{"id":122417,"date":"2019-05-12T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122417"},"modified":"2019-05-12T17:18:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:18:50","slug":"there-are-no-limits-to-the-naked-corruption-and-incessant-deception-of-shifty-adam-schiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122417","title":{"rendered":"There are no limits to the naked corruption and incessant deception of Shifty Adam Schiff."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Schiff: Biden Ukraine Scandal Should Be Off Limits<\/h1>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Sunday\u00a0that Joe Biden&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/01\/us\/politics\/biden-son-ukraine.html\">Ukraine corruption scandal<\/a>\u00a0should be off limits as the 2020 US election approaches, and that President Trump shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to investigate &#8211; or encourage Ukraine to investigate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg?itok=HhD6SC2Z\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg?itok=HhD6SC2Z\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg?itok=Fmf102nD 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg?itok=Fmf102nD 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg?itok=Fmf102nD 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg?itok=Fmf102nD 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg?itok=Fmf102nD 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg?itok=HhD6SC2Z 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/schiff%201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a1c7d5f9-d0b6-4ca2-959c-f59e95a69fa0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden has come under fire for a\u00a0March, 2016 incident in Kiev in which he\u00a0threatened\u00a0to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees to Ukraine unless President Petro Poroshenko\u00a0fired his head prosecutor,\u00a0General Viktor Shokin,\u00a0<strong>who was leading a wide-ranging corruption\u00a0investigation into natural gas firm Burisma Holdings.\u00a0<\/strong>As it so happens, Joe&#8217;s son Hunter Biden sat on Burisma&#8217;s board, and waas\u00a0<strong>indirectly paid\u00a0as much as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/01\/us\/politics\/biden-son-ukraine.html\">$50,000 per month<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg?itok=i2Wborr8\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg?itok=i2Wborr8\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg?itok=zkdo9sKu 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg?itok=zkdo9sKu 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg?itok=zkdo9sKu 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg?itok=zkdo9sKu 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg?itok=zkdo9sKu 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg?itok=i2Wborr8 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/joe%20and%20hunter%201_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"38589aee-b0a8-4727-a448-077bf809e361\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\">\n<aside id=\"article-outstream\">\n<div id=\"my_spring1\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8216;I said, \u2018<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">You\u2019re not getting the billion<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">.\u2019 I\u2019m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: \u2018<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I\u2019m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you\u2019re not getting the money,<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2019&#8221; bragged Biden, recalling the conversation with Poroshenko.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Well, son of a bitch, he got fired,<\/strong>&#8221; Biden gloated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid961892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q0_AqpdwqK4?start=3128\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden claims\u00a0<b>he didn&#8217;t know Hunter was on the Burisma board for an entire two years\u00a0<\/b>(Hunter\u00a0reportedly joined in April 2014, two years before Biden&#8217;s threat), and that the effort to remove Shokin had nothing to do with the &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shokin was fired because he attacked the reformers within the prosecutor general\u2019s office,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>And this should be completely off limits to Trump, according to Adam Schiff\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Schiff told &#8216;This Week&#8217; that Congress should take up legislation\u00a0<strong>banning political campaigns from working with foreign governments<\/strong>\u00a0in an effort to influence US elections, responding to news that Trump&#8217;s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, had planned to travel to Ukraine to encourage them to further investigate the Biden matter. Giuliani has since canceled the trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Going after his son is just a method of going after someone the president believes is his most formidable opponent<\/strong>,&#8221; Schiff told\u00a0<em>ABC&#8217;<\/em>s &#8216;This Week.&#8217; &#8220;So let the president go after him, but\u00a0<strong>don\u2019t seek the help of a foreign government in your election<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid251450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pc1043tczwU?start=354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In\u00a0March,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/hilltv\/rising\/434892-senior-ukrainian-justice-official-says-hes-opened-probe-into-us-election?amp&amp;__twitter_impression=true\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s John Solomon revealed that\u00a0Ukraine&#8217;s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has launched an investigation\u00a0<strong>into the head of the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau for allegedly attempting\u00a0to help Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump during the 2016 US election\u00a0<\/strong>by releasing damaging information about a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html\">black ledger<\/a>&#8221; of illegal business dealings by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1127441664325378048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1127441664325378048&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2019-05-12%2Fschiff-says-biden-ukraine-scandal-should-be-limits<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Trump told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/05\/10\/trump-biden-ukraine-barr-1317601\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on Friday that\u00a0<strong>it would be &#8220;appropriate&#8221; for him to ask Attorney General William Barr about launching an investigation into Biden, or his son Hunter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1127441664325378048\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Certainly it would be an appropriate thing to speak to him about, but I have not done that as of yet. \u2026 It could be a very big situation,&#8221; said Trump during a 15-minute phone interview Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times earlier this month reported on Giuliani\u2019s efforts to investigate and publicize the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The president argued that the alleged conflict of interest, or appearance thereof, was not mushrooming into an all-out scandal because Biden is a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause he\u2019s a Democrat,\u201d Trump said, the report had about \u201cone-hundredth\u201d the impact as it would have if he \u201cwere a Republican.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/05\/10\/trump-biden-ukraine-barr-1317601\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To recap; Biden didn&#8217;t know his son Hunter was on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas firm for a full\u00a0<strong>two years, before threatening to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees\u00a0<\/strong>if the President of Ukraine didn&#8217;t fire the guy\u00a0<strong>investigating the Biden-linked Burisma<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Adam Schiff thinks that should be off limits to investigate, or\u00a0for voters to consider,<\/strong>\u00a0going into the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-05-12\/schiff-says-biden-ukraine-scandal-should-be-limits\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-05-12\/schiff-says-biden-ukraine-scandal-should-be-limits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schiff: Biden Ukraine Scandal Should Be Off Limits ZeroHedge.com House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Sunday\u00a0that Joe Biden&#8217;s\u00a0Ukraine corruption scandal\u00a0should be off limits as the 2020 US election approaches, and that President Trump shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to &hellip; 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