{"id":40508,"date":"2019-02-08T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40508"},"modified":"2019-02-08T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:45:00","slug":"trump-wallows-in-wacky-conspiracy-theories-about-intelligence-committee-chair-adam-schiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40508","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wallows in Wacky Conspiracy Theories About Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff"},"content":{"rendered":"

In another Twitter outburst that has become commonplace with our Tweeter-in-Chief, Donald Trump has taken off on a wildly deranged line of attack<\/a><\/strong> aimed at Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He’s doing everything he can to disparage and discredit him, because those are the only tools he has left. It isn’t surprising that Trump would seek to smear Schiff considering that he has the authority to uncover a broad array of the crimes that Trump would prefer remain hidden.<\/p>\n

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Ever since the November election when Democrats became the majority party in the House of Representatives, Trump has exhibited an increasingly fearful demeanor. During the previous Congress, Trump had the luxury of having a Republican chairing this committee, Devin Nunes, who was a reliable accomplice in his obstruction of justice. Now, for the first time, Trump is facing an honest investigatory environment and real accountability. As a result, he has resorted to infantile name calling (i.e. Adam Schitt<\/a><\/strong>) and the dissemination of lies and ludicrous conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

In the Friday morning tweetstorm, Trump went after Schiff over a silly article<\/a><\/strong> written by John Solomon for TheHill. Solomon is a notoriously right-wing partisan who frequently disgorges his nonsense on Fox News. What he stumbled on as the basis for this article was the fact that Schiff attended a security conference in Aspen and happened to bump into Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Christopher Steele of the “Steele Dossier”<\/em> fame. So Trump tweeted this:<\/p>\n

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Now we find out that Adam Schiff was spending time together in Aspen with Glenn Simpson of GPS Fusion, who wrote the fake and discredited Dossier, even though Simpson was testifying before Schiff. John Solomon of @thehill<\/a><\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n