Posted on 11/04/2019 6:36:15 AM PST by MarvinStinson
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) is shedding light on the various ways in which House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has paved the way for himself to cheat in the ongoing “impeachment inquiry” in an interview on Breitbart News Daily.
The biggest issue? Schiff is allowed to block testimony from White House witnesses.
Scalise noted the “impeachment inquiry procedures” laid out in the recently voted-on House resolution which gives Schiff the power to reject any witnesses proposed by the Republican minority.
“There are sections of the resolution that allow the [Adam Schiff] to literally have veto power over Republican witnesses,” Scalise explained. “There’s a section in the resolution that allows the chairman to literally kick the president’s legal counsel out of the room out of the room if he so chooses, not because there has been some wrong that was done, [but] just because, all at the whim of the chairman.”
Scalise compared these procedures with to those of previous impeachment proceedings for presidents Nixon and Clinton.
“Under the Clinton and Nixon impeachments, both sides had the ability to call witnesses [and] to subpoena witnesses,” Scalise stated. “Also, the president had the legal power to have his legal counsel in the room to question witnesses. All of that, today, is at the discretion of [Adam Schiff].”
Schiff is also empowered to obstruct the Republican cross-examination of witnesses, Scalise noted.
“Just this week, [Adam Schiff] directed the witness to refuse to answer certain questions that were asked by Republicans on the committee,” Scalise said. “So [Adam Schiff] literally is telling the witness not to answer certain questions Republicans are asking. That happened this week.”
Schiff’s secretive hearings held in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) has been allowing the Democrats to selectively leak any information from witness’ testimony.
Witness testimony, Scalise added, contradicts “mainstream media” characterizations of the hearings’ developments.
“It’s almost like [this is] the only way that [Democrats] can get their false story out, because if this was open to the public, my goodness, all the things that we’re hearing about what happened in that room completely go against all the reports that we’re reading in the media, because the media is only getting the things that Adam Schiff leaks to them,” Scalise said.
He added, “I took a few [Republican] members down there a week and a half ago, and we went just to see what was going on, and it was amazing how as soon as we walked in the room — and we were there just to watch, we’re voting members of Congress — [Adam Schiff] gets the witness, runs out of the room, and they shut the thing down, because they don’t want people to see what’s going on in there.”
The Democrats’ impeachment efforts, Scalise declared, are an attempt to “nullify” the 2016 election.
This inquiry is such a political shame that words like charade, circus, shame etc don’t come close to describing the evil intent. This is sooo divisive and with the media collaboration it’s sick.
Glad to be back
GOP need to keep hammering away at this. The general public will need to be exposed at the unfairness and overboard behavior
Address the nation at prime time, point out the high crimes of the left and inform Americans that if they do not organize and arm themselves, the nation will be lost forever. There is no other way.
From what I hear on my car radio, some of this is getting through on the leftwing media news shows.
They will not rest until they force Trump to martial law. These traitors need to be rounded up and tried for treason.
I can’t remember the particulars but I heard someone say that Mitch McConnell can refuse to accept this sham into the Senate for further action.
WHY is Schiff even in office?? If an old photo of idiot Al Franken just making pretend he was groping a woman was enough to remove him from office, how is it OK for Schiff to try to incriminate a sitting POTUS by LYING?? Where the hell are Republicans? Why are they not calling for his resignation every second of every day?
The Republicans are having an open borders brunch hosted by the Koch crowd.
Exactly, from the moment the little scumbag read a damning, fabricated transcript at a congressional as fact the Republicans should have been screaming for head. Every day until he was removed. Just reverse the parties and imagine what would happen.
I suspect Trump is in control and will tell the Republicans when to call for Schiff’s resignation.
Didn’t Scalise vote for it?
It’s unreal how neutered Republicans are. If this was a civilian situation Schiff would have had his ass sued into bankruptcy.
Well the rethuglicants should just hold their own hearings!
Very funny parodies of Schiff....
If Trump were really a Republican, I suspect that there would be a rush to defend him. But because Trump is opposed to some of the policies that define today’s Republican Party (open borders, free trade, and Stupid Wars), I think many in the party would prefer a Democrat over him.
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT ASAP:
TALKING POINTS----State laws usually govern “fraudulent practices:”
<><> making it a third-degree felony to “knowingly and willfully make or use any false document,
<><> while knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry.
It is entirely possible Schiff violated Caifornia state laws including the state's election code.
According to California's Penal Code 470 PC:
Forgery is the act of doing any of the following with intent to commit a fraud:
<><>Signing someone else's name;
<><> Faking an official seal;
<><> Faking someone else's handwriting;
<><> Changing or falsifying a legal document;
<><> Faking, altering or presenting as genuine a false document.
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The DNC is the modern communist party with ONE AGENDA...to destroy America and our Constitutional Republic.
Of course they will lie and cheat to implement their totalitarian utopia.
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