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Republicans want Adam Schiff to confirm whistleblower’s identity

October 31, 2019

Republicans want Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to confirm the identity of the Ukraine whistleblower after the previously anonymous CIA officer’s name was reportedly exposed on Wednesday.

For weeks, Schiff has sought to keep the whistleblower hidden, even as his party seeks to impeach the president based on the informant’s accusations that President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. But a new report identified the whistleblower as 33-year-old Eric Ciaramella, a CIA officer from the Obama administration with connections to Biden and John Brennan, top enemies of Trump.

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whistleblower. Only one member knows and that’s Adam Schiff,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told the Washington Examiner.

Dems say whistleblower not relevant

After initially saying that the whistleblower’s testimony was crucial to their impeachment effort, Democrats reversed course in recent days, saying that that the whistleblower is no longer relevant now that a stream of witnesses have corroborated his account. Republicans hammered Democrats over the pivot, accusing them of wanting to hide the whistleblower only after it was revealed that Schiff had foreknowledgeof the that person’s complaint and subsequently lied about the fact.

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Republicans have pointed to the whistleblower’s contacts with Schiff as just one reason to question his credibility and motives. But there’s more where that came from after RealClearInvestigations purported to unmask the whistleblower as an anti-Trump registered Democrat and a hold-over from the Obama administration.

The whistleblower reportedly worked for John Brennan, the former CIA chief under President Barack Obama and a sworn enemy of Trump. The former National Security Council staffer also once worked for Joe Biden on Ukraine policy, when Biden was Obama’s “point man” for Kiev and left his NSC position in 2017 amid “passionate” disagreements with President Trump’s foreign policy on Russia and Ukraine.

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The whistleblower’s Democrat-linked lawyers, who have repeatedly compared efforts to identify the whistleblower to inciting violence, slammed the report naming the officer as the “pinnacle of irresponsibility” and refused to verify his identity. Republicans are refusing to say whether the report is accurate, calling on Schiff to confirm the whistleblower’s identity.

Schiff blocks unmasking efforts

Trump has repeatedly pressed Democrats to identify the whistleblower in recent days, but Democrats are ignoring his grievances as they continue to depose witnesses in the Capitol basement. Republicans pressed Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, a former member of Trump’s National Security Council (and Ciaramella’s apparent successor) to name the whistleblower during a closed-door hearing Tuesday, but Schiff blocked their efforts.

Republicans scolded Schiff in a letter last week demanding that the whistleblower be identified “to fully assess the sources and credibility of the employee.” They also stormed the secure facility where Schiff has been holding secret hearings in protest of the “Soviet-style” process Democrats have been running.

Democrats finally voted to “authorize” procedures for their impeachment inquiry Thursday, in an apparent effort to neutralize Republican complaints about the process. However, Republicans say the inquiry is a sham and that the vote was tantamount to putting lipstick on a pig.

If the report about the whistleblower is true, then it’s no wonder that Schiff and his fellow Democrats wanted to hide him. The Democrats need to maintain some plausible deniability that they are really impeaching Trump out of patriotic duty, rather than a transparent political motive to influence the 2020 election.

Democrats were prepared to move forward with impeaching a sitting president while doing everything possible to obscure the identity and possible motives of the anonymous bureaucrat who started this whole proceeding. But it looks like their efforts to conceal their agenda may finally be unraveling.

Trump Calls Pelosi’s Bluff

Betsy McCaughey

Nov 1, 2019

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President Donald Trump has repeatedly slammed the secret impeachment hearings in the Capitol basement as “a totally compromised kangaroo court.” Sounds like Speaker Nancy Pelosi got the message. On Monday, she announced the full House will vote to formally launch impeachment proceedings, which will be out in the open instead of in the dark.

Until now, Democrats have been trying to trick the public into believing they’ve got the goods on Trump. But the truth is, none of the witnesses they’ve called so far have had any firsthand knowledge of presidential wrongdoing.

Behind closed doors and with no press allowed, House Democrats have tried to put on the appearance of a legal proceeding. At the end of each session, they leak to the press what they claim happened. The media are all too willing to play along, printing the Democratic pols’ claims as if they were fact. “Powerful testimony from multiple state and national security officials,” the Hill reports, adding up to a “scathing picture of Trump and his allies withholding nearly $400 million in security aid from Ukraine.”

Politico called Ukrainian Ambassador Bill Taylor’s testimony “explosive,” though Taylor’s prepared statement merely regurgitated what other State Department minions had told him. His source was the rumor mill. In law, it’s called hearsay.

The New York Times reports “a rapidly moving investigation securing damning testimony.” That’s hardly the case. But soon the jig will be up. Regardless of how many “witnesses” the Dems parade into the Capitol hearing, it won’t matter if they have no firsthand knowledge. Even the Times concedes that to impeach a president, the House needs proof “tying him directly” to wrongdoing.

