…people are thinking the Mueller report is the last word on what Trump might have done, but it’s not even close. There are many things out there that Trump and his family and friends have been involved in, and it’s time they get pursued, especially since many of them are endemic to the behavior of the wealthy in our society. If investigating this leads to investigating all of the kinds of structural things Trump took advantage of (like holes in the IRS regulations, cheating on tax forms), then we could end up with a more fair economic system. At the least, we will get to the bottom of what has happened during the Trump administration, all of the lies and corruption, and that will hopefully lead to some good governance laws.
People are so wrapped up in hating Trump that they are losing the big picture, which is the total abuse of our system by the Republican party and the wealthy and corporations in total…Trump is a symptom of all of that, as well as the latent awful behavior on that side of the political aisle. These investigations, if done with an eye towards justice, will really help us to understand the weaknesses of our system and how to lock it down. I hope, at least.
Another example of this is the college admissions scandal that broke yesterday. That one ring is just the tip of the iceberg. This kind of corruption is endemic to the admissions system and we’re finally getting a glimpse of the ugly inner workings that favor the rich and well connected.
Oh, but gee Adam, why are you investigating Trump. Just impeach him! We don’t need evidence, we don’t need to make a case, just do it. Acting on your rage is just so progressive. [Snark].
All I can say is that I am really, really glad that we have adults like Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and Elijah Cummings in charge. They can put a case together with evidence, hold hearings, read the polls/talk to people, do focus groups to see how much support they need to build, build a coalition to get it done, and then drive the narrative. They are not people whose only skill in life is promising unicorns via tweets.
No, the big picture is not a tag line, its that to win the presidency the Democrats need to win in (a) PA,WI, MI while holding the states they currently hold, or (b) flip a bunch of sunbelt states, FL, GA & AZ while holding the states they won in 2020, and © do it via a message that does not turn off the suburban voters in 2020 in a way that causes them to vote for the republicans as a “check” on the democrats (what happened in 2016) giving Republicans back the house, and allowing them to retain the senate.
That is the big picture. If we spend our time focusing on how bad republicans are, rather than making a case for the change that is needed, change that people will actually support and is realistic, we will lose.