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Shouldn't Adam Schiff recuse from Russia probe now that he's caught hobnobbing with Fusion GPS?
American Thinker ^ | 02/08/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 02/08/2019 7:30:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind

A while back, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself from the investigation into President Trump's campaign's supposed collusion with the Russians to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. The grounds for it? Sessions had shaken hands and made small talk with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, meaning, he had a conflict of interest. Sessions, being the honorable naif that he was, obliged.

Well, now the shoe is on the other tootsie.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, who's vowed a kitchen-sink style investigation against President Trump, (now that no Russian collusion has been found) has been caught in photographs taken at the Aspen security conference last year with none other than Hillary Clinton's bought-and-paid-for smear artist Glenn Simpson, chairman of Fusion GPS.

John Solomon of The Hill has the scoop on the pictures:

They show Schiff meeting at the event with Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson, one of the key and most controversial figures in the Russia collusion scandal. Both men insisted to me through spokesmen that they met only briefly last July.

At the time of the encounter, Simpson was an important witness in the House Intelligence Committee probe who had given sworn testimony about alleged, but still unproven, collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Simpson ran the firm hired by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party to find dirt on Trump in Moscow. He employed retired British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, whose infamous and unverified dossier became the main evidence for the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign, particularly the surveillance warrant against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201807; adamschiff; aspen; aspentrees; fusiongp; fusiongps; glennsimpson; glensimpson; russia; schiff
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So here we have one of two things going on:

1. Schiff has this friendly social relationship with Simpson that allows the two to get together at whatever conference they may find themselves at (think about how many people there are to meet at such big conference and how many of them would have liked to have met with Schiff), and

2. Schiff chooses to meet with Simpson from among all of the people he could have kaffeeklatsched. Schiff's buddy-buddy relationship with Simpson, who was the bankroller of the phony "pee dossier" from Christopher Steele, cobbled together by his buddies in Moscow in a bid to smear Trump doesn't constitute a conflict of interest?

1 posted on 02/08/2019 7:30:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The ‘Rats figured out long ago that the bigger and more brazen their malfeasance, the easier it is to perpetrate without fear of punishment or retribution.


2 posted on 02/08/2019 7:32:19 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Recuse himself!! Yeah right. It’s only the stupid, cowardly, gutless GOPee that Recuses itself at the first sign of a fight. Schiff will tell you to kiss his $ss.


3 posted on 02/08/2019 7:33:54 AM PST by abbastanza
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To: SeekAndFind

No. Schiff should be investigated for what he knew and when he knew it regarding the DemoKKKrats and their collusion to undermine the 2016 presidential election.


4 posted on 02/08/2019 7:34:29 AM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies & other DemoKKKrats: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


5 posted on 02/08/2019 7:35:28 AM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't waiting. Do it today.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks Jeff Sessions...... You caused this mess. If there is a god, he needs to take Jeffy home.


6 posted on 02/08/2019 7:35:47 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: SeekAndFind

7 posted on 02/08/2019 7:36:03 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind
And more than that...

Video: Adam Schiff colluded with Russians to get naked photos of Donald Trump

The Russians who telephoned him turned out to be Russian comedians scamming him, but while believing them genuine he clearly colluded.

8 posted on 02/08/2019 7:39:22 AM PST by drpix
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To: Perseverando

Bump!


9 posted on 02/08/2019 7:39:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

‘Guess we’ll have to wait for his next missive to the Los Feliz Ledger to find out.


10 posted on 02/08/2019 7:40:04 AM PST by onedoug
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To: drpix

Continued... How many terrorist plot are prosecuted based on undercover agents set up people with such scams?


11 posted on 02/08/2019 7:42:19 AM PST by drpix
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To: SeekAndFind

Premise of the article is baloney. Author must live in the press bubble, and not the reality bubble.

Sessions recused from investigating the Trump campaign because Sessions had a political relationship (was a principle advisor) with the Trump campaign, and DOJ regulations (28 CFR 45.2) call for recusal in this circumstance.

That said, nobody thinks Schiff is impartial, and the only time recusal has play is when the board of inquisition has a hope of being considered impartial.


12 posted on 02/08/2019 7:42:21 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope this bastard develops a painful deadly disease and dies all alone.


13 posted on 02/08/2019 7:46:23 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s not going to recuse himself.


14 posted on 02/08/2019 7:51:31 AM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Fianóglach)
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To: Perseverando; GOPJ; Jane Long; RitaOK; Grampa Dave; stephenjohnbanker; Arthur Wildfire! March; ...
Vengeful House Intelligence Committee chair Democrap Adam Schiff, who is desperate to make a name for himself
by viciosuly going after Pres Trump, (now that Russian collusion is a no-show) has been caught with his pants down.

Schiff's been photographed at the Aspen security conference with Hillary Clinton's bought-and-paid-for
dossier smear artist Glenn Simpson, chairman of Fusion GPS. ACTION NOW:

Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
email at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
@POTUS or @realDonaldTrump on Twitter!

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U.S. Department of Justice
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FBI Major Case Contact Center: 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324)

TALKING POINTS----Hat tip Perseverando: Schiff should be investigated for (a) what he knew and (b) when he knew it
regarding Demorats' collusion to undermine the 2016 presidential election.

15 posted on 02/08/2019 7:56:54 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who can file the ethics complaint like they did with Nunes...?


16 posted on 02/08/2019 7:59:15 AM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not one Repuke will call for his recusal.


17 posted on 02/08/2019 8:09:54 AM PST by wiseprince
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Imagine this: A GOP rep takes a call from someone posing as a Russian who says he has compromising nude pictures of Obama. The GOP rep does not report it, instead says thank you and let my office the contact details so he can “get them out there”.
Well this is exactly what that little weasel Schiff did. It was recorded by the pranker and the MSM killed the story deader then Vince Foster.


18 posted on 02/08/2019 8:26:56 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats never recuse.


19 posted on 02/08/2019 8:29:58 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

0bama’s weaponized DOJ, FBI and the DNC/media THOUGHT they had a fail safe insurance policy.

Don’t believe me? Just ask Andy McCabe and Struck Stroke, they will tell you.

5.56mm


20 posted on 02/08/2019 8:36:33 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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