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For John, BLUF:  I am surprised that the Democrats haven't reined in Representative Adam Schiff.  Or maybe they can,t.  Or don't wish to since they need an over the top attack dog.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Adam Schiff:  50,000 Americans Dead Because Trump Wasn’t Removed

Here is the sub-headline:

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed Friday evening that 50,000 Americans died because the Senate failed to remove President Donald Trump from office during the impeachment trial in February.

From Breitbart! by Reporter, Joel B Pollak, 26 2020.

Here is the lede plus two:

Schiff’s argument runs counter to those who have argued that the impeachment trial was a pointless distraction that prevented Congress from acting to help stop the pandemic.  A timeline of events reveals that President Trump took the first actions against the pandemic despite the trial, including forming the coronavirus task force, and banning travel with China.

Schiff told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes:

There is one thing that, really, I have to say haunts me from the trial and it was before that snippet you showed where we knew we had to answer the question to the senators, okay, essentially, house managers, you’ve proved him guilty [sic], does he really need to be removed after all? we have an election in nine months. how much damage could he really do? and we posed that question to the Senate and we answered it by saying that he could do an awful lot of damage but frankly, chris, I don’t think we had any idea how much damage he would go on to do in the months ahead.  There are 50,000 Americans now who are dead, in significant part because of his incompetence, because of his inability to think beyond himself and put the country first.  I don’t think we would have ever anticipated that his brand of narcissism and his brand of incompetence would be so fatal to the American people.

Has there ever been a more self centered, a more unreflective, Member of Congress than Representative Adam Schiff, including his fellow Californian, Richard M Nixon?.

If he had simply said "Yes, we were distracting the President at a critical time, although we didn't realize it, but his incompetence demanded his removal, as subsequent events have proven," he would have been in the area of Speaker Nancy the Ripper or Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer; wrong, but not wacko.  No, he had to jump the shark, which is somehow fitting.

Hat tip to my Wife for noticing this.

Regards  —  Cliff