When collusion isn’t a crime what to do, what to do…

…or should Schiff resign?

Veritas Omnia Vincit has been watching the post-Mueller investigation blow back where Democrats, who for over two years have been so invested in the witch hunt, can’t accept the fact that it’s over and nothing was found. Case in point is Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) who has been clamoring his belief that President Trump and his administration colluded with foreign powers, regardless of what the summary of Mueller’s investigation revealed.

“We will continue to investigate the counterintelligence issues. That is, is the president or people around him compromised in any way by a hostile foreign power? It doesn’t appear that was any part of Mueller’s report,” Schiff opined.

In the days since, there has been a push by GOP members to get Schiff to step down from his position as head of the House Intelligence Committee. This has had predicable results.

VoV sends..

“My colleagues might think it’s OK that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president as part of what’s described as the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign,” he said. “My colleagues might think it’s OK that when that was offered to the son of the president, who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the son did not call the FBI, he did not adamantly refuse that foreign help — no, instead that son said he would ‘love’ the help with the Russians. You might think it was ok that he took that meeting. You might think it’s ok that Paul Manafort, the campaign chair, someone with great experience running campaigns, also took that meeting. You might think it’s ok that the president’s son-in-law also took that meeting. You might think it’s ok that they concealed it from the public. You might think it’s ok that their only disappointment after that meeting was that the dirt they received on Hillary Clinton wasn’t better. You might think it’s OK. I don’t.” – Adam Schiff March 28, 2019

Schiff has been saying for the duration of the investigation he had seen the evidence of collusion. That’s great except there is no federal crime that is identified as collusion. There are conspiracy laws, there are federal election laws, there are not collusion laws. Collusion with a foreign entity might involve those other actual offenses against the law and that was what the investigation sought to discover.

Any good prosecutor or defense attorney will tell you that it’s not ever about what you think you know, it’s about what you know you can prove. It’s time for Representative Schiff to put up or shut up. His comments above are nothing more than his indications of actions he doesn’t much care for by the current administration and once again nothing in what he doesn’t like in the comment is a criminal act.

As an American citizen there were a great many things I didn’t like about the previous administration’s actions. I wasn’t fond of the guns for drug runners program, I wasn’t fond of increasing the number of nations we were bombing without any declaration of war or expansion by Congress of the AUMF agreement from the Bush administration. I wasn’t fond of being penalized for being healthy by being forced to buy a private company’s health insurance product. None of those things however were criminal in nature regardless of how I think about them.

Schiff and others would like to rewrite the Mueller report and make those things that might have been distasteful or outside the normal political arena and suddenly make them criminal to fulfill their fantasy of impeaching Trump. That’s a dangerous path to head down for any political party and shows me once again just how short sighted many of the current Democrats in supposed positions of leadership are on a regular basis. Just as the Republicans failed to make any significant case over Benghazi the Democrats are now failing to make a significant case over collusion. Benghazi was not a winning platform element for Republicans, collusion will not be a winning element for Democrats either. It’s always interesting that the party infrastructure often fails to recognize those moments when they willingly put on an Albatross necklace and step out into public.

High crimes are not apparent in the summation of the Mueller report, what will come of looking at the full report will undoubtedly be numerous moments of innuendo and backroom political machinations. None of which is now, nor has ever been actually criminal in nature regardless of how distasteful it appears to the public. They are continuing to press an issue forward that they believe wins them points based on liberal polling data. The same data they used to laugh at Trump’s feeble campaign for president.

Consequently, what they all fail to realize is that no matter what happens to Trump, Hillary Clinton will never be president of the United States. Never, not ever, not once, not twice, not ever. The Democrats currently running don’t even want her shadow over their campaigns for fear of the taint associated with her and her husband.

As I’ve said innumerable times on this very website, I’m not a big Trump fan. However I’m less of a fan of any politicians who will try and bend the law into a pretzel to achieve a singular outcome without regard for the damage they do to the rest of the nation in the process. In this regard I think Representative Schiff is overstepping his authority and may yet regret it in 2020.

I don’t know if Schiff should resign or not over his comments, in his district I suspect if he’s not elected some other asshole just like him will be elected. I welcome your thoughts on this as well.

If nothing else the Trump years have been wildly entertaining and interesting for those of us who are political junkies.

VoV

Thanks V. It ain’t over ’till the fat lady sings.

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