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Adam Schiff Faces $16 Million Fine for Spreading Russia Collusion Hoax

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Now that Special Counsel John Durham’s report has been released, those who perpetuated the Russia collusion hoax are under renewed scrutiny – as they should be. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was one of the leading proponents of the false claim that former President Donald Trump collaborated with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Now, there is a move in Congress to punish him for the falsehoods he told shortly after the race.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has introduced a resolution to fine Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff $16 million for his claims that former President Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 election.

Luna says that amount is about half of the cost of the federal investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion, debunked by special counsel reports from Robert Mueller and John Durham.

“The GOP Conference agrees that Adam Schiff has betrayed the trust of the American people, purposely abused positions of extreme authority, lied continuously, and as such, must be held to account,” the lawmaker said in a statement. “Accordingly, the resolution requires Rep. Schiff to pay a $16 million dollar fine, half of the cost American taxpayers were forced to pay for the Russia hoax investigation.”

Mirroring Luna’s statement, the resolution accuses Schiff of betraying the American people’s trust, intentionally abusing his positions of authority, and continuously lying about Trump’s nonexistent relationship with the Kremlin. It also highlights Schiff’s promotion of the Steele dossier, support for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Trump aide Carter Page, and public accusations against Page as a Russian collaborator. The resolution censures Schiff and imposes the $16 million fine, calling on House leadership to support the motion.

Luna introduced another resolution last week to expel Schiff from Congress.

It is not difficult to see that Schiff does deserve to be held accountable. He engaged in a pattern of deceptive behavior and false claims regarding President Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 election. A fine and expulsion are clearly justified due to his continuous promotion of a false narrative without providing the promised evidence.

Schiff’s frequent appearances on major news outlets during the Trump-Russia investigation are well-documented. He consistently made his rounds in the media circuit claiming to possess definitive proof of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia, promising to unveil the evidence that would expose this alleged conspiracy.

However, despite his confident assertions, Schiff failed to produce any substantial evidence to support his claims. This continuous dissemination of baseless allegations without delivering on his promises calls into question Schiff’s integrity and credibility.

Schiff’s conduct went beyond merely expressing opinions or speculating about potential wrongdoing. Instead, he deliberately misled the public by presenting himself as possessing secret evidence that would implicate the President and his team. By doing so, he abused his position and the trust placed in him as the Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Schiff’s persistent claims without substantiation not only further eroded public trust but also undermined the credibility of Congress as an institution.

Members of Congress are expected to adhere to high ethical standards and engage in honest and transparent discourse. Schiff’s actions during the Trump-Russia investigation clearly fell short of these expectations. Despite knowing the lack of evidence to support his claims, he continued to perpetuate a false narrative, causing unnecessary division and fueling baseless speculation.

But we already know how this will turn out, don’t we? Members of the ruling class are rarely held accountable for their corruption, so it seems probable that this resolution will not stick and Schiff will live to lie another day.

Russia and the Media Team up to Target Trump for Russia Hoax, Part 2

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Last week, Special Counsel John Durham released his long-awaited report on the Russia Hoax. I’m not sure we learned anything new, but seeing it in writing from an impeccable source was worth the wait. We learned that President Trump had not colluded with Russia to get elected but that the Clinton campaign had worked hand in glove with the FBI, intelligence officials, and media figures to mainstream the fraudulent Steele Dossier into the national conversation. They then used the false story deliberately created by the US government as a pretense for a series of harassing investigations that had as their sole purpose to hamstring President Trump’s ability to carry out the agenda for which America elected him. In the process, two national newsrooms, those of the New York Times and Washington Post, shared a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on Trump’s collusion with Russia (see Walter Duranty Is Alive and Well and Working at the Washington Post and New York Times).

If you thought any lessons were learned about honesty and integrity through this humiliating self-beclowning, then you really don’t know who you are dealing with.

Saturday, the Russian Foreign Ministry posted an updated list of 963 US citizens who have been permanently banned from entering Russia. The list has existed for a while, but the Saturday list included 500 additions. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry:

Among them are not only “iconic” figures, including former US President Barack Obama, but also current heads of various levels of executive power, ex-officials like White House curator for combating “Russian disinformation” N. Yankovic, senators and congressmen elected for the first time in the November 2022 elections, experts and employees of “analytical” centers involved in the dissemination of Russophobic attitudes and fakes, as well as heads of military-industrial complex companies, supplying weapons to the regime in Kiev. The attached “list-500” also includes those in the government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called “storming of the Capitol”.

The list included senior Biden-appointed officials, Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, soused Nancy Pelosi. In addition, Jen Psaki and Hunter Biden made the list, as did several CNN employees; “comedians” Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers; New York Attorney General Letitia James; Special Counsel Jack Smith; Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger; Governors Christine Kotek (OR), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (AR), Maura Healy (MA), Kathleen Hobbs (AZ), and Joshua Shapiro (PA); and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Missing from the list were President Trump, his sons, any member of his former administration other than Pompeo, and Senator Rand Paul, who delayed a vote on Ukraine aid.

