“You might think it’s okay.”
That was the indictment with which Adam Schiff charged the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee in response to attacking him personally for wanting to know the truth about the Trump campaign’s collusion with the Russians in 2016.
He repeated it over and again: “You might think it’s okay.”
In between Schiff painstakingly named every single action by Trump, his children, son-in-law, and campaign staff in which they showed they were willing to accept anything the Russians had on Hillary Clinton.
He underscored the fact that neither Trump nor his campaign notifed the FBI about what Russia was doing as they were supposed to do.
Just the opposite. They were so eager to cooperate with the Russians that, as Schiff said, their only disappointment was that the dirt the Russians had “wasn’t better.”
But it was the way he ended his historic remarks that silenced the room. Explaining why what Trump and his campaign did was not okay with him, Schiff said:
“It was immoral, unethical, and unpatriotic, and, yes, I think it was corrupt, and evidence of collusion…and I don’t think that conduct, criminal or not, is okay, and the day we do think it’s okay is the day we will look back and say America lost its way.”
That five minute speech was a masterful, thoughtful, and, above all, factual indictment of Republicans on the committee and all Republicans everywhere.
More than that, yesterday was the Republican’s last hoorah in using the Barr summary to their advantage.
It’s only a matter of time before the Mueller Report gets to speak for itself, and that will be the day of reckoning for Donald Trump and all Republicans.
“You might think it’s okay” is going to be a reverberating indictment of all things Trump and all things Republican when the truth comes out.
It’s so obvious you wonder why they cannot see it coming.
As James Comey suggested in his interview with Lester Holt the other night, insert Iran’s name in place of Russia’s and Obama’s name in place of Trump’s and repeat the scenario that faced the FBI when it had to decide whether or not to investigate the Trump campaign and the Justice Department chose to appoint the Special Counsel.
Republicans would have stormed the Justice Department (and the White House) had these things not been done had it been about the Obama campaign, yet here they are shamelessly defending Donald Trump.
Adam Schiff may be right that we have not yet reached the day when America has lost its way, but Republicans reached it a very long time ago.
Their only concern is winning. Patriotism, morality, ethics, personal integrity all be damned.
I don’t know how anyone can dare call themselves a Republican and at the same time say they believe in what is right, believe in telling the truth, believe in America.
You cannot have it both ways.
You just can’t, and no amount of political spin will ever change that fact.
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