Adam Schiff Is Prepping An Investigation Of Trump That'll Make Mueller's Look Like Child's Play

[babylonsister]

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Sat, Dec 15th, 2018 by Sean Colarossi
Adam Schiff Is Prepping An Investigation Of Trump That’ll Make Mueller’s Look Like Child’s Play


While Robert Mueller’s investigation has so far been thorough and far-reaching, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff – the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee – is preparing to dig into the president’s criminal activity in a way that could make the current special counsel probe look like child’s play.

During an interview with The New Yorker, “Schiff talked about his plans for conducting an investigation that will be parallel to Mueller’s, probing Trump’s connections to Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other places around the world.”

The New Yorker added: “As Schiff described his approach, it became clear that he wasn’t just planning to cross Trump’s red line—he intended to obliterate it.”

Schiff said that the role of the committee he will soon lead “is not the same as Bob Mueller’s.” Instead, he believes that in addition to finding criminal activity, Congress has an added responsibility to make the public aware of any corruption or wrongdoing.

“The American people have a right to know that their President is working on their behalf, not his family’s financial interests,” the powerful Democratic congressman told The New Yorker. “Right now, I don’t think any of us can have the confidence that that’s the case.”

More from The New Yorker:

Congressional committees, like the one Schiff will soon lead, are supposed to monitor the executive branch and expose wrongdoing. Mueller is supposed to file a report on his findings, but, in keeping with the regulations for the office of the special counsel, it will be up to his supervisor in the Justice Department, who is now Matthew Whitaker, the acting Attorney General, to determine whether Mueller’s report is made public. Schiff has his own agenda for areas to investigate. “The one that has always concerned me is the financial issues, which obviously have come much to the fore this week,” he said. Shortly before Schiff and I spoke, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, had pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about his role in the negotiations for building a Trump tower in Moscow. Cohen had said earlier that these discussions ended in January, 2016, but he admitted in court that he had been negotiating with Russian officials, and keeping Trump apprised, through the first half of 2016, during the Republican Presidential primaries. Trump has denied that he was doing business with the Russians during this period.

Schiff went on, “At the end of the day, what should concern us most is anything that can have a continuing impact on the foreign policy and national-security policy of the United States, and, if the Russians were laundering money for the Trump Organization, that would be totally compromising.” Schiff hypothesizes that Trump went beyond using his campaign and the Presidency as a vehicle for advancing his business interests, speculating that he may have shaped policy with an eye to expanding his fortune. “There’s a whole constellation of issues where that is essentially the center of gravity,” Schiff said. “Obviously, that issue is implicated in efforts to build Trump Tower in Moscow. It’s implicated in the money that Trump is bragging he was getting from the Saudis. And why shouldn’t he love the Saudis? He said he was making so much money from them.”

Everything will be on the table in Schiff’s investigation

The special counsel probe has turned up a lot of so-called witches over the past couple of years and it appears to be zeroing in on Trump and his family in a way that has the White House on edge.

But the scope of the investigation has largely been focused on two angles: Russian collusion and obstruction of justice.

Schiff’s upcoming investigation will have no such scope. Everything will be on the table, not just Russian collusion during the 2016 campaign or obstruction of justice.

The committee will look deep into the president’s finances, whether it’s possible Trump Organization money laundering or his shady business dealings with Saudi Arabia and other foreign entities.

In other words, Congress is finally going to start providing the oversight of Trump that it has neglected over the past two years.

[mucifer]

1. Interesting that's not what Schiff said

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He said in interviews on MSNBC that they are FAR behind Mueller in the investigation because Nunez did nothing and that Murller has far more resources than congress.

I am rooting for both Mueller and Schiff

I’m just referring to what Schiff said.

It’s also amazing the experience as a prosecutor that Schiff brings to the table.

[Rural_Progressive]

11. Let us not forget

soon to take center stage for the great state of New York, Letitia James. Let's give her a hand folks, ran on a platform of bringing Donnie O, his family his businesses and charitable organizations to justice. Won her election 62 to 36 percent.

And it's all going to happen at the state level where Donnie O has no ability to pardon anybody for anything.

Who said we weren't getting anything for the holidays?

[samnsara]

16. he would make a great AG

[JudyM]

31. He has been the model of restraint and discretion in the midst of witnessing great injustice.

Now let’s see him unleashed!

We did well, friends, in installing good people. Time now to reap what we’ve sown.

[Hortensis]

36. He wouldn't say it either. Mueller's investigating Trump-Russia.

Mueller's authority includes matters arising from the investigation, but it is not an investigation into Trump's criminal affairs in general.

[triron]

2. Trump already has numerous criminal and civil investigations on him and his organizations.

[erronis]

3. And there won't be any little devin running info from the Intelligence Committee over

to His Little Lowness. Slinking in the back door. Conspiring.

Treasonous bastards.

[mucifer]

4. Probably another repub on the committee will do it

[33taw]

6. Unless the dems play the game of closed hearings and limited access on reports.

As far as I am concerned, keep them in the dark.

