Schiff’s a Frozen DVD

Someone with access to Trump’s July 25 conversation with Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, had to have blabbed about it. This “someone” betrayed Trump and protocol.

This “someone” could have been at the Ukraine end of the telephone call, translation and storage. This “someone” could have been a U.S. intelligence officer in the White House with access to the conversation. Loose lips, probably intentionally, led to another person, the one who filed the complaint with Schiff. [It now appears that it was a CIA person.]

We do not know who transmitted a version of the conversation to Adam Schiff. We do not know when this happened, if it did. We do not know the role Schiff and his aides played in creating the document by which the telephone call entered the public domain.

We do know that in August, Schiff was already accusing Trump of extorting Ukraine (through Giuliani) to investigate Biden. Schiff’s public comments may have led the lips to loosen and some form of the complaint flowing to him. Its ultimate form that became public, however, appears to have been worked on by his own aides or lawyers. See here.

Schiff’s August comments may already have been informed by his knowledge of some version of the phone call. Whatever his information was at that time, he had already made up his mind enough to go public with his view of Trump’s activity as extortion and endangering national security.

If Schiff in August had had solid grounds for his extortion charge, why didn’t he take further action? It appears that he wasn’t sure of his case. It also appears that he wanted the complaint to come from another source, not him, so as to lend it credibility. And it appears that even a premature complaint, one in which the complainer had no access to the actual phone call, was deemed sufficient by him to go further. Schiff probably engaged his own staff to work up the document once a complainer had been engaged.

Schiff’s actions are those of a man who has such deep suspicion of Trump’s character and aims that he seeks and finds confirmation of his suspicions where there is none. He indicts Trump in the strongest possible terms before he even hears the transcript of the phone call. Schiff seems really to believe that Trump threatens the existence of what he calls “our democracy“. However, when we examine Schiff’s statements over time, we find that he simply cannot accept Trump as president, no matter what the evidence shows.

For example, in February, 2019 he was insisting there is “ample evidence of collusion of the campaign”. He went on to cite stuff that doesn’t in the least show collusion with Russia, and neither could Mueller and his gang make anything of it.

Schiff is a frozen anti-Trump DVD (a stuck record). He was sorry in July that nothing impeachable could be found. His zeal to find some basis for impeaching Trump is by itself another reason to doubt his interpretation of the Trump-Zelensky call, an interpretation that’s been seized upon by many other Democrats.

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5:22 pm on September 27, 2019