In 2019, Schiff became chair of the Intelligence Committee when Democrats reclaimed the House majority. By the fall, Democrats drew articles of impeachment to indict Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress with claims the president illegally harnessed U.S. military aid to extract concessions from the corrupt foreign government in Ukraine.
Trump, the story went, withheld $400 million in military aid from Ukraine until President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to investigate his own country’s role in the Russia hoax which did irreparable harm to the United States. That investigation would inevitably center around Hunter Biden, son of now-President Joe Biden, who raked in tens of thousands of dollars in excess compensation for a seat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company despite no prior industry experience.
Schiff presided over the House impeachment hearings as if withholding hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid until its recipients act in American interests was even a bad thing, let alone worthy of impeachment. As chair, Schiff’s deposition hearings were held behind
closed doors while the committee selectively leaked snippets of testimony to amplify their own narratives to a complicit press. In fact, leaking on the Intelligence Committee became a
favorite practice of the congressman, whose habitual leaks made their way uncritically into the pages of The New York Times.
When he wasn’t leaking to the allied press machine, Schiff was making up his own evidence to promote the Democrats’ fabricated narratives. In September 2019, Schiff
created his own transcript of the phone call between Trump and Zelensky which was supposed to be the smoking gun that warranted impeachment. In his own rendition, Schiff framed Trump as someone demanding a favor the president never actually requested, but he offered the media a storyline the
press ran with, slicing and dicing Trump’s words to fit the pro-impeachment narrative.
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