Schiff: Get more info ‘every day’
Sees extra testimony on prez misconduct
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff vowed Sunday to keep investigating President Trump even after his panel submits its report about recently ended public testimony in the impeachment inquiry.
“I certainly think that the evidence that’s been produced overwhelmingly shows serious misconduct by the president,” the California Dem said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“The remarkable thing about this … is the facts are really not contested. It’s really not contested what the president did,” he added.
Schiff noted that the Trump administration has refused to comply with requests for information about the president’s plot to make Ukraine announce investigations into the Bidens and a conspiracy theory about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.
On Thursday, the House
Intelligence Committee concluded two weeks of hearings in which witnesses illustrated how Trump plotted to make military aid and a White House visit contingent on whether Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky would announce the probes. Dems say Trump’s pressure campaign amounted to an impeachable abuse of power in which he warped America’s foreign policy for personal political gain.
For the next step of the impeachment process, the Intelligence Committee will send its report to the Judiciary Committee as soon as the week of Dec. 2, according to Politico.
Schiff said investigators will keep looking into Trump’s alleged misconduct.
“We have continued to learn more information every day. And I think that is going to continue,” he said. “So, we may have to file addendums to that report. We may have other depositions and hearings to do.”
While Republicans have gone all-out to defend the president, prominent Dems continued to blast Trump through the weekend.
Presidential wannabe Sen. Amy Klobuchar called Trump’s Ukraine conspiracy “the global version of Watergate.”
“This is an impeachable offense,” the Minnesota pol said on ABC’s “This Week. “This is the global version of Watergate where a president is trying to get dirt on a political opponent from a world leader.”
Once Trump decided to put a hold on nearly $400 million in security aid to Ukraine, White House officials scrambled to come up with an afterthe-fact justification for the shocking move, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The White House counsel’s office found hundreds of emails in which officials including acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney tried to create an explanation for withholding the cash, the Post reported, citing unnamed sources.
Trump’s personal lawyer
Rudy Giuliani made a series of crazed statements.
The former mayor of NYC baselessly accused Biden of bribery on Trump-friendly Fox News on Saturday, adding that the respected former veep sounded like a “poor imitation of ‘The Godfather.’”
He also claimed on Twitter to have “files in my safe” on the Bidens that he’ll release if he “disappears.”
Congress is on recess for Thanksgiving. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has urged her party to “hit the ground running” in December, when the Judiciary Committee is expected to draft and vote on articles of impeachment.
Looking to the past two weeks of testimony, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that Dems are as committed as ever to impeaching Trump.
“I don’t think any Democrat in the Congress looked at what happened the last two weeks and said, ‘Gosh, there’s nothing there,’ ” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”