Man, you know it’s bad when even the Washington Post has to admit Rep. Adam is full of Schiff for his statements on Ukraine. From the Hill:
The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column on Friday gave House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) four Pinocchios for claiming last month that his panel had “not spoken directly with the whistleblower” who raised concerns about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
The New York Times first reported on Wednesday that the whistleblower had consulted with Schiff’s committee before filing the complaint.
Schiff said in a Sept. 17 interview with the Daily Beast’s Sam Stein on MSNBC that “we have not spoken directly with the whistleblower.”
“Have you heard from the whistleblower? Do you want to hear from the whistleblower? What protections could you provide to the whistleblower?” Stein, an MSNBC contributor, asked on “Morning Joe.”
“We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to,” Schiff responded. “But I am sure the whistleblower has concerns that he has not been advised, as the law requires, by the inspector general or the director of national Intelligence just how he is supposed to communicate with Congress, and so the risk to the whistleblower is retaliation.”
But that’s a lie. And his attempt to save himself later when he was caught was also a lie. More from the Hill:
“Schiff on ‘Morning Joe’ clearly made a statement that was false,” the fact-checker said. “He now says he’s was answering the wrong question, but if that was the case, he should have quickly corrected the record. He compounded his falsehood by telling reporters a few days later that if not for the [inspector general’s] office, the committee would not have known about the complaint. That again suggested there had been no prior communication.”
“The explanation that Schiff was not sure it was the same whistleblower especially strains credulity,” the fact-checker added. “Schiff earns Four Pinocchios.”
This is why you just can’t trust the Democrats and what they say, because even when they’re caught lying, it’s rarely given the coverage in the media that they give to those by Republicans. Does this exonerate Trump? No. But it does mean that you gotta be careful about what you assume is true in the mainstream media…