Schiff: January 6 Probe Shows Trump Tried to ‘Overturn a Presidential Election’
Schiff attempts push another witch hunt against Trump
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Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) claims the select House committee "investigating" the January 6 Capitol riot found evidence revealing Donald Trump’s efforts to “overturn” the 2020 presidential election.
During an interview on MSNBC’s “Deadline” on Monday, Schiff said:
“I think what we see from these documents is a concerted effort along many different lines of effort to overturn the election.
"First, beginning by laying the predicate for a challenge to the legitimacy of the election, when the president falsely told the country that any vote counted after election day was going somehow be illegitimate.
"Then the frivolous litigation around the country, the president’s efforts weighing with state and local election officials trying to get them to overturn the results.
"Then on January 6, trying to get them to interfere with the counting of the electors.”
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He added:
“And so, it is a comprehensive picture that we are assembling of all of those multiple lines of effort," he added.
"You know, that slide deck, as well as other documents, shows just what extreme lengths people inside and outside the administration were willing to go to essentially overturn a presidential election and install Donald Trump as the president, having failed to win the election.”
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WATCH:
Here is 1/6 Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) putting together the threads of Trump's plot to overturn the election. pic.twitter.com/zuoDhQ7vmY
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 13, 2021
Earlier this year, January 6th committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said a subpoena Trump is not "off-limits."
"I would say this at this point Wolf, nobody is off-limits to a subpoena from this committee," the congressman told CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
"I assume that means the former president as well," Blitzer said.
"Nobody is off-limits," said Democrat Thompson.
CNN reported at the time:
Bannon was scheduled for a deposition in front of the committee on Thursday, and Bannon's lawyer wrote in a letter the day before to the panel saying that his client will not provide testimony or documents until the committee reaches an agreement with former President Donald Trump over executive privilege or a court weighs in on the matter.
"We reject his position entirely," Thompson continued in his statement.
