.@RepAdamSchiff: "If someone sacrifices the national interests in favor of his own and is not removed from office, our democracy is in jeopardy. It's just that simple."
@RepAdamSchiff .@RepAdamSchiff: "This is Trump first, not America first, not American ideals first, and the result has and will continue to be grave harm to our nation if this chamber does not stand up and say it is wrong."
@RepAdamSchiff "Support for Ukraine security and reform is critical not only to our own national security, but that to other allies and emerging democracies around the world. This widely accepted fact makes Trump's abuse of power and withholding of vital support all the more disturbing."
@RepAdamSchiff The Trump administration understood the importance of aiding Ukraine in 2017.
They understood it in 2018.
They understood it in 2019—until suddenly, they threw it all away for help with Trump's political campaign.
They understood it in 2018.
They understood it in 2019—until suddenly, they threw it all away for help with Trump's political campaign.
@RepAdamSchiff "If we're going to condition support for our allies on their willingness to to be dragged kicking and screaming into our politics, if we're going to condition the strength of our alliance on whether they'll help us cheat an election, we're not going to have a single ally left."
@RepAdamSchiff "President Trump's self-serving scheme threatened to undermine Zelensky's anticorruption work...President Trump was not fighting to end corruption in Ukraine...He was trying to aim corruption in Ukraine at Vice President Biden and our 2020 election."
@RepAdamSchiff "In our democracy power flows from the will of the people...One person, one vote is fundamental in our democracy. Trump's invitation of foreign interference in the 2020 election...undercut the Constitution's commitment to popular sovereignty."
@RepAdamSchiff "We must not become numb to foreign interference in our elections....If we do not act to put an end to the solicitation of foreign interference in our election by the President of the United States, the effect will be corrosive to our elections and our values."
@RepAdamSchiff Reminder: Trump didn't just bring up conspiracy theories about the DNC server to Zelensky.
He also regurgitated the Kremlin's conspiracy theory in his June 2018 press conference with Putin in Helsinki.
He also regurgitated the Kremlin's conspiracy theory in his June 2018 press conference with Putin in Helsinki.
@RepAdamSchiff Trump's adoption of Kremlin talking points may be the greatest propaganda coup in history—even before you consider how it led to Trump's extortion scheme in Ukraine.
@RepAdamSchiff "They got the president of the United States to withhold aid from Ukraine in a war with Russia...because a former mayor of New York persuaded a President of the United States to sacrifice all of that for a cheap shot at his political opponent."
@RepAdamSchiff "We can see a pattern here. Trump solicited interference from Russia as a candidate in 2016, and then his campaign welcomed Russian interference. In Helsinki, Trump chose to believe Putin over his own agencies."
And then, he used Putin's propaganda to extort Ukraine.
And then, he used Putin's propaganda to extort Ukraine.
@RepAdamSchiff Over and over, it's been the same story: Against all advice from his aides, Trump has repeatedly clung to Putin's propaganda about 2016 in ways that undermine American democracy.
@RepAdamSchiff "President Trump's betrayal began in 2016 when he first solicited Russian interference in our election...He is still trying to cheat in the next election, even after the scheme came to light, even after it became the subject of an impeachment inquiry."
@RepAdamSchiff "Do you think for a moment that any of you, no matter what your relationship with this president, no matter how close you are to this president, do you think for a moment that if he felt it was in his interest, he wouldn't ask you to be investigated?"
@RepAdamSchiff Trump's corrupt scheme has only continued. Even while Trump is being impeached, Rudy Giuliani has been criss-crossing Eastern Europe, pressing Ukrainian officials for dirt on Trump's political opponents and fraudulent investigations.
@RepAdamSchiff "If [Trump] has learned anything from the tumult of the last three years, it is he can get away with anything. He can do it again. Can't be indicted, can't be impeached, can't if you believe our attorney general even be investigated."
The only remedy is conviction and removal.
The only remedy is conviction and removal.
@RepAdamSchiff "Our founders understood that a president like Donald Trump might one day grasp the reins of power, an unremorseful overreaching executive faithful to himself only and willing to sacrifice our democracy and national security for his own personal advantage."
@RepAdamSchiff "The threat that he will continue to abuse his power and cause grave harm to the nation over the course of the next year is not hypothetical...President Trump has abused the power of his office and must be removed from that office."
