At a hearing looking into the phone call that President Donald Trump had with the Ukrainian president, Rep. Adam Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, completely fabricated what was said on the call.
Today, George Stephanopoulos called Schiff out on ‘This Week’ for making up quotes about the call. But instead of apologizing for doing something completely improper, Schiff used the television appearance on ABC as another opportunity to spread more lies.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos confronts Adam Schiff for fabricating quotes from President Trump’s Ukraine phone callpic.twitter.com/xUNP7NfPKV
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 29, 2019
Trump, for example, didn’t ask the Ukrainian president “seven times” for anything.
Ryan Saavedra of The Daily Wire called Schiff out on his untruths.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA): Trump tried “to try to coerce that leader to manufacture dirt on his opponent and interfere in our election” which happened “at a time when the president is withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine”
Those are all lies
THREAD pic.twitter.com/sqmOg5iPJI
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 29, 2019
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said: “Nobody pushed me.”https://t.co/pkmo3Zqyf9
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko has said: "I know what they spoke about, and I don’t think there was any coercion."https://t.co/uncbe4JTUP
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 29, 2019
Trump *never* asked for Ukraine to interfere in US elections and *never* asked for anyone to "manufacture" dirt on Biden
This is literally all Trump said about Biden during their conversation pic.twitter.com/3VkyHrC0tN
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 29, 2019
How ridiculous that is what Democrats want to impeach Trump over.
Regarding Schiff's claim that this all happened “at a time when the president is withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine”
Ukraine had no idea that aid was being delayed until over a month after the callhttps://t.co/WxEVqVyHBR
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 29, 2019
So therefore it couldn’t have acted as pressure on Ukraine or as a quid pro quo. And it’s particularly ironic that Schiff tries to push that point when that’s exactly what Joe Biden did on video by his own admission, withhold aid in order to get Ukraine to do what he wanted.
Stephanopoulos makes a great point, if the phone call is as damning as Schiff claims, why would he need to make things up?
There’s another problem with what Schiff said. Schiff says in the first video above that when he found out about the whistleblower complaint being withheld from Congress, he went public and scheduled a meeting with the Director of National Intelligence to force the complaint to be released.
But we already know that he was aware of the complaint since at least August 12 and may have had it since then. Here’s part of the letter showing he was apprised and there was an attachment (the complaint?).
The whistleblower's letter to Schiff and Burr was dated Aug 12, 2019 pic.twitter.com/1NDQsy86oe
— AthenaJustice (@AthenaJustice6) September 27, 2019
🚨 🚨IMPT question – when did Adam Schiff have access to the complaint or any related information? The letter to Schiff and Burr was dated August 12th. Did Schiff have ANY access earlier than Committee & if yes, why did he not immediately share this with his Committee? 🚨🚨
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) September 27, 2019
So why did he sit on it since then and then try to claim now that as soon as he found out he went public?
This whole spiel he just gave Stephanopoulos was untrue.
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