News Opinons Politics

Schiff Suggests Pence ‘Purposefully’ Misled Intelligence Committee about His Call with Zelensky

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff accused Vice President Mike Pence of refusing to declassify information “directly relevant” to the impeachment inquiry in order to conceal his role in the quid pro quo scheme for which President Trump is being impeached.

Pence’s Russia adviser Jennifer Williams testified last month about the vice president’s September 18 phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Schiff requested ten days later that Pence declassify her testimony, contained in a November 26 letter from her lawyer, but Pence last week declined to do so in a letter to Schiff.

The testimony “raises profound questions about your knowledge of the President’s scheme to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” Schiff wrote in a Tuesday letter to Pence, adding that Pence’s letter refusing to classify Williams’s testimony is “deeply troubling.”


“Without prompting, the letter volunteers that ‘the Vice President never raised the Bidens, Burisma, or Crowdstrike in his conversations with President Zelensky,’” Schiff wrote, referring to Pence’s letter. “The Committee neither asserted that, nor asked whether, you specifically used those words.”


Not Exaggerating: Dem Lawmaker’s Bill Would Make It Legal to Attack Police Officers
Joe Biden Called Kamala Harris with an ‘Unusual’ Admonition the Day She Debated Trump: Book
Trump to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to fast-track deportations of illegal immigrants
Hear the death threats Republican senator received about Trump
Superstar Gwen Stefani Blasted for Daring to Promote Tucker Carlson’s Show, Christianity
Trump asks Supreme Court to help him end birthright citizenship
Universities that enable protest encampments would lose funding under proposed law
Watch: Police Move In as Agitators Refuse Order to Leave Trump Tower
Transgender lawmaker slams Republicans’ ‘bizarre’ focus on culture wars
Canada warns it’s ‘canary in the coal mine’ for Trump aggression as G7 gathers in Quebec
Nationwide Border Patrol gotaways plummet to 21-day daily average of just 77: ‘Trump Effect’
Watch: Fed-Up Brett Favre Can’t Restrain Himself Any Longer, Lets Whoopi Goldberg Have It Over Trans Athletes
Protesters supporting Mahmoud Khalil occupy Trump Tower lobby
Trump softens Gaza stance, says Palestinians will not be expelled from the war-torn territory
Trump Withdraws CDC Nominee Amid Vaccine Criticism

See also  Who is Ed Martin, DC’s new US Attorney who says he’s one of ‘Trump’s lawyers’?

Williams’s testimony directly conflicts with Pence’s statements, Schiff said, raising concerns that Pence could have been “purposefully misleading” the Intelligence Committee about his conversation with Zelensky.

“Your unwillingness to declassify the Supplemental Submission raises the serious question of whether your continuing efforts to obstruct the House’s impeachment inquiry are intended not just to protect President Trump, but yourself as well,” Schiff stated in his letter.

Pence’s office has declined to comment.

The House is set to hold a full House vote to impeach President Trump on two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

The nearly three-month impeachment inquiry investigated whether Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Ukraine by temporarily delaying U.S. military aid to the NATO ally while pressuring the country to announce an investigation into his political rival, former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

Story cited here.

Share this article:
Share on Facebook
Facebook
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter