I’m guessing it would take quite a lot to cross California Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff’s ethical line because in Donald Trump’s first term and in the subsequent corrupt J6 Committee, the long-necked Democrat proved that he was willing to do just about anything to “get Trump.” As fierce and nasty a partisan as you could find in The Swamp, Schiff was a leader of both impeachment trials against the 45th president—now the 47th president—and for years promised evidence of Russia collusion that he never produced.
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We’re still waiting, Adam.
He is so dishonest that the House censured him in 2023, making him only the 25th House lawmaker to face the punishment in U.S. history.
But evidently, Adam has found someone even more corrupt than himself: former (oh, I type that with such glee!) President Joe Biden, who has thrown out a slew of pardons in his waning days in office. Even Schiff was able to see that the pardons were not in the best interests of the country:
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called his preemptive pardon from former President Biden, announced Monday for all past members of the now-defunct House. Jan. 6 committee in the final moments of his presidency, “unnecessary” and “unwise.”
“I continue to believe that the grant of pardons to a committee that undertook such important work to uphold the law was unnecessary, and because of the precedent it establishes, unwise,” Schiff said in a statement.
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He tries to claim that Biden’s J6 Committee pardons were “unnecessary” and “unwise” because he and fellow committee members, former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Liz Cheney (R-WY) did such “important work.” But if it was so important, why did Trump become president on Monday despite your stunning conclusions, and why does Biden feel the need to give you a preemptive pardon? A classic Shakespeare quote comes to mind, Adam: You “doth protest too much, methinks.”
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He’s still the man some call “Shifty Schiff,” though, so of course he tried to blame the corrupt and unethical move on Trump and the GOP:
“But I certainly understand why President Biden believed he needed to take this step in light of the persistent and baseless threats issued by Donald Trump and individuals who are now some of his law enforcement nominees.”
Oh please. Biden owns his endemic corruption, and Trump has nothing to do with the fact that at his core, Joe is craven, opportunistic and cutthroat. That such a mediocre man made it to such heights has always been incomprehensible to me, but one of the ways he did it is by having no ethical boundaries, and he is ruthless.
Luckily, he met his match in a much more accomplished person, Donald Trump, who has now wiped the floor with the divisive, incomprehensible former commander-in-chief and sent him scurrying back to Delaware.
It’s nice to see him go—he was helicoptered off the White House lawn in a scene that reminded me of Nixon’s exit in 1972—but he leaves a massive pile of wreckage in his wake. He has made a mockery of the rule of law in this country with his weaponization of the Department of Justice, along with his accomplice, soon-to-be former Attorney General Merrick Garland, and his deluge of corrupt pardons defines who the man is and always was.
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Let’s hope Trump and Co. can clean it up.
When one of the most ethically challenged people ever to cast a cloud over Congress says you’ve crossed a line, you’ve really, really crossed a line.
Biden’s behavior is disgusting, and the Corrupt Corporate Media and the Democrats own it because he’s who they sold to America for these past four years. I hope they pay for it for decades to come.