Adam Schiff Closing Argument: Russia Carried out ‘Coup’ Against U.S. By Manipulating Trump
Breitbart, Jan 24, 2020

Schiff, delivering the closing address on the third day of House Democrats’ opening argument on the first article of impeachment, claimed that Russia had done a “psychological profile” of Trump and manipulated him into believing Russian intelligence.

Drawing selectively from the president’s past statements, Schiff claimed that Trump believed Russia’s claims that Ukraine had interfered with the 2016 presidential election, ignoring U.S. intelligence agencies’ assessments.

In fact, Trump has acknowledged for years that Russia “meddled” in the last presidential election, explicitly saying that he accepted the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies, though he says he did not think Russia’s intervention affected the outcome, and he also has long believed that “others” also attempted to influence the outcome.

Schiff portrayed Trump as a puppet being controlled by Russia: “It’s not just a propaganda coup, it’s not just the undermining of our agencies. It’s also that the buy-in to that propaganda meant that Ukraine wasn’t going to get money to fight the Russians. I mean, that’s one hell of a Russian intelligence coup. … Has there ever been such a coup? I would submit to you that in the entire length of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had no such success.”

In fact, Trump provided, and has continued to provide lethal military aid to Ukraine, unlike President Barack Obama.

Going further, Schiff accused Trump of “betrayal” of his country, playing a debunked video clip of then-candidate Trump allegedly inviting Russia to interfere in the presidential election (Trump was joking at a press conference).

Schiff urged the Senate to remove Trump from office because of the risk of having a president so easily manipulated, and who would “coerce an ally” to investigate a political opponent.

“You cannot leave a man like that in office.”


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/...pulating-trump/

I suspect this is the first time GOP Senators have actually heard the ravings of Adam Schiff, et al .... I doubt they paid attention through all the inquiries.

Would love to be a fly on the wall in the cloakroom.

Tea Party Patriots
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While Democrats continue to say there are 4 GOP Senators the American people should watch during the Senate Trial,

What they fail to mention is the 6 Democratic Senators to watch during the Impeachment Trial…

@MZHemingway explains ⬇️

https://twitter.com/tppatriots/status/12...0297197569?s=21

Rep. Andy Biggs
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HUGE error from Adam Schiff to make the closing argument about himself, the "whistleblower," & Hunter Biden.

Democrats have a grave fear of the next three days, when their lies will be exposed & the truth will be championed.

President @realDonaldTrump will soon be exonerated!

5:27 PM - 24 Jan 2020

https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/statu...880766244130821

Quote: Right_in_Virginia wrote in post #20

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Rep. Andy Biggs
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HUGE error from Adam Schiff to make the closing argument about himself, the "whistleblower," & Hunter Biden.

Democrats have a grave fear of the next three days, when their lies will be exposed & the truth will be championed.

President @realDonaldTrump will soon be exonerated!

5:27 PM - 24 Jan 2020

https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/statu...880766244130821

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The show starts at 10:00 am tomorrow, Saturday. It will be a couple of hours ... with the "rest of the story" on Monday and Tuesday.

@EdJames

Charlie Kirk
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Liberal Logic:

4 out of 7 House Impeachment Managers voted AGAINST sending lethal aid to Ukraine:

—Jerry Nadler

—Sylvia Garcia

—Hakeem Jeffries

—And Zoe Lofgren

And they want to impeach Trump for delaying the aid they voted against sending in the first place?


5:36 PM - 24 Jan 2020

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1220883146868047872

Senator Rand Paul
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36 hours of ad hominem attacks by Schiff et al can’t erase the irony that the Democrats are doing exactly what they accuse @realDonaldTrump of doing—abusing government to go after their political rival.

7:03 PM - 24 Jan 2020

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1220904917726003202

Quote: Right_in_Virginia wrote in post #26

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Senator Rand Paul
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36 hours of ad hominem attacks by Schiff et al can’t erase the irony that the Democrats are doing exactly what they accuse @realDonaldTrump of doing—abusing government to go after their political rival.

7:03 PM - 24 Jan 2020

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1220904917726003202

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House Democrats to Senate: Impeach Trump for Criticizing Impeachment on Twitter
Breitbart, Jan 24,2020

House Democrats claimed Friday afternoon in President Donald Trump’s Senate trial that his comments on Twitter, in press conferences, and at campaign rallies criticizing the impeachment inquiry were impeachable “obstruction.”

Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), opened the impeachment managers’ case on the second article of impeachment, for “obstruction of Congress,” noting that the president had told reporters that “there should be a way of stopping it, maybe legally, through the courts.”

She played a clip of him saying that, then continued:

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Soon after, President Trump took the matters into his own hands. The president used his authority, and his office, to wage a relentless and misleading public campaign to attack the impeachment inquiry. The president spent time at rallies, at press conferences, and on Twitter, trying to persuade the American people that the House’s inquiry was invalid and fraudulent. Here are just a few of the President Trump’s comments about the impeachment inquiry. He called it a “witch hunt”; a “coup”; an “unconstitutional power grab”; a “fraud against the American people.” He said, “It’s the phony impeachment scam”; “the phony impeachment hoax”; “the Ukraine hoax”; and “a continuation of the greatest scam and witch hunt in the history of our country.” And those are probably some of the ones I can repeat here. And it didn’t stop.

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Though Trump had said “legally, through the courts,” Garcia claimed that Trump’s rhetoric soon became “obstruction of Congress” because he did not submit to demands by the House — and instead criticized what the House was doing.

(Must watch this idiot) Video at link: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/...ent-on-twitter/