Trump Inquiry Won’t End With Impeachment Report, Schiff Says

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(Bloomberg) -- The investigation of misconduct by the Trump administration will continue even after a House committee submits an initial report that could lead to the impeachment of President Donald Trump, said the Democrat leading the proceedings.

“What we’re not prepared to do is wait months and months while the administration plays a game of rope-a-dope in an effort to try to stall,” Representative Adam Schiff of California, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” one of two appearances on Sunday talk shows.
Schiff said that the facts of what the president did “are really not contested” and that the Democratic case is “iron-clad.”
After two weeks of televised hearings, House impeachment lawmakers return behind closed doors this week for the next steps in their investigation of Trump; namely, turning factual findings into a formal report for the House Judiciary Committee.
Schiff said his committee will continue to collect documents and potentially conduct depositions or hearings after the report is sent.
“The investigation isn’t going to end,” Schiff said. On NBC’s “Meet the Press” he said he doesn’t “foreclose the possibility of” other public hearings.
‘Sense of Urgency’

Schiff said that “there is a sense of urgency” in finishing and sending on the report, in the face of threats of foreign interference in the 2020 elections, but would not commit to a specific time line. Democrats still hope to wrap up their impeachment efforts by Christmas.
The investigation into Trump, triggered by a whistle-blower’s report about his conduct on a July phone call with the president of Ukraine, was initially conducted with closed-door witness interviews and requests for documents.
But details exploded into view with the past two weeks’ public testimony from 12 career diplomats, civil servants and political appointees who described how Trump, through his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, tried to pressure Ukraine to announce an investigation into his potential Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
The testimony repeatedly drew attention to the senior administration figures that Trump has blocked from appearing, including Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton. Pursuing additional witnesses, even for depositions, would probably mean extending the Democrats’ time line.
Asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if Bolton should testify, Schiff said, “People like John Bolton, whose deputies had the courage to come in and testify, are going to have to answer one day why they saved what they knew for a book rather than tell the country when the country needed to know.”
Republicans and Trump have suggested that Schiff himself should be called to testify in a potential Senate trial. If that happened, the lawmaker said, “then they pretty much made the decision not to take this process seriously.”
Nadler Next

Up next is the task of distilling the evidence into a report with recommendations to be sent to Judiciary -- the panel helmed by Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York -- which will consider the document and formally draft and refer any articles of impeachment to the floor for a full House vote.
That next phase could involve public hearings as well, and in this round, Trump and his lawyers have the option of mounting a defense, including cross-examining any witnesses and requesting evidence. Whether they’ll choose to do so isn’t clear.
While the aim continues to be getting that report over to Judiciary by the end of November, Schiff hasn’t given an exact day.
No meeting -- even by phone -- had yet been scheduled as of Friday afternoon by Schiff with other Intelligence Committee Democrats to sort through any final decisions on how many articles of impeachment might be recommended, and for what.
“The case in terms of the Ukraine misconduct is iron-clad. But so is the case of the president’s obstruction of the Congress,” Schiff said on Sunday.
Senator Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, also on NBC, took issue with Schiff’s characterization and said Democrats didn’t produce enough to warrant Trump’s removal. “There was no direct evidence of pressure on the Ukrainian government to do a certain act in order for the aid to go forward,” Wicker said.
He also pointed to opinion polls showing support for impeachment is falling -- something Schiff said on CNN wasn’t a consideration for Democrats.
Separately, a U.S. judge is expected on Monday to rule on whether former White House Counsel Don McGahn must answer questions from the House Judiciary Committee, which sued to force his testimony.
Schiff, a former federal prosecutor, has become Trump’s main bogeyman during the impeachment hearings. The president has tweeted about the lawmaker dozens of times. He said Friday in an interview on Fox News that Schiff should be made to testify in a Senate impeachment trial, and reiterated that view on Saturday.


Schiff and Waters, Tlaib, and the foul foursome issue a joint statement:
-"we gon 'peach the MF, We gon 'peach the mf, We gon 'peach the MF "!!!!
Schiff and the DPST's state their "Inquiry" will go on , and on, and on, and on - We gon get the MF. We will carry on - even into 2032 and the Presidency of Chelsea Clinton!!!!
"We 'gon get the mf!!"

the dims are doing what they accuse president trump of doing

investigating the opposite party's front runner for political purposes

DPST's have no concept - they are clueless to their own hypocrisy.



'peach the MF" Their mantra!!

The Senate is like a hungry caged carnivore waiting for these idiots to enter. Schiff and company may enter but they won't leave. Hahahahahaha..................

The Senate is like a hungry caged carnivore waiting for these idiots to enter. Schiff and company may enter but they won't leave. Hahahahahaha.................. Originally Posted by Levianon17

Schiff is already out in front, trying to say being called to testify by the Senate won't matter because he's not a "fact witness". this means McConnell will call his punk ass. he knows he's got a lot to hide. he's already trying to get out of admitting his bullshittery.

he should have known the Senate can all their own witnesses including him and the whistleblower

yeah .. the Demontards didn't think this through did they?


