Article by Victoria Taft in "PJMedia":
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s
impeachment report on what he calls President Trump’s “scheme” with
“agents” to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden in 2020 was exactly
what you’d expect if you watched the hearings on TV. But then came the
footnotes.
Way
back in the footnotes were records of phone calls, helpfully produced
and highlighted, between Trump's private attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and
Congressman Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intel
Committee, Schiff’s colleague. You read that right. Schiff appears to
have spied on Devin Nunes.
Schiff got the phone records of Giuliani’s calls with the White House.
And
then there were the call records of Lev Parnas, a Giuliani associate,
who’s fighting campaign finance charges, and a number of people,
including former Hill reporter John Solomon; attorneys Victoria
Toensing and Jay Sekulow, both of whom have represented President
Trump; along with Nunes.
Schiff
didn’t divulge phone calls between Parnas and any other reporters,
congressional representatives, or attorneys but claims the dates on
which the phone calls happened reveal multiple conversations in advance
of Trump’s sacking his Ukrainian Ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, which,
by the way, isn’t against the law.
Schiff
claims the people and phone calls showed that there was an orchestrated
effort to investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s dealings in advance of the
2020 election.
Reporter
John Solomon was also highlighted for talking to Parnas, an apparent
source, with the fruits of the conversations perhaps being the following
stories:
April 1: Solomon publishes op-ed titled "Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian Nightmare"
April 1 to 7: Parnas on the phone with Giuliani about 16 times and with Solomon about 10 times.
April 7: Follow-up opinion piece by Solomon smearing Yovanovitch
April 1 to 7: Parnas on the phone with Giuliani about 16 times and with Solomon about 10 times.
April 7: Follow-up opinion piece by Solomon smearing Yovanovitch
Schiff has repeatedly gone after Solomon, accusing him of peddling “conspiracy theories.” The political pressure on The Hill
by Schiff and his acolytes prompted Solomon to leave. Editor in Chief
Bob Cusack said on Twitter that he would “meticulously” go over all of
Solomon’s Ukraine opinion columns.
