It’s difficult for the blood to drain from Rep. Adam Schiff’s face. In case you haven’t noticed — and the media seems to be perfectly willing to not pay attention — the California Democrat and chair of the House Intelligence Committee is giving President Donald Trump quite a run for his money in terms of having an orange hue.
Yet, according to Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the color actually managed to drain from Schiff’s face when confronted with his own words about the July phone call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
To be fair, there’s no actual video of this, although I’d love to have seen it, it had to have been impressive. You can’t just have normal veins to do this. You’d need industrial-strength stuff that can evacuate blood from the capillaries underneath the cheeks and the chin with impressive speed.
Heck, you’d almost need blood vessels that can somehow reverse flow so that the blood can drain on a moment’s notice.
I’ve seen Adam Schiff’s face. We’re not talking Ted Kennedy-level florid here, but still, you’d need some lightning-fast blood training capabilities.
Just so you’re aware, this is the video that apparently caused Adam Schiff to take on a nearly impossible pallor:
Conference Chairman @SenJohnBarrasso:
When @realdonaldtrump's counsel read the transcript of the phone call and then played the video of Adam Schiff with his fictionalized made up script…
The blood drained from Adam Schiff’s face as they played that video. pic.twitter.com/IYHtgJroqg
— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) January 25, 2020
If this was hyperbole, it wasn’t necessarily hyperbole outside the realm of possibility. Here’s the map of the Senate floor:
Senator Barrasso, who wears glasses and sits toward the center of the second row on the Republican side, claimed that he saw the blood drain from Rep. Schiff's face when confronted with his description of the Trump-Zelensky transcript.
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) January 25, 2020
Where Barrasso sits, per this handy Senate chart. h/t @BBuchman_CNS https://t.co/xYDivqhsc6 pic.twitter.com/Rby2b5GA16
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) January 25, 2020
Given that Schiff was right up front, Barrasso could have seen the blood drain from his face and the fake tan melt off. (Allegedly, cough cough, wink wink.)
Did this actually happen? We’ll never really know, since, despite all of the cameras in a tiny deliberative chamber, none were trained on Schiff at the time. Barrasso isn’t a known prevaricator or embellisher, for one. And beyond that, there’s the issue of the strength of Schiff’s evidence, or lack thereof.
The Democrats have tried to paint the impeachment trial as if it were a criminal proceeding, not a political stunt. Yet, even Schiff knows that this case wouldn’t hold up in a real court.
If mini-Orange Man wants to continue down this path, I can assure him that he’s going to have a lot more moments that end up with the blood draining from his face.
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