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Our own Veritas Omnia Vincit is here with his impressions of Adam Bennett Schiff, U.S. Representative for CA’s 28th district, a Democrat stronghold in Los Angles County. He happens to be Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and I’ll let the irony lay right there.<\/p>\n
When collusion isn\u2019t a crime what to do, what to do\u2026or should Schiff resign?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMy colleagues might think it\u2019s OK that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what\u2019s described as the Russian government\u2019s effort to help the Trump campaign,\u201d he said. \u201cMy colleagues might think it\u2019s OK that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help \u2014 no, instead that son said he would \u2018love\u2019 the help with the Russians. You might think it was ok that he took that meeting. You might think it\u2019s ok that Paul Manafort, the campaign chair, someone with great experience running campaigns, also took that meeting. You might think it\u2019s ok that the president\u2019s son-in-law also took that meeting. You might think it\u2019s ok that they concealed it from the public. You might think it\u2019s ok that their only disappointment after that meeting was that the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasn\u2019t better. You might think it\u2019s OK. I don\u2019t.\u201d – Adam Schiff March 28, 2019<\/p>\n Schiff has been saying for the duration of the investigation he had seen the evidence of collusion. That\u2019s great except there is no federal crime that is identified as collusion. There are conspiracy laws, there are federal election laws, there are not collusion laws. Collusion with a foreign entity might involve those other actual offenses against the law and that was what the investigation sought to discover.<\/p>\n Any good prosecutor or defense attorney will tell you that it\u2019s not ever about what you think you know, it\u2019s about what you know you can prove. It\u2019s time for Representative Schiff to put up or shut up. His comments above are nothing more than his indications of actions he doesn\u2019t much care for by the current administration and once again nothing in what he doesn\u2019t like in the comment is a criminal act.<\/p>\n As an American citizen there were a great many things I didn\u2019t like about the previous administration\u2019s actions. I wasn\u2019t fond of the guns for drug runners program, I wasn\u2019t fond of increasing the number of nations we were bombing without any declaration of war or expansion by Congress of the AUMF agreement from the Bush administration. I wasn\u2019t fond of being penalized for being healthy by being forced to buy a private company\u2019s health insurance product. None of those things however were criminal in nature regardless of how I think about them.<\/p>\n Schiff and others would like to rewrite the Mueller report and make those things that might have been distasteful or outside the normal political arena and suddenly make them criminal to fulfill their fantasy of impeaching Trump. That\u2019s a dangerous path to head down for any political party and shows me once again just how short sighted many of the current Democrats in supposed positions of leadership are on a regular basis. Just as the Republicans failed to make any significant case over Benghazi the Democrats are now failing to make a significant case over collusion. Benghazi was not a winning platform element for Republicans, collusion will not be a winning element for Democrats either. It\u2019s always interesting that the party infrastructure often fails to recognize those moments when they willingly put on an Albatross necklace and step out into public.<\/p>\n High crimes are not apparent in the summation of the Mueller report, what will come of looking at the full report will undoubtedly be numerous moments of innuendo and backroom political machinations. None of which is now, nor has ever been actually criminal in nature regardless of how distasteful it appears to the public. They are continuing to press an issue forward that they believe wins them points based on liberal polling data. The same data they used to laugh at Trump\u2019s feeble campaign for president.<\/p>\n Consequently, what they all fail to realize is that no matter what happens to Trump, Hillary Clinton will never be president of the United States. Never, not ever, not once, not twice, not ever. The Democrats currently running don\u2019t even want her shadow over their campaigns for fear of the taint associated with her and her husband.<\/p>\n As I\u2019ve said innumerable times on this very website, I\u2019m not a big Trump fan. However I\u2019m less of a fan of any politicians who will try and bend the law into a pretzel to achieve a singular outcome without regard for the damage they do to the rest of the nation in the process. In this regard I think Representative Schiff is overstepping his authority and may yet regret it in 2020.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if Schiff should resign or not over his comments, in his district I suspect if he\u2019s not elected some other asshole just like him will be elected. I welcome your thoughts on this as well.<\/p>\n If nothing else the Trump years have been wildly entertaining and interesting for those of us who are political junkies.<\/p>\n VoV<\/p>\n