Schiff calls Trump disloyal to the country

Source: Washington Examiner | July 24, 2019 | Caitlin Yilek & Jerry Dunleavy

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report shows members of the Trump campaign, including President Trump, were disloyal to the country, even if they were not criminally charged in the investigation.

“Disloyalty to country. Those are strong words, but how else are we to describe a presidential campaign which did not inform the authorities of a foreign offer of dirt on their opponent, which did not publicly shun it, or turn it away, but which instead invited it, encouraged it, and made full use of it?” Schiff said in his opening statement in his panel’s hearing Wednesday afternoon.

“That disloyalty may not have been criminal,” the California Democrat continued. “Constrained by uncooperative witnesses, the destruction of documents and the use of encrypted communications, your team was not able to establish each of the elements of the crime of conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt, so not a provable crime, in any event. But, I think, maybe something worse. A crime is the violation of a law written by Congress. But disloyalty to country violates the very oath of citizenship, our devotion to a core principle on which our nation was founded, that we, the people, and not some foreign power that wishes us ill, we decide, who shall govern, us.”

Schiff also said that Mueller’s report “tells a story about lies” which included, in his view, lies about the abandoned Trump Tower Moscow, discussions with the Kremlin, the firing of FBI Director James Comey, the desire to fire Mueller as well, WikiLeaks, hush money payments, and the meeting at Trump Tower in New York in the summer of 2016.

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