BAHHAHAAAAAAAAAA

Schiff is already out in front, trying to say being called to testify by the Senate won't matter because he's not a "fact witness". this means McConnell will call his punk ass. he knows he's got a lot to hide. he's already trying to get out of admitting his bullshittery.

he should have known the Senate can all their own witnesses including him and the whistleblower

yeah .. the Demontards didn't think this through did they?


BAHHAHAAAAAAAAAA Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

they can't outsmart Trump. they outsmarted themselves.

The only way the DPST's get out of this "Inquiry" is to never send it to the Senate with a vote on Articles of Impeachment. Keeps Schiff out of the Senate purview, unless the Senate judiciary committee comew after him - and they might when his abuses mount up to criminal behavior.

Schiff and pelosi are terrified of forwarding Articles of Impeachment - they will will just keep up their inquiry to politically damage Trump as much as possible to 2020- but will never stop - as Schiff has stated - not even after Trump's eventual death..

President Trump is already calling for a trial. There are grumblings that a censure vote is the way out. What if they don't have the censure votes?

In the meantime, the Dims have exposed their WH spies.

This is still only the investigation into the inquiry , the idiots will try to keep up this till the election

President Trump is already calling for a trial. There are grumblings that a censure vote is the way out. What if they don't have the censure votes?

In the meantime, the Dims have exposed their WH spies. Originally Posted by gnadfly

Do you think Trump will ever honour his word? He no more wants a trial than he wants his lawyer at the bar. I do find it predictable that now that your Congress is in recess, that the Trump state medias is working overtime to smear and discredits his investigators. And, even more predictably, you lot are swallowing it like that odd loads in your mouth when your suck each other off.

Do you think Trump will ever honour his word? He no more wants a trial than he wants his lawyer at the bar. I do find it predictable that now that your Congress is in recess, that the Trump state medias is working overtime to smear and discredits his investigators. And, even more predictably, you lot are swallowing it like that odd loads in your mouth when your suck each other off. Originally Posted by HoeHummer

If it's such a matter of national importance and has to happen immediately, why did the House allow a recess? I mean my God the state of the nation depends on this, right?

Dims may try to drag this on for 2-3 months before they move it to the Senate. They may hope some court cases go their way and some bombshells may not actually fizzle. At that point the Dims will hope that some Senate re-election shenanigans happen, Rudy may get indicted, questionable IRS tax returns revealed and the planets align and the country won't be on burn out.

The Dims are in a corner they put themselves in.

Think the Dem House will try to call it a day by Censuring the President?



I believe the House has censured people in the past without getting the senate involved.

Do you think Trump will ever honour his word? He no more wants a trial than he wants his lawyer at the bar. I do find it predictable that now that your Congress is in recess, that the Trump state medias is working overtime to smear and discredits his investigators. And, even more predictably, you lot are swallowing it like that odd loads in your mouth when your suck each other off. Originally Posted by HoeHummer

I think he does want a trial. What is the worst that could happen? Mulvaney and Bolton both testify that YES Trump wanted an investigation into the Bidens possible corruption in the corrupt company Burisma if they wanted a meeting with Trump and wanted their aide released? Isn't that the testimony Dem's believe they already have? Will Bolton and Mulvaney saying the same thing convince the Republican Senators that it rises to the level of impeachment? I think not.



Republicans are telling you SO WHAT it isn't enough to impeach a President. That is the decision they have made and they are going to live with it.


I haven't seen a single person that doesn't think Trump will be acquitted. Dems are hoping beyond hope that this will hamper his chance for re-election while Republicans are betting this will help Trump and the current polling suggests that Trump is winning this battle especially in the battle ground states that polling shows disagree with impeachment.


What will also happen beyond people saying Trump did it! Will be Hunter Biden having to testify, Joe Biden may be called, Schiff may be called, the WB will definitely be called and all of these people could be in deep shit. What if an aide to Schiff is called and is asked under penalty of giving false testimony, the aide says YES, Adam Schiff not only knows the name of the WB but he meet with him and discussed strategy?



What if it can in fact be proven that Joe Biden "interfered" in his son being investigated by Ukrainian prosecutors?



I think we already know what's the worst that can be said about Trump because it's already been said and Republicans don't care. What we don't know but might know with a trial is a whole bunch of shit that could affect the Democrats.

Schiff is already out in front, trying to say being called to testify by the Senate won't matter because he's not a "fact witness". this means McConnell will call his punk ass. he knows he's got a lot to hide. he's already trying to get out of admitting his bullshittery.

he should have known the Senate can all their own witnesses including him and the whistleblower

yeah .. the Demontards didn't think this through did they?


BAHHAHAAAAAAAAAA Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

Schiff doesn't know what he's in for. You're right the Democrats didn't think this thing out.