Posted on 11/24/2019 10:09:12 AM PST by Mariner
Despite two weeks of extraordinary impeachment hearings, which amassed a dozen witnesses and over 30 hours of testimony, there was one person the public and Democratic-led House of Representatives did not get to hear from: the still-anonymous whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd the committee wanted to call for the whistleblower’s testimony but declined to do so for a pair of reasons.
“You did pledge that the intelligence committee would hear from the whistleblower in some form or another,” Todd said. “Are you going to fulfill that pledge?”
“We had a deep interest in having the whistleblower testify until two things happened,” Schiff said. “One, we were able to prove everything in the whistleblower complaint with witnesses that had firsthand information; and second, the president and his allies effectively put that whistleblower’s life in danger.”
He continued: “The president said the whistleblower and others should be treated as a traitor or a spy and we ought to use the penalty we used to use for traitors and spies, and that’s the death penalty."
“So here’s the thing, Chuck, we don’t need the whistleblower secondhand evidence anymore,” Schiff added. “It would only serve to endanger this person and to gratify the president’s desire for retribution and that is not a good enough reason to bring in the whistleblower.”
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And it smells of desperation.
Where are the rest of the Democrats? It's been pretty quiet except for the occasional fart from Pelosi.
The Whistleblower is about as real as Obama’s birth certificate. More than likely, Schitt is the whistleblower.
Schiffhead: all he had was “secondhand” evidence. You mean more hearsay?
That about sums it up. He had nothing that could help the Democrats and in fact could only hurt them.
This impeachment farce was much ado about nothing.
Ain’t heard none that.
This is the impeachment of the President of the United States....not some judge in a local court.
I'd look in the rules to see if he can retract his complaint without penalty.
He admits it was all second hand.
I can’t believe - refuse to believe that this will be accepted by ANYONE.....
Yahoo “news” -read no further.
Biggest pack of lies I ever heard on a Sunday show and it came with all the excuses for Democrat failure. LMAO!
Maybe he has already been arkancided.
I watched schiff for brains on cnn this morning.
He’s nukken futs, Jim.
Kadia Tubman? Where do these names come from?
Schiff longs to be a scriptwriter in the Hollywood scene. A scriptwriter can always write any storyline, or story plot to progress as he/she sees fit from the beginning to the ending of the story he/she is writing.
It’s apparent Schiff should follow his dreams, but not as a representative of the people in Congress. In Schiff’s case every story is fiction.
PDJT dropped them from the decision making process because he is the President and they got an attitude about it.
Which means the shitt show is all they have, not any actual evidence.
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with witnesses that had firsthand information
= = =
All that means is that Shifty wipes his own butt.
If he had nothing, why would the President want to arkancide him? Makes no sense whatsoever.
Whether he is or isn’t Eric Ciamarella, in light of Schiff’s admission, is now irrelevant.
This chump was a former prosecutor,, now a Grand Inquisitor? based on what, some district where stoned is normal?
So, Mr Schiff, you admit that the so-called whistleblower's evidence was second hand.
Based on that alone, the whole impeachment fiasco should never have happened.
The LYIN’-SACK-O-SCHIFF is lying AGAIN? (Shocked face)
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