House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff says a potential acquittal of President Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial would not be a failure for House Democrats
A potential acquittal of President Donald Trump in the Senate’s impeachment trial would not be a failure for House Democrats, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday morning.
“No, it isn’t a failure,” the California Democrat told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week.“ “At least it’s not a failure in the sense of our constitutional duty in the House.”In March, Schiff warned, “The only thing worse than putting the country through the trauma of impeachment is putting the country through the trauma of a failed impeachment.” But despite initially resisting impeachment efforts, Schiff has since changed his tune.
“It was one thing when the president invited foreign interference as a candidate, when he couldn’t use the power of his office to make it so,” he explained. “It was another when, as president of the United States, he withheld hundreds of millions of dollars to coerce an ally, betray our national security and try to cheat in the next election. That was not something we could turn away from.”
But Schiff said the final straw, in his eyes, was that just one day after former FBI director Robert Mueller testified before Congress in July, Trump made a call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, wherein he sought the foreign leader’s help to take down his political rival, Joe Biden. “That told me, this president believes he is above the law and accountable to no one, and that this road was necessary. And I think it very much is,” Schiff said.
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