USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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Facing massive upcoming election losses,
Democrats led by political frauds Schiff, Hillary, et al
try to launch yet more in their newest FUD campaign of Lies...


https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/15/during-january-6-hearing-schiff-doctored-text-messages-between-mark-meadows-and-rep-jim-jordan/
https://thefederalist.com/2017/12/08/18-questions-cnn-needs-to-answer-after-getting-busted-for-fake-news/
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1177211338998915072
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1177211952344510465
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/13/schiff-lies-yet-again-claims-to-not-know-who-the-whistleblower-is/
https://everylegalvote.com/assets/pdfs/January_6_2021_Will_Pence_s_Biggest_Day_in_Congress.pdf



During January 6 Hearing, Schiff Doctored Text Messages Between Mark
Meadows And Rep. Jim Jordan

Oops, he did it again. After leaking fake Donald Trump, Jr. emails,
fabricating the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former
President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s president, and lying about his
interactions with the so-called whistleblower behind House Democrats’
first impeachment of Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is now running
the same con against a fellow lawmaker. During a hearing Monday night
on the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Adam Schiff claimed
to have proof that a member of Congress texted former White House
chief of staff Mark Meadows to instruct former Vice President Mike
Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Not only did Schiff misrepresent the substance of the text message and
its source, he even doctored original text messages, which were
obtained and reviewed by The Federalist in their entirety.

“I want to display just a few of the message[s] he received from
people in Congress,” Schiff said, referring to Meadows. “The committee
is not naming these lawmakers at this time as our investigation is
ongoing. If we could cue the first graphic.”

The following graphic, purportedly of the text message between a
member of Congress and Meadows, then appeared on screen at Schiff’s
direction:

“This one reads, ‘On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as
President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he
believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all,’” Schiff
continued. “You can see why this is so critical to ask Mr. Meadows
about. About a lawmaker suggesting that the former vice president
simply throw out votes that he unilaterally deems unconstitutional in
order to overturn a presidential election and subvert the will of the
American people.”

Not only did Schiff lie about the substance of the text message and
its source, he even doctored the message and graphic that he displayed
on screen during his statement. The full text message, which was
forwarded to Meadows from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on the evening of
Monday, Jan. 5, was significantly longer than what Schiff read and put
on screen, but Schiff erased significant portions of the text and
added punctuation where there was none to give the impression that
Jordan himself was tersely directing Meadows to give orders to Pence
on how to handle the electoral vote certification.

The original text was written by Washington attorney and former
Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz and included an
attachment of a four-page draft Word document drafted by Schmitz that
detailed Schmitz’s legal reasoning for suggesting that Pence had the
constitutional authority to object to the certification of electoral
votes submitted by a handful of states. The piece that Schmitz had
sent to Jordan was published at the website everylegal.vote the next
day and even included the same “DISCUSSION DRAFT” heading and
timestamp on the document that Schmitz sent to Jordan.

“Good luck tomorrow!” Schmitz texted Jordan on the evening of Jan. 5,
including the Word document as an attachment. Schmitz then texted to
Jordan a three-paragraph summary of his Word document, which Schiff
sliced and diced and then attributed to Jordan:

“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the
Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are
unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with
guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial
precedence,” Schmitz texted. In his graphic, Schiff erased the final
clause and the em dash preceding it and added a period to the first
clause without disclosing that he or his staff had chopped up the text
and created a fake graphic misrepresenting the actual contents of the
text message.

Schmitz continued: “‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in
Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’ The
court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ‘That an
unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no
longer open to discussion.’ 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal
dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916).”

“Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector,
like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all,”
Schmitz wrote.

In his statement and on-screen graphic, Schiff erased the final two
paragraphs and the final clause of the first paragraph of the text
message before inserting punctuation that was never there, all without
disclosing what he was doing. The graphic displayed by Schiff, which
was doctored to look like an exact screenshot, was similarly doctored,
as it contained content that was never in the original message and
eliminated content that was.

“Is anyone surprised that Adam Schiff is again rifling through private
text messages and cherry-picking information to fit his partisan
narrative and sow misinformation?” asked Jordan spokesman Russell Dye.

