Adam Schiff Reveals Tuesday Trump Foreign Collusion Scheme

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President Donald Trump continues to seem obsessed with winning re-election to the point that, in his new memoir, Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton reveals that Trump apparently asked Chinese President Xi Jinping for help with his re-election campaign. Specifically, Trump apparently asked the Chinese president to increase his country’s purchase of agricultural goods from U.S. producers, which Trump indicated that he thought would boost his re-election chances. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is among those who’ve spoken out against the president’s corruption. On Twitter this Tuesday, Schiff pointed out that during Trump’s impeachment trial, he raised the possibility that Trump might collude with China to try and boost his re-election chances.

Alongside a video of his remarks, Schiff commented:

‘During the impeachment trial, I posed this hypothetical to Senators: If China began to interfere in our elections to help Trump, would he call them out? Or would he give China a better trade deal? As it turns out, the answer was just as damning as we thought.’

There’s an important note here — although Schiff argued during Trump’s impeachment trial that the president’s behavior suggested that he might be willing and ready to cooperate with China in an attempt to boost his re-election chances, the overwhelming majority of Republican Senators did nothing. Only one single Republican Senator — Utah’s Mitt Romney — voted to convict Trump of either of the charges against him. (Romney voted to convict Trump of abuse of power.)

In the wake of the latest revelations about Trump’s apparent attempt to solicit election help from China, Schiff acknowledged over the weekend that House Democrats were discussing options for the road ahead, including whether or not to have Bolton testify. Schiff explained:

‘We do need, I think, to expose the length and breadth of this president’s depravity and how much it is endangering the country. So those facts are going to need to come out and we are discussing with the Speaker and my fellow chairs just how to do that.’

Check out Twitter’s response to some of his latest commentary below:

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