Former UN weapons inspector and twice-convicted child molester Scott Ritter was also not on the list, but that is a story for a different day.

Indeed, I wonder what possible motive Russia would have in selecting particular individuals for inclusion on the “banned” list. Could it be that they know that President Trump, at this moment, is the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination? Do they realize that Trump is favored to win the 2024 election if he faces Joe Biden? Is it possible that they know our political establishment and media are so besotted with the success of the lies they peddled the first time around that, despite having been exposed, they are willing to go back to that well?

On the whole, I think this was a masterful trolling operation by the Russians. Banning people involved in the January 6 persecutions is definitely a high point, though they lost the plot in missing Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Russia labeling all of Trump’s enemies as persona non grata and the media running with the story has effectively set the stage for Russia Hoax, Part 2.

Jonah Goldberg Is Big Mad at People Bringing up His Support of Corrupt James Comey

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Some supposed “limited government” conservatives have become so infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) that their seeming opposition to state malfeasance takes a backseat to their animosity for former President Donald Trump. Some high-profile right-leaning figures have allowed their obsession with the Orange Man What Is Bad™ to become so pronounced that they are willing to side with corrupt government officials as long as it means attacking the former occupant of the White House.

Let’s take Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, for example. He posted a tweet on Tuesday taking issue with the fact that some were posting a video clip from a 2017 interview in which he argued that former FBI Director James Comey was more trustworthy than Trump.

This comes just after Special Counsel John Durham released a report detailing the findings of his investigation into the origin of the Russia collusion probe. Durham’s investigation found that the FBI relied on unverified information coming from Trump’s political opponents to look into false allegations that he was colluding with the Kremlin to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

During the interview with ABC News, Goldberg said:

“The fact that the Trump White House couldn’t give anybody to come on here and talk about terrorism is a sign of the disarray that they’re in. Anyway, their actual attack mode, I think all it does is please the people who are already in Donald Trump’s column. And if it’s a contest between James Comey’s credibility and Donald Trump’s credibility, I think Comey’s brand wins that 10 out of 10 times.”

On Twitter, Goldberg wrote:

A whole bunch of tiresome pests are going nuts over a clip of me in — 2017! — saying I’ll take Comey’s word over Trump’s 10 time out of 10. I agree that Comey looks much worse now then back then. But I think I was  justified in saying it then, given what was known, and given that the issue was Trump’s credibility versus Comey’s.

And, frankly, Trump is still more dishonest than Comey — even if you consider Comey a deeply dishonest person, which I pretty much do.

He continued, attacking Trump’s character, arguing that he “invited virtually all of his legal, political and financial problems on himself.”

Regardless of what one thinks of Trump’s flawed character, the notion that Comey is somehow more trustworthy is laughable considering his conduct as FBI director in the leadup to the 2016 election. During this period, Comey, who is a well-known sufferer of TDS, used his position to pursue a politically-motivated attack against Trump.

It was revealed last year that he and his underlings at the FBI knew that the Russia hoax was a massive falsehood but still spun a deceptive narrative during testimony before a congressional committee. A March 8, 2017 memo showed talking points created for the former FBI director by former agent Lisa Page. A RealClearInvestigations report stated that Comey’s meeting with the committee was “riddled with half-truths, outright falsehoods, and critical omissions.”

For instance, the memo advised the FBI director to claim the allegations that Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign head, and Carter Page, another Trump adviser, were collaborating with the Kremlin came from a credible confidential Russian source. In reality, the FBI was already aware that the actual source was Russian national Igor Danchenko, who had merely engaged in unsubstantiated gossip about the two advisers.

In another instance, Comey admitted to sending FBI agents to trick Michael Flynn, Trump’s former National Security Adviser, into lying so they could trip him up. RedState’s Nick Arama reported at the time that on a recording, Comey said, “I sent them,” and described how he subverted the usual process to target Flynn. He was recorded saying that this subterfuge was “something I probably wouldn’t have done or gotten away with in a more organized administration.” In essence, Comey used the FBI to target Flynn and ruin his life because he had the temerity to align himself with Trump.

In one of his more notorious moments, the former FBI director publicly cleared Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of any wrongdoing in the email scandal shortly before the election in 2016. Despite the fact that many who committed similar offenses were punished, Comey saw fit to ensure Clinton would not be held accountable for storing classified information on a private server.

Yet, despite Comey presiding over one of the most torrid episodes of corruption in the Bureau’s history, folks like Goldberg think Trump is somehow worse. I’ve had my criticisms of the former president. But, as far as we know, he did not leverage the power of the state to attack political opponents. What the former FBI director and others in the federal government did was the type of wrongdoing that so-called conservatives should loathe far more than a crass politician. Unfortunately, TDS has caused many to lose sight of this reality.

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