Schiff: No, the memo doesn’t vindicate Trump

The following article by Brent D. Griffiths was posted on the Politico website February 4, 2018:

“Sources are going to dry up because of what the Republicans on the committee are doing now,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) of fallout from the Nunes memo. Credit: John Shinkle/POLITICO

House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff said Sunday that the Republican memo about alleged FBI misconduct does not vindicate President Donald Trump.

“Of course not at all,” Schiff (D-Calif.) told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”

“What the memo indicates is the investigation didn’t begin with Carter Page, it actually began with George Papadopoulos, someone who was a foreign policy adviser for candidate Trump and someone who was meeting secretly with the Russians and talking about the stolen Clinton e-mails,” Schiff said. Continue reading “Schiff: No, the memo doesn’t vindicate Trump”