Trump's purge is about to get much worse. Schiff just sent up a flare.

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Trump’s purge is about to get much worse. Schiff just sent up a flare.

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
April 7, 2020 at 4:07 p.m. EDT

After President Trump fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, he didn’t bother disguising his true reason for doing so: because that IG had conducted his lawful duties in a manner that resulted in Trump being held accountable for his misdeeds and corruption.

As Trump himself put it, Michael Atkinson, the fired IG, had done a “terrible job.” How so? Easy: Atkinson had evaluated the whistleblower complaint exposing Trump’s Ukraine shakedown scheme with procedural correctness.

“He took a fake report and he brought it to Congress,” Trump said. That’s what Atkinson was supposed to do, and the complaint turned out to be almost entirely accurate, leading to Trump getting justly impeached over the extraordinary misconduct that came out as a result.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) just announced that the House Intelligence Committee, which he chairs, will be examining Trump’s firing of Atkinson. And buried in Schiff’s letter making this announcement is an unsettling glimpse of where all this could be going.

Schiff’s letter, which is addressed to acting director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, expresses Schiff’s concern that Grenell is politicizing that office on Trump’s behalf, noting that every Senate-confirmed person in the DNI has been removed.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/07/trumps-purge-is-about-get-much-worse-schiff-just-sent-up-flare/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. The article in the Washington Post is very well written and clear in what it says.

tRump behaves just the way he always has: he does just what he wants and no possible consequences will stop him.

He feels invulnerable and that is extremely dangerous for what's left of our democracy.

Schiff sees all of this very clearly.

[yaesu]

2. tRump getting more work done for putin. nt

[keithbvadu2]

5. Putting money into Trump was the best investment Putin ever made.

[panfluteman]

6. Exactly! Remaking the DNI to be Putin-friendly is right at the top of Uncle Vlad's wish list!

[CloudWatcher]

3. Impeach him again.

Trump needs to be the first president to be impeached twice. Even if the Senate again does nothing, we've at least got to point out the criminality of this administration.

[caraher]

7. Yes

Continued criminal behavior merits repeated prosecution.

Also, this time perhaps some Senate Republicans can use the crisis as cover for a vote to remove a manifestly... incompetent at best... president.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Yes!

[ananda]

4. Here is a site that shows the entire letter.

https://www.axios.com/adam-schiff-trump-inspectors-general-ric-grenell-dfa73706-c3f3-4a44-aae3-ec66a86bc30c.html

[dalton99a]

9. Pdf at:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6827208/Adam-Schiff-Letter-to-Acting-DNI-Director-Ric.pdf

[Mc Mike]

10. noting that every Senate-confirmed person in the DNI has been removed.

No puppet. No collusion.

[lagomorph777]

11. "You're the puppet!"

"I'm rubber and you're glue..."

[Mc Mike]

12. No one's been tougher on russia and putin.

I don't see any reason why it WOULD be russia. I mean I don't not see any reason why not it WOULDN'T not be putin.

Still, wouldn't it be nice if we could get along with russia? They should be allowed back in the G-7. Just sayin.