Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Photo courtesy of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. November 26, 2019.
Kerry Picket reports at The Washington Examiner:
Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, knows who he wants to question in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial — Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
Hawley on Wednesday or Thursday plans to focus on the Democratic House impeachment manager from California and his staff concerning their contact with the Ukraine whistleblower, who remains unnamed. That individual’s complaint about Trump’s actions toward Ukraine to the Intelligence Committee inspector general triggered the impeachment trial.
“After listening to the Dems’ 20+ hours of argument and the rebuttal arguments from @realDonaldTrump, I’ve got lots of questions for the Dems. Like this one: Why did Schiff lie about his contact with the “whistleblower”? More to come!” Hawley tweeted.
Hawley, 40, followed with another tweet: “Two days of questions coming up. And I’ve got lots — about Burisma, Hunter Biden, and Adam Schiff and the backchannel contacts with the “whistleblower” that started all this.”
Schiff, 59, previously claimed he did not know details of the whistleblower complaint and that his staff did not have contact with the whistleblower either. But he later conceded this was not true.
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