Republican Matt Gaetz has dug up audio from 2017 where two Russian radio hosts prank called Adam Schiff, pretending to be the former speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, and offered him dirt on Trump, which he readily said he’d like to get this grimy hands on:
Here’s more from Fox news:
Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz has dug up a nearly two-year-old prank call in which House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff told two Russian radio hosts posing as a Ukrainian politician that he would be willing to accept damaging anti-Trump information.
Gaetz on Sunday tweeted an edited clip from the eight-minute-long phone call. It comes as Republicans are pushing back at the House Democratic impeachment inquiry over allegations President Trump pressured the Ukrainian president into investigating the family of 2020 rival Joe Biden.
In the clip, Schiff, D-Calif., tells the Russian shock-jocks, who were posing as Andriy Parubiy, the former speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, that he would be willing to accept dirt on Trump from the Ukrainian.
“So, you have recordings of both [Russian journalist Ksenia] Sobchak and [Russian model and singer Olga] Buzova where they’re discussing the compromising material on Mr. Trump?” Schiff asked the callers posing as Parubiy.
“Absolutely,” one of the pranksters responded.
“Well obviously we would welcome a chance to get copies of those recordings,” Schiff said later in the call after he and the fake “Parubiy” go on to discuss more details of the bogus allegations.
I know this is just a prank call, but wow, it really does expose the despicable double standard of Adam Schiff.
He’s more than willing to accept dirt on Trump. But when Trump suggests the Ukraine should investigate Biden for legitimate admissions of what sounds like corruption to most ears, he’s full on IMPEACHMENT.
What a schmuck!