Despite their professed “solemnity,” @SpeakerPelosi chose to place carnival barkers in charge of an unhinged debacle
Trump defense team signals focus on @RepAdamSchiff thehill.com/regulation/cou…
Trump defense team signals focus on @RepAdamSchiff thehill.com/regulation/cou…
Addressing the Senate on Saturday, Trump’s lawyers accused Schiff of repeatedly stretching the truth and creating false impressions amid his pursuit to take down the president.
Trump’s lawyers contrasted Schiff’s claim with Mueller’s conclusion that his nearly two-year probe had established no coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
The defense team also accused Schiff and his staff of coaching the whistleblower, who raised a red flag over Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president that set in motion the impeachment.
They paired the allegation with a clip of Schiff asserting on national television that “we have not spoken directly with the whistleblower,” a claim which fact-checkers found was false.
Senators were also shown a video of Schiff delivering a dramatized reenactment of the readout from Trump’s July 25 call.
“That’s fake,” deputy White House counsel Mike Purpura said of Schiff’s performance. “That's not the real call. That's not the evidence here."
