As could be expected, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was an avid supporter of the recent push to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who could soon be switching Congressional chambers if he is successful in his ongoing run for Senate in his home state.
During recent debate in Congress, Greene misrepresented the basic facts of the Russia scandal, which as could also be expected, had provided the general foundation for Republicans’ vitriol towards the California Dem. “[Schiff] falsely claimed that Russians offered help, that the campaign accepted help, that the Russians gave help, and that the President made full use of that help when referring to allegations between President Trump and Russia during the 2016 election,” Greene alleged on the floor. Um… we’ve all read the news reports, Marjorie. Would it not be extremely safe to say that Russian interests did, in fact, offer help to the Trump campaign, even if that offer was somewhat implicit in the release of materials from hacked email accounts? And what about Trump’s infamously open attitude towards what the Russians were doing?
You can’t just wave your arms enough to make those comments from Donald about Russia finding the supposedly missing emails not actually exist. Greene was immediately followed in the debate on the floor by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who though he was pushed out of the House Intelligence Committee has retained a prominent place in Congress, including as a subcommittee ranking member at the House Judiciary panel, which Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) leads. Swalwell pointed out that Schiff was actually consistently correct, and Republicans’ blind insistence on some imaginary conspiracy against Trump would be their legacy in history.
“Mr. Speaker, this is not a House floor proceeding,” Swalwell told Congress. “This is a partners meeting of Insurrection, LLC. I ask them to tell me where Adam was wrong. He said at the first impeachment: Can we be confident that Donald Trump will not continue to try to cheat this 2020 election? The answer is: No, we can’t… I ask my colleagues: Are you as indecent as Donald Trump? Will you be remembered as footnotes and foot soldiers in history’s books that chronicle Donald Trump’s corruption, or will you be as decent as Adam Schiff?”
