{"id":20054,"date":"2023-05-18T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T00:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2023-05-18T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T00:09:03","slug":"adam-schiff-who-repeatedly-claimed-evidence-of-russian-collusion-blasts-durham-report-as-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=20054","title":{"rendered":"Adam Schiff, who repeatedly claimed evidence of Russian collusion, blasts Durham report as &#8216;flawed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Rep. Adam Schiff, formerly the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said special counsel John Durham&#8217;s report on the origins of the Russia probe revealed the probe was &#8220;flawed&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;This is an investigation that began in a flawed manner, was conducted in a flawed manner, and its conclusion is a flawed conclusion,&#8221; Schiff told MSNBC host Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff characterized Durham&#8217;s investigation as one that began because then-President Donald Trump was &#8220;fooling&#8221; his attorney general, Bill Barr, into &#8220;investigating investigators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>JEAN PIERRE FINISHES THE BRIEFING AFTER BEING PRESSED ON THE DURHAM REPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Adam Schiff launches his US Senate campaign in Burbank, California.<\/span> <span>(Mario Tama\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Democrat also said Durham&#8217;s findings add &#8220;very little&#8221; to a two-year report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz and do not demonstrate a &#8220;deep state conspiracy&#8221; as alleged by Trump and members of the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>He called the Durham investigation &#8220;wasted effort&#8221; and &#8220;four years of undermining the department.&#8221; [of justice] and a political prosecution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff, who was kicked off the committee by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, has been replaced there by Rep. James Himes, D-Conn.  \u2013 and has also announced a bid to replace incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff has repeatedly said in the past that there is &#8220;clear evidence on the issue of collusion&#8221; between the Kremlin and Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to go into details, but I will say that there is evidence that is not circumstantial. But as I have said all along, there is a lot of evidence of collusion,&#8221; he told &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; in 2017. .<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM SCHIFF SUES MSNBC HOST TO RAISE FUNDS FOR IMPUTATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/640\/320\/bud-light-reps.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Bud Light replays\" title=\"\"> <\/p>\n<p><span>Reps. Ted Lieu, Mark Takano, Judy Chu and Adam Schiff appear to enjoy bottles of Bud Light after Dylan Mulvaney controversy<\/span> <span>(Rep. Ted Lieu\/Twitter)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Story,&#8221; William McGurn, a Wall Street Journal editorial board member who had published an editorial calling the Durham investigation a &#8220;damning account of the corruption of the FBI and its accomplices,&#8221; was told he asked about the difference of opinion with Schiff.  .<\/p>\n<p>Anchor Trace Gallagher noted that the editorial board also claimed the FBI knew the discredited &#8220;dossier&#8221; compiled by ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele &#8220;came from Clinton and was fake to begin with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McGurn said it&#8217;s not surprising that Democrats like Schiff, as well as those interviewed on Capitol Hill by Fox News Digital on Tuesday, are dismissive of Durham&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Russia collusion story was America&#8217;s gaslighting. It was outrageous, the falsehoods, and it involved the highest levels of law enforcement and intelligence on this side of the &#8221; McGurn said.<\/p>\n<p>He said Barr apparently ignored his own personal differences with Trump to state clearly on Tuesday that the former president has been vindicated and that the Russia investigation was unsavory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only Adam Schiff there in those clips was talking about collusion. I mean, Durham said the FBI opened the investigation without any evidence. He also found bias in the FBI and found double standards. [in] how they treated the Hillary Clinton campaign,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the problem is that so many people in Washington were involved in this deception that they don&#8217;t want the same. Their strategy now is to pretend it didn&#8217;t happen and not discuss it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the Fox News Digital montage, Democratic representatives Daniel Goldman of New York, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Jamie Raskin of Maryland were interviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman, who previously served as a Democratic impeachment lawyer against Trump, said &#8220;it&#8217;s very disappointing to see a once venerable prosecutor clearly infected by political bias,&#8221; apparently referring to Durham.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Raskin, a member of the House Jan. 6 Committee, called the investigation &#8220;bare self-justification&#8221; of millions in taxpayer funds spent on &#8220;a wild goose chase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. <\/p>\n<p>He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant. <\/p>\n<p>Charles covers media, politics and breaking news, and has covered the annual CPAC conference for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Charles is a native of Pennsylvania and graduated from Temple University with a BA in Broadcast Journalism.  Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/adam-schiff-repeatedly-claimed-evidence-russian-collusion-denounces-durham-report-flawed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Adam Schiff, formerly the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said special counsel John Durham&#8217;s report on the origins of the Russia probe revealed the probe was &#8220;flawed&#8221; . &#8220;This is an investigation that began in a flawed manner, was conducted in a flawed manner, and its conclusion is a flawed conclusion,&#8221; Schiff told MSNBC host Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell on Tuesday. Schiff characterized Durham&#8217;s investigation as one that began because then-President Donald Trump was &#8220;fooling&#8221; his attorney general, Bill Barr, into &#8220;investigating investigators.&#8221; JEAN PIERRE FINISHES THE BRIEFING AFTER BEING PRESSED ON THE DURHAM REPORT Adam Schiff launches his&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20056,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions\/20056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}