Before Pelosi’s announcement on Monday, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, who’s overseeing the secret hearings, gave up on calling witnesses who have direct, firsthand working relationships with Trump and can attest to what the president has said and done.

Schiff caved after a key witness actually challenged the committee’s subpoena as illegitimate and said see you in court. Charles Kupperman, former deputy national security adviser — and one of the few people who was on Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president — filed a lawsuit, arguing that the House committee can’t compel testimony for an impeachment until the full House has voted to authorize subpoenas for that purpose. That, of course, is the vote Pelosi was dodging.

“We are not willing to allow the White House to engage us in a lengthy game of rope-a-dope with the courts,” Schiff said. Translation: Dems don’t think they’d win in the highest court.

They also don’t want to risk dragging the inquiry on for months, as they did with the Mueller investigation. Better to ram anything through. After all, without evidence of grave wrongdoing, the Republican-controlled Senate won’t remove this president from office. But Dems have one goal: to impeach Trump, damaging him enough to tip the 2020 election.

Schiff’s cynical decision not to meet Kupperman in court indicates he’s also not going to press for testimony from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry or former National Security Adviser John Bolton — advisers who actually know the facts about Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. Additional witnesses are scheduled to appear before Schiff’s committee later this week. But they’ll likely offer more of the same, predicts Mark Meadows, R-N.C., an Intelligence Committee member witnessing the charade. “It’s always people who talked to people who have talked to other people who think that he might have meant this,” says Meadows.

Meanwhile, Trump released the transcript of his July 25 call with the Ukrainian president. He didn’t have to. If there’s any kind of presidential communication that’s legally protected, it’s conversation between two heads of state. Even so, Democrats and their media allies claim the call is damning evidence of a quid pro quo. All you have to do to see that that’s false is read the words yourself.

The public’s not stupid, and Pelosi is a far better politician than Schiff. Polls show fewer than half of voters support impeachment in key swing states like Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. These are states Trump won in 2016, and Pelosi has been reluctant to put Democratic members from these states on the spot. But Trump’s called her bluff. Now the Democrats will have to put up or shut up.

White House Releases Official Response To Dem Impeachment Inquiry Vote

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Posted October 31, 2019 in Politics

Shortly after the Democratic controlled House of Representatives voted 232-196 to formalize the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham released a statement, slamming the Democrats for their impeachment sham.

“The President has done nothing wrong, and the Democrats know it. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats’ unhinged obsession with this illegitimate impeachment proceeding does not hurt President Trump; it hurts the American people,” Grisham said in the statement.

“Instead of focusing on pressing issues that impact real families, like reducing gun violence, passing the USMCA, improving healthcare, lowering prescription drug costs, securing our southern border, and modernizing our aging infrastructure, the Democrats are choosing every day to waste time on a sham impeachment — a blatantly partisan attempt to destroy the President.”

The spokeswoman then went on to hammer the House for their secret hearings where Republican congress members are not allowed.

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“With today’s vote, Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats have done nothing more than enshrine unacceptable violations of due process into House rules. Speaker Pelosi, Chairman Schiff and the Democrats conducted secret, behind-closed-door meetings, blocked the Administration from participating, and have now voted to authorize a second round of hearings that still fails to provide any due process whatsoever to the Administration,” she said.

She concluded: “The Democrats want to render a verdict without giving the Administration a chance to mount a defense. That is unfair, unconstitutional, and fundamentally un-American.”

The Thursday vote comes after Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced earlier in the week that she would hold a vote in the House to formalize an impeachment inquiry against the President.

One of the most shocking revelations of the vote was how many Republicans voted in favor of the impeachment inquiry... ZERO! This revelation goes against many recent reports that suggest many Republicans in the House as well as Senate would vote against President Trump, in favor of impeachment.

“The Senate is likelier to remove Trump after impeachment than you think,” wrote a bogus Washington Post article earlier in the month. The article did however mention that “getting 20 out of 53 Republican senators to agree to boot him from office won’t be easy under any circumstances.”

For President Trump to be successfully impeached, there would need to be 67 Senators to vote in favor of impeachment and with a majority Republican Senate, this would be highly unlikely.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham recently spoke out on the ongoing impeachment inquiry, stating that not a single Republican in the Senate would vote to impeach the President.

“You have to accept that President Trump is president,” Graham said on Tuesday during an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News.

“That’s the problem. They don’t accept that President Trump won the election, and America hates a sore loser as much as any country on the planet. This is an unfair process being driven by sore losers and there is not one vote in the United States Senate to impeach President Trump based on this phone call because he did nothing wrong,” he added.

Graham quickly corrected himself saying that not a single vote “among Republicans” would vote for impeachment in the Senate.

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