The Russia interview transcripts were reluctantly released to the public by Adam Schiff late yesterday. Adam Schiff’s spin is that the two year delay is the fault of the White House.

Yes indeed, in his statement regarding the release of the interview transcripts, Schiff desperately insists that Trump and the campaign team did collude with Russia.

““From 2017 to 2018, the House Intelligence Committee conducted an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Despite the many barriers put in our way by the then-Republican Majority, and attempts by some key witnesses to lie to us and obstruct our investigation, the transcripts that we are releasing today show precisely what Special Counsel Robert Mueller also revealed: That the Trump campaign, and Donald Trump himself, invited illicit Russian help, made full use of that help, and then lied and obstructed the investigations in order to cover up this misconduct.”

Good grief. The dude just doesn’t know when to quit. Witnesses lied! The Republicans blockaded, but Mueller and I persisted!  

Schiff: After making use of Russia’s help with his first presidential campaign, President Trump pressed the Ukrainian president to help him in 2020 by withholding critical military aid to that country and a coveted head of state meeting.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 7, 2020

According to Adam Schiff, the fifty seven interviews PROVE that dammit Scooby, Russia collusion did happen!! Except that James Clapper disagreed. Furthermore, as the interview with Dan Coats shows, the Steele dossier information crap was alive and well during the questioning. 

“”I swear to you on the soul of my son, I had nothing to do with that prostitution. And for them to take me aside and raise that issue and then have it leaked,” Coats recalled the president telling him. 

“He said, ‘how would you like it if — how do you go home and talk to your wife when it is plastered all over the place that you were using prostitutes in Russia and you are having your family hear that and having your son hear that?’ … He was just really, really impacted.””

Can you imagine? Having your young son, your wife, and all your family have to deal with the salacious crap that was in the Steele Dossier? And have Adam Schiff and all the other Democrats weaponize it with glee?

I bet it really chaps Adam Schiff’s hide that Christopher Steele has admitted in court that his dossier was a load of horse shit. Not only that, but Steele ALSO admitted under oath that he met with people from the DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and Mark Elias from Perkins Coie. By the way, Steele knows Bleach Bit very well. 

In fact, whether Adam Schiff likes it or not, Steele was schooled by the Russians. 

Never mind that. Adam Schiff is here to tell us that the interviews show Trump Russia and Ukraine collusion. Trump calling for Russia to hack Hillary’s emails during a campaign speech is the GOTCHA that proves unequivocally that collusion was in play. Except…

Fmr DNI Clapper: “I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/ conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election..That’s not to say that there weren’t concerns about the evidence we were seeing, anecdotal evidence"

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) May 7, 2020

I tell you what. Adam Schiff wouldn’t understand sarcasm if it walked up and Gibbs slapped him upside the head!

That is very true. When Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell stated that ALL the transcripts were ready to be released, and if Schiff didn’t release them, he would….that put Schifty on the hot seat. Especially when you consider the events in 2018. 

“The interviews were conducted in secret. But by September 2018, with the committee’s report long finished and made public, the Republicans who still controlled the committee decided the interview transcripts should be released to the public. In a rare moment of comity, Democrats agreed, and on September 26, 2018, the committee voted unanimously to release the transcripts. But there was a catch: The documents would have to first be checked for classified information by the Intelligence Community. So off they went to the IC — never to be seen again.”

As it turns out. The reviews of all the interview transcripts were completed in 2019. The person who could sign off on their release to the public? Adam Schiff.

Acting DNI Grenell planned on releasing these transcripts tomorrow at 10 a.m. Schiff then had no choice but to get ahead of it by releasing them today. ODNI also has them up now. https://t.co/I3pHRAOeJs

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 7, 2020

Now, after getting put on notice, he releases the transcripts and puts out a spin that is a thing of beauty. 

“These transcripts should have been released long before now, but the White House held up their release to the public by refusing to allow the Intelligence Community to make redactions on the basis of classified information, rather than White House political interests. Only now, and during a deadly pandemic, has the President released his hold on this damning information and evidence.”

Oh wow. There it is folks. This is a bold move by Trump to deflect from the Wuhan flu lung rot pandemic. 

Adam Schiff is Wile E Coyote to Trump’s Road Runner. He knows the effort is futile. Yet he’ll keep digging in hopes that one day, eventually, he’ll get his guy. 

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