Conservative hard-liners fill vacuum to counterpunch for Trump
Mark Meadows’ gaze was scrupulously trained on Adam B. Schiff.
On Oct. 3, after deposing a former Trump official for hours, Schiff, the House Intelligence chairman, emerged from a secure room in the Capitol’s basement and addressed a waiting television camera.
“Encouraging a foreign nation to interfere again, to help his campaign,” the California Democrat said of President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. That conversation has become the focus of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, and Schiff and party leaders argue it represents a “fundamental breach of the president’s oath of office.”
View the complete October 15 article by Patrick Kelley on The Roll Call website here.