Trump Busts Shifty Schiff For Secret Meeting With Key Russia Probe Witness In Aspen

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Adam “Shifty” Schiff was caught having a secret meeting in Aspen with a key witness in the never-ending Russia probe. President Donald Trump was on fire highlighting that Schiff has found zero evidence in the Russia collusion case, and now he is caught red-handed allegedly tampering with a key witness. Legal pundits are calling for Schiff to immediately recuse himself as Chairman of the House Intell Committee, and he is freaking out. You’ll love this.

President Donald Trump (left), Rep. Adam Schiff (right) (Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images, CNN/Screenshot)

Adam Schiff is one of the biggest liars in Congress. For years now he has said he has seen evidence that President Trump colluded with the Russians. Yet, after two long years of investigations by both Robert Mueller and the House Intel Committee, Shifty Schiff has never been able to bring even a hint of wrong-doing by our president.

Former Congressman Trey Gowdy also thinks he is full of crap. “I just wish Adam would be intimidated by the facts,” Gowdy told FNC’s Martha MacCallum. “The two years that I worked with him on the Russia probe, Adam was wrong about collusion. Remember, he said he had evidence that was more than circumstantial but not quite direct that the president colluded with Russia.

“He was wrong about Donald Trump Jr. and who he called before and after the meeting at Trump Tower. Adam has also leaked incorrect information to media outlets,” Gowdy said Wednesday.

Now, a bombshell report has just come to light proving Schiff, just last summer, had a secret meeting with Glenn Simpson, the CEO of Fusion GPS, and the key witness to Mueller’s witch hunt.

“The new House Intelligence Committee chairman, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), has proven to be his party’s most effective antagonist toward President Trump. And now, with the new powers of being chairman, he is drawing both new weapons and new scrutiny,” reported John Solomon via The Hill. 

“Sometimes such scrutiny inevitably turns to questions of hypocrisy. Which bring us to the issue of some photographs taken at the prestigious Aspen security conference last July,” said Solomon. “They show Schiff meeting at the event with Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson, one of the key and most controversial figures in the Russia collusion scandal. Both men insisted to me through spokesmen that they met only briefly last July.”

At the time of the encounter, Simpson was an important witness in the House Intelligence Committee probe that Schiff was the ranking member. Now, he is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and this meeting alone should be the tipping point for recusal on the Russia investigation. Others say Schiff is so tainted he needs to step down.

Here’s the best tidbit from the secret meeting: “When confronted with the Aspen conference photos of Schiff, in sport coat and open-neck dress shirt, and Simpson, wearing casual attire, representatives for both men tried to minimize their discussion, insisting nothing substantive about the Russia case was discussed,” Solomon writes.

And by the time of this meeting, they call “by-chance,” Schiff had already received evidence from a senior Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, that called into question Simpson’s testimony to lawmakers. 

Trump tweeted, “Now we find out that Adam Schiff was spending time together in Aspen with Glenn Simpson of GPS Fusion, who wrote the fake and discredited Dossier, even though Simpson was testifying before Schiff.”

Does anyone really think Schiff met with Simpson by chance? Simpson had no reason to be there. Yet, when Devin Nunes last year went to the White House very concerned about what he found out about the FISA warrants which were illegally represented by senior FBI and DOJ officials, Adam Schiff had a fit and made him go through an ethics hearing. Shouldn’t at the very least Schiff receive the same treatment?

“But Schiff created a far higher standard two years ago when he demanded that his Republican counterpart on the committee, then-Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), be investigated for having meetings with national security council officials at the Trump White House without telling the committee. Schiff’s attacks led Nunes to temporarily recuse himself from the Russia probe,” reported The Hill.

Nunes had to recuse himself from the Russia probe until the hearing found him not guilty of any wrong-doing. And President Trump isn’t going to let it go. “The mainstream media has refused to cover the fact that the head of the VERY important Senate Intelligence Committee, after two years of intensive study and access to Intelligence that only they could get, just stated that they have found NO COLLUSION between Trump & Russia,” Trump tweeted.

He added, “It is all a GIANT AND ILLEGAL HOAX, developed long before the election itself, but used as an excuse by the Democrats as to why Crooked Hillary Clinton lost the Election! Someday the Fake News Media will turn honest & report that Donald J. Trump was actually a GREAT Candidate!”

Adam “Shifty” Schiff is freaking out. He refused to answer questions on the secret meeting in person. Instead, he had his staffers cover for him. “The chairman did not have any pre-planned meeting with Glenn Simpson, and any conversation with him at the Aspen conference would have been brief and social in nature,” Schiff spokesman Patrick Boland said.

Reporter John Solomon, who has done yeoman’s work uncovering this scandal, said of Schiff’s response “Translation: This was just a Forrest Gump-like moment in which the Democrats’ chief defender of the dossier and the man whose firm produced it met serendipitously.”

That says it all. President Trump has rightly called this a witch hunt. Of all the indictments from the Special Counsel the Democrats love to bring up, exactly zero have to do with Russia collusion or Trump. Schiff should now recuse himself and be brought up on ethics charges. The Democrats would do no less. And in the end, the smoke and mirrors of this witch hunt will go down in history as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice ever seen in the history of the United States.

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Rebecca Diserio is a conservative writer and speaker who has been featured in numerous high profile publications. She's a graduate of St. Joseph High School in Lakewood, CA and worked as a Critical Care Registered Nurse at USC Medical Center. A former Tea Party spokesman, she helped manage Star Parker’s campaign for US Congress and hosted a popular conservative radio show where she interviewed Dr. Alveda King, Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, and Michelle Malkin. A police widow, she resides in Southern California.