According to a source familiar with the matter, Schiff never
approached Jordan to discuss the text messages prior to chopping them
up and misrepresenting them during Monday night’s hearing. Had he done
so or bothered asking Jordan about the text message, Schiff would have
known that Jordan was merely relaying to Meadows, without comment, an
attorney’s summary of that attorney’s own legal argument as to what
Pence should or shouldn’t do.

Multiple sources who regularly communicate with Jordan also scoffed at
the idea that Jordan, who’s known for writing only brief, one- or
two-word texts, if at all, would sit down and type out a
multi-paragraph narrative with precise, legal citations akin to a
lengthy court brief.

“The idea that Jordan would sit down and punch out a long-winded legal
argument via text is absurd,” one individual who regularly talks to
Jordan told The Federalist. “That’s just not how he works.”

One Republican colleague of Jordan laughed out loud when asked by The
Federalist if Jordan was known for sending lengthy texts.

“If he texts at all, it’s usually something like ‘yes’ or ‘call me,’”
that colleague said.

Another GOP lawmaker echoed those sentiments about Jordan’s tech habits.

“That’s just not Jim’s style,” one lawmaker close to Jordan told The
Federalist. “Long, nerdy paragraphs might be my style, but that’s not
Jim’s style at all.”

“Plus, you have to remember what was going on at that time,” the
lawmaker noted. “People were sending around these law review articles
and debates left and right because we had an interest in learning the
facts and getting them right. And if it’s somehow seditious in this
country to debate or share a law review article on Alexander
Hamilton’s view on things, that’s not really a country I want to be a
part of anymore.”

Schiff and his team have a long history of doctoring and fabricating
evidence to show their political enemies in the worst possible light.
While Trump, Jr. was testifying during a 2017 congressional hearing on
the Russian collusion hoax, Schiff’s committee leaked to CNN and NBC
emails purportedly from Trump, Jr. that showed he had communicated
with someone about hacked WikiLeaks documents prior to their public
release.

In reality, despite each network claiming that it had verified the
claims about the emails (CNN even falsely claimed that Trump, Jr.’s
own attorney had “verified” the network’s reporting), each network
botched the dates on the document. Rather than prove that the
president’s oldest son had been privately colluding with WikiLeaks
about documents the organization had illegally obtained, the real
emails — not those doctored by Schiff or his committee — showed only
that a random person with no connection to Trump, Jr. had found his
email address and sent the information to him after the documents were
already publicly available.

During 2019 impeachment hearings against Trump, Schiff went back to
that same playbook and doctored a transcript of a telephone call
between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. After
getting skewered for fabricating the transcript of a phone
conversation between two world leaders, Schiff later claimed, without
evidence, that his version of the call was only meant to be a parody,
rather than a verbatim account of the phone call.

    In opening statement, Rep. Schiff makes up dialogue to represent
what Trump said to Zelensky. A rough transcript of the president's
words exists, and is available, but Schiff's version is more dramatic.
pic.twitter.com/f7gS4KIPge

    — Byron York (@ByronYork) September 26, 2019

    Rep. Schiff re-writes the call transcript for added drama: "I’m
going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good, I want
you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it,
on this and on that, I’m going to put you in touch with people"
pic.twitter.com/1rV7BpEN6o

    — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 26, 2019

Schiff also lied about his interactions with the so-called
whistleblower whose leak of the phone call between Trump and Zelensky
was used by House Democrats as a pretext for impeaching Trump and
overturning the 2016 election results.

Coincidentally, Schiff’s lie came in response to a question during a
November 2019 hearing from Jordan about interactions between Schiff
and his staff and the so-called whistleblower.

“First, as the gentleman knows,” Schiff lectured, “that’s a false
statement. I do not know the identity of the whistleblower.” However,
according to a report from The New York Times, the so-called
whistleblower personally contacted Schiff’s office before the
so-called whistleblower ever even filed his complaint against Trump
with the inspector general that is supposed to oversee the country’s
federal spy agencies.

“Schiff, House Intel Chairman, Got Early Account of Whistle-Blower’s
Accusations,” The New York Times headline noted.

Schiff’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment about
the doctored text messages from Jordan.