Schiff responds to censure (6 minutes 17 seconds)
Last Friday twice indicted, twice impeached and loser in a civil harassment lawsuit, Donald Trump took to his “truth social” website following a vote in which Congress member Adam Schiff withstood a censure motion thanks to a few Republicans who voted against the measure because it was simply too stinky.
According to The Hill website, Trump sent out these instructions:
Trump said in a Truth Social post Friday that any Republican who opposed the censure resolution should face a primary challenge for the GOP nomination in their next election.
“Any Republican voting against his CENSURE, or worse, should immediately be primaried. There are plenty of great candidates out there,” he said.
Well, goodness gracious, whatever would cause such an outburst by the twice indicted, twice impeached candidate? It seems that Representative Schiff is seen by Mr. Trump as one of the reasons behind Trump’s troubles. Yep, Schiff caused it and there must be retaliation. And in his true cowardly fashion, Donald Trump called on Republicans in congress to do his dirty work for him, threatening them if they refuse.
And in true cowardly fashion, Iowa’s Republican responded by bowing down to Trump’s threat. All four – Feenstra, Nunn, Hinson and Miller-Meeks all following orders like good Germans.
What’s that you say? They didn’t knuckle under to Trump. So you are telling me that they purposely voted to censure a fellow member for leading one of the very basic responsibilities of congress – oversight of the executive branch. And Schiff did an exemplary job of leading that oversight effort.
Just to give this censure some context here is a short list of some of the more recent censures:
| 1979 | Charles Diggs | Democratic | Michigan | 414–0 | Payroll fraud and mail fraud. |
| 1979 | Daniel Flood | Democratic | Pennsylvania | Bribery | |
| 1980 | Charles H. Wilson | Democratic | California | voice vote | Improper use of campaign funds. |
| 1983 | Daniel B. Crane | Republican | Illinois | 420–3 | Engaging in sexual conduct with a House page. |
| Gerry Studds | Democratic | Massachusetts | 421–3 | ||
| 2010 | Charles B. Rangel | Democratic | New York | 333–79 | Improper solicitation of funds, making inaccurate financial disclosure statements, and failure to pay taxes. |
| 2021 | Paul Gosar | Republican | Arizona | 223–207 (with 1 “present” vote) | Posted an anime video on social media depicting himself committing violence against Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden.[5][6] |
Now the claim against Schiff is:
| Making allegations regarding Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the first impeachment of Donald Trump.[7][8] |
However all the allegations that Schiff AND his colleagues mad against the twice impeached president were true. They were verified in the Mueller report that was stopped from being fully disseminated, thus covering up Trump’s crimes.
It has to be embarrassing to vote to censure a member for doing his job well. That is certainly going to boomerang making those who voted for Schiff’s censure look much worse than Mr. Schiff. Plus it makes you all look like members of a conspiracy. Especially when a current member of your own party still sits uncensured in congress as he awaits trial for various illegal action concerning his campaign.
Stinks more than a big old pile of hog manure on a hot summer Iowa day.
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