[watoos]

13. I'm pretty sure they plan on having public hearings

so that we all can see what's going on.

[hot2na]

21. It has to be public

Remember that impeachment is a political process not a judicial process. Therefore he will be tried in the court of public opinion instead of a court of law. I hope that trump gets indicted while in office, however, if that does not happen then impeachment will be the process that removes him from office. Certainly he is game to be indicted after he leaves office but I don't think we should wait that long.

[red dog 1]

26. Welcome to DU!

[33taw]

23. I know it needs to be public. But classified info, will still be private.

If it is all public, no one will need to run to Trump. He can watch it on TV.

[Hekate]

5. The major difference to the public eye will be that Schiff &Committee will have open hearings...

...and transcripts and so forth versus Mueller's complete silence. Mueller "speaks" through his court filings and their results: no leaks, no boasts, no interviews -- just indictments.

For both of them, that is absolutely as it should be. Schiff will be playing catch-up because of all the GOP obstruction, and we need to see the process.

[watoos]

14. Oops, I posted before I read yours.

I agree.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Hmm how about all court filings against him? 4,000 or so?

Paperwork involved with his buildings he built? Check his air travel? Any media interviews.

Any functions he attended.

Put pressure on him to the point he wishes no one knew who he was.

[watoos]

15. He's scared shitless now. He is plain miserable.

I mean if it's true that he's snorting crushed up Adderall, that will get to him, sniff, sniff.

I keep saying this, but Trump isn't a tough guy, I see a nervous breakdown in his future. When Mueller goes after his kids look out, and I believe that Ivanka is the dirtiest of them all.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

8. Changing an old meme, just a little...

Drill, Schiff-y, Drill.

[Ponietz]

9. Here's the excellent New Yorker piece by Toobin:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/adam-schiffs-plans-to-obliterate-trumps-red-line

[wryter2000]

10. I cannot wait until January

And if any of them try ducking subpoenas, as some of the Bushies did, send their asses to jail.

Investing in popcorn stocks.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Can not wait for the State of California

to get involved with all the money Laundering that happened in California Banks as per Steele Dossier.

Do not forget,two FBI special agents resigned early on when things got rolling with campaign money discovery.

[watoos]

17. I can't wait for Butina to testify.

Funny how the NRA gave all that money to Trump, and maybe others, but when the FBI started to investigate their ties with Russia their campaign donations dropped 90%.

[Wellstone ruled]

20. Do know there are a few people in

South Dakota that are a bit skidish.

[ooky]

18. Yep, right after he removes Pence from it, he's got a big

powerful flashlight waiting to shine up Trump's asshole.

[PeeJ52]

19. It probably wasn't wise for tRump to call Congressman Schiff names...

I wonder if Congressman Schiff has that tweet framed on his wall in his office to remind him each day of the disrespect pResident tRump shows toward our democracy?

[smirkymonkey]

22. Hah! Bet he regrets calling him Liddle Adam Schitt now!

[Nitram]

24. "Adam Schiff Is Prepping An Investigation Of Trump That'll Make Mueller's Look Like Child's Play"

No, nothing Mueller has done could ever be compared to "child's play." I know hyperbole is fun, but...

[Fritz Walter]

25. But, but, but,... what about her Emails?!?

And by "her," I am referring to Iskanka, who was conducting White House business on an unsecured, personal email account. For months.
Not to mention the recent news about the money flowing through the inauguration committee, whose purse strings were never far from her grasp.
I'll bet she couldn't last 11 minutes under questioning by the House Committee on Intelligence.

[red dog 1]

28. "Lock her up!...Lock her up!...Lock her up!"

[AndJusticeForSome]

27. Finally, something to live for nt

[red dog 1]

29. Kick

Thanks for posting.

Adam Schiff for Veep?

[Amaryllis]

30. Ron Wyden has been a bulldog on this too. He is on senate intel, but I am sure he and Schiff will

be conferring on this. He's been saying follow the money and the trail of dead Russians for two years now, and that this needs to be made public and they can do that without compromising sources and methods. He has said from the election he will not rest till this is resolved and released to the public.

Even tho senate intel is still under GOP control, that doesn't stop the Dems from talking to their house counterparts on intel and judiciary.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

32. Adam Schiff Is Going To Crawl Up Trump's Ass With A Flashlight

Trump's going to WISH for a rectal exam by the time Schiff is done. He can literally make Trump's life a living hell.

[Honeycombe8]

33. Well, I hope so. But I hope that doesn't mean they don't move on his crimes...

if evidence shows from the Mueller report that he can be indicted on crimes, whether campaign finance or anything else.

Otherwise, we'll be in perpetual investigations for the foreseeable future.

We need to get a criminal out of office.

[ancianita]

34. I can't wait. I'll be watching every single day.

[jrandom421]

35. Isn't it ineresting that

Nancy Pelosi recruited Adam to run for Congress in 2001?