Rep. Schiff: Flynn Case ‘Is the President’s Effort to Distract’ By Susan Jones for CNS News
GNN Note – Saying the Gen. Flynn case is a “distraction” is equal to you punching me in the face and someone saying that I abused you!
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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday picked up the line tossed out by former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday — that recent developments in the Michael Flynn case are mere distractions.
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Schiff, an early and dedicated supporter of the Trump impeachment, told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday, “This is the president’s effort to distract from the fact that, under his watch, we have now lost 80,000 American lives and our economy is in the worst shape it’s been since the Great Depression.”
Mitchell’s question is noteworthy as well for its partisan flavor. Here’s how she framed the argument and how Schiff responded:
At the end of the interview, Mitchell asked Schiff:
I also want to ask you about President Obama and now, in a separate instance, maybe a separate instance, the acting DNI, Ric Grenell, going after Democrats going, after the Obama administration, resurrecting the whole unmasking issue, the president accusing former President Obama of the greatest crime ever. What’s going on here? There’s also a “Wall Street Journal” editorial against you as well, against the Adam Schiff transcripts, as they put it.
Schiff responded:
Well, what’s going on is, this is the president’s effort to distract from the fact that, under his watch, we have now lost 80,000 American lives and our economy is in the worst shape it’s been since the Great Depression.
This is what this is about. They want to distract attention. They want to create some kind of a counter-narrative that, no, it was actually Obama committing crimes, not Donald Trump. It was all the Obama administration figures. It was Adam Schiff.
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