Posted on 10/13/2019 3:59:28 PM PDT by jazusamo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that testimony from the intelligence community whistleblower at the center of the House impeachment inquiry against President Trump may no longer be necessary.
“Given that we already have the call record, we don't need the whistleblower who wasn't on the call to tell us what took place during the call,” he told Margaret Brennan during an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation."
“Before the president started threatening the whistleblower... we were interested in having the whistleblower come forward. Our primary interest right now is making sure that that person is protected."
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The whistleblower wrote a complaint about a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump pressed his counterpart to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The complaint was released to the public last month shortly after House Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry based on information about the call that had been made public.
The White House also previously released a readout of the call which confirmed much of the substance of the whistleblower's complaint.
Trump has accused the whistleblower of being biased against him and not having trustworthy information about the call, despite releasing the transcript.
The lawyers representing the whistleblower have expressed concern for their client's safety given Trump's comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
What makes you think they are going to allow us
to elect him again?
They made that mistake once, they won’t let that
happen a second time.
The left is driving this country to rebellion.
This is nothing more or less than the take over
of our political system.
In other words, the whistleblower doesn’t exist.
“Oops, we never thought Trump would release the actual transcript of the call...so...never mind.”
Someone told me Schiff hasn’t paid taxes in 10 years wonder if that’s true.
Boy he sure does.
The guy has no credibility left! None!
“Given that we already have the call record, we don’t need the whistleblower who wasn’t on the call to tell us what took place during the call,”
IOW there is no whistleblower.
It’s all a hoax. Every damn bit of this is a hoax. The democrats in the house had their cronies change the whistleblower rules to allow hearsay, then all of a sudden a whistleblower complaint by someone who wasn’t even privy to what was actually said on the call.
I would like it if the ending were repeated.
Yeah, they remember what happened to the Christine Blasey Faker.
That Schiff has stepped on his dick so many times he has named it Matt.
Because the whistleblower isn’t a whistleblower
There is no whistle blower...
We should demand something from the whistleblower so we really know there was one and Adam Schiff was not lying.
Well, no, adam shifty, you little pile of ordure, we have the transcript now, containing exact knowledge, so second and third hand is not necessary.
That’s rapidly becoming my take. The whole thing was ginned up by Shiff’s office.
Our primary interest right now is making sure that that person is protected.”
A couple of days ago Trump mentioned that he was thinking about suing Schiff. Maybe that had something to do with this change of heart.
Really, is any testimony necessary? Orange Man Bad = automatic impeachment. What more do they need?
Yep, no “maybe” about it in my view.
Yeah and it’s been really successful :)
About as successful as the impeachment of Bill.
Bill was GUILTY but still everyone knew he wasnt gonna get kicked out and it cost us house seats.
Don’t head to battle until it plays out.
And give Trump some credit for goodness’ sake
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