Posted on 11/17/2019 11:52:03 AM PST by blam
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released the long-awaited transcript from senior National Security Council official Tim Morrison on Saturday, and immediately distorted it for the benefit of the anti-Trump media.
It was a typical example of how Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and his staff have tried to skew the fact-finding process in an effort to inflate public support for impeachment, believing few will read the lengthy transcripts for themselves.
First, the committee withheld the transcript since October 31, only releasing it after the first public hearings began last week. Morrison’s testimony was rumored to be very good for President Donald Trump’s defense — Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) had described Democrats in the room during the closed-door hearing as “sucking lemons” — and Republicans would have made good use of it, had they had the transcript available. But it was not provided.
In the interim, Democrats had sole possession of the document. Schiff does not allow copies of the transcripts to be released to Republicans, either in paper or electronic form. If they want to read transcripts, they must do so one by one, in the presence of a Democrat committee staffer. Not only is that rule humiliating, but it also allows Democrats to control the flow of information and to prepare their public arguments with no fear of timely Republican rebuttal.
In the Morrison case, Democrats released “key excerpts” that highlighted the few facts in his testimony that, they believe, help push the case for impeachment. Chief among these is that Morrison confirmed that he heard U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland claim that he told a Ukrainian official, in a private “sidebar” meeting, that aid would be released if the Ukrainian prosecutor general would publicly announce an investigation into Burisma.
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Q: Is the that a crime in itself? It smacks of conspiracy.
If the Democrats actually have the guts to go through with impeachment, the Republicans in the Senate must immediately move for an acquittal based upon a biased investigation. This particular incident described here will be one of the many different counts of bias. There are multiple cases of them refusing to allow the Republicans to have access to evidence, or to ask questions of witnesses, or to even call their own witnesses who might possibly rebut what the investigation is clearly intended to conclude. In addition, Schiff’s refusal to allow Jim Jordan to speak when he made a point of order is a gross violation of the rules of the House, and if this was a trial or even a grand jury anywhere else, that one incident would result in a mistrial.
I have pointed out in another thread that Saturday’s Morrison testimony has been released and is helpful to the President. His characterization of Vindman is less than flattering and he calls out that he is a leaker. He also is less than complimentary about Sondland making him appear as a self aggrandizing fool.
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=849
Well, they all know Donald Trump did “something wrong”, actual charges to be determined at a future time, so this is the only way to treat him.
If this sort of treatment was ministered to a suspect while in custody at a county jail, the sheriff and any of the deputies involved would be subject to trial and face serious fines or even some prison time.
But this, this is just blood sport.
Putting together evidence for a Trial is not the Dems Forte
Schiff needs to be hung. Maybe Ed Buck can work something out.
Should be interesting. Appears from this article that Morrison is a witness FOR the President.
Or am I reading something wrong.
Not bragging cause I really am no genius. but watching Chris Matthews interview Scalise left me very disappointed that Scalise knew less than I do. For one thing the MSM and the democrats always characterize the “investigation” as opposition research of Joe Biden. It is totally not in the transcripts that way. The few times Trump references investigation, he is referencing Burisma and general corruption.
Shifty Schiff caught lying again.
Only if the hang him on the capital mall, sell tickets and use the proceeds to fund the border wall
I meant Chris Wallace not Matthews, but is there really a difference?
Why are the republicans allowing this to go on? It is a shameful show of arrogance and hatefulness toward President Trump and the Americans who elected him President.
This is worse than the star chambers.
Democrats continue to stab at the hornets nest. Only one outcome can result in this and it’s going to be horrific for everyone.
To me? No.
To the MSM
Boogaloo.
That would be the absolute WORST thing for the R’s to do. The Dems are putting us through a sham investigation. The Senate should do a TRUE investigation, going into detail on all the shenanigans the Dems were doing in the Ukraine prior to the election.
I know lots of folks on this board hate Glenn Beck, but he’s put together some absolutely amazing information & it’s all available on YouTube. Every conservative/Republican should watch it & then they should bring it to the attention of their respective Congressmen & Senators.
The REAL collusion to subvert the 2016 election was between the Dems & people in Ukraine, & that needs to be made abundantly clear to the American people before November 2020.
But this, this is just blood sport.
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