Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) responded to Trump’s claim that he has been vindicated by the Russia indictments by saying that this president claims vindication anytime someone sneezes.
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— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 18, 2018
Transcript of Schiff on CNN’s State Of The Union:
Dana Bash: And I’m sure you saw the deputy attorney general rod Rosenstein make clear on Friday that the indictment does not allege, quote, any American was knowing — a knowing participant in this illegal activity. President Trump tweeted that his campaign, quote, did nothing wrong, no collusion. Congressman, you’ve seen the intelligence, do you think that this indictment suggests that it’s a case closed, no collusion?
Rep. Adam Schiff: No, of course not but this is a president who claims vindication anytime someone sneezes. What this indictment sets out is information about only one element of the Russia active measures campaign that involving their use of social media to influence attitudes, to motivate people to protest, to essentially infiltrate our political system through the cybersphere. It doesn’t contain any of the allegations that are really most known to the public and that is, the Russian hacking into the democratic institutions, the Russian publishing of stolen information. Now on that, the Trump campaign and Trump himself was very witting of what was going on. Indeed the whole country was when on October 7th the intelligence community told the country the Russians are behind this, they’re behind the hacking and the dumping but nonetheless the campaign continued to use those products of that element of the Russian campaign.
Adam Schiff isn’t swayed by Trump’s vindication claims
Rep. Schiff was right. Trump twists everything that happens in the Russia investigation as a vindication. If the next set of indictments come for people inside the White House, Trump will use them as vindication. It is what Trump does. He is flailing around on Twitter and trying to come up with a story that will stick. Trump also attacked Schiff on Twitter and tried to twist the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee’s words during the same interview to blame Obama for the Russian election interference.
Tweets of vindication aren’t going to enough to get Russia investigators like Adam Schiff and Special Counsel Robert Mueller off of his trail.
Awards and Professional Memberships
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association
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