While the Democratic Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam “Shifty” Schiff, continues to reign supreme over the impeachment inquiry, he is not immune from being held accountable outside of those chambers.
Schiff is at the center of a libel lawsuit filed by a White House official against Politico.
Kash Patel, the National Security Council’s senior counterterrorism director is suing Politico and one of its reporters over stories and tweets that he says falsely accused him of “lying, deceit and unethical conduct.”
Patel is seeking more than $25 million in damages in the suit filed in Virginia. The lawsuit also names Natasha Bertrand, a Politico reporter, and MSNBC contributor, as well as Politico owner Robert Allbritton. The allegations, which center on what the president was told about the situation in Ukraine, go to the heart of the case for impeachment. Politico spokesman Brad Dayspring told Fox News, “This lawsuit is high on bombast and low on merit. It is unserious and is a public relations tactic designed to intimidate journalists and media organizations from doing their job.”
That may be so, but what it is more designed to do is send a clear message to Schiff, and how he has been unabashedly mishandling the impeachment inquiry. While Politico is the nominal target of the suit, in reality, it represents an aggressive attempt by a presidential aide to put Adam Schiff’s handling of the impeachment inquiry itself on trial.
In the suit, Patel describes Schiff as “a demagogue with an ax to grind against the president.” Patel goes on to portrays Schiff as often running roughshod over rules and interviewing witnesses “to create click-bait headlines and soundbites to feed to his co-conspirators and media sympathizers.”
The Core of the Lawsuit
The suit stems from Bertrand’s Politico piece of Oct. 23, headlined “Nunes Protégé Fed Ukraine Info to Trump.” Patel previously worked for Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, spearheading the Intel Committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, before joining the White House in February – hence the “protégé” reference.
The Politico piece said Patel “was among those passing negative information about Ukraine to President Donald Trump earlier this year, fueling the president’s belief that Ukraine was brimming with corruption and interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Democrats.”
The story claimed that Patel was “so involved in the issue,” that “at one point Trump thought he was in charge of Ukraine policy for the National Security Council.”
This description of Patel by Bertrand was attributed to closed-door House testimony by Fiona Hill, a former NSC official. What’s more, Politico said, “Patel’s involvement demonstrates that the president had at least some support for the scheme from within the NSC” — the “scheme” being to pressure Ukraine into investigations that would help Trump politically.
According to the suit, this depiction of Patel’s role in the matter is false and libelous. In fact, Patel’s suit says, “at no time” before Oct. 30 “had Kash ever communicated with the president on any matters involving Ukraine. Kash never supplied any Ukraine ‘materials’ to the president.”
Patel issued a public denial earlier this month, saying a number of media outlets “have falsely reported that…I have communicated with President Trump regarding Ukraine.”
Biden is “embarrassed, disappointed” by Sen. Graham asking docs son Biden not embarrassed by son,caring for 49 year old son’s fanny. Ha ha.OUR MONEY AGAIN
- doing coke
- getting kicked out of Navy
- making corrupt millions in Ukraine- cheating on bros widow, lying about paternit
I hope more people stand up and fight back. Sue them. Sue them
The left wing Press “reporting”is all about “smearing lies” against “opponents” to Democrat policies or candidates, AND building up the persons who support their ideologies!
This is absolutely so clear (and hilarious) when EVERY anchor or guest REGURGITATES THE SAME ADJECTIVES and TALKING POINTS!
Talk about dumb, unintelligent, corralled, robot” reporting! That’s the left wing news media “doing their job”!
Judicial Watch has exposed Zuckermother instructing the anchors to repeat his talking points!
Apparently, schiff, piglosi and the rest of these scum bags are STRUGGLING with life every day, in order to help them with their life STRUGGLES, let’s get them all INDICTED, TRIED and CONVICTED of sedition/treason and then HANG them….NO more STRUGGLES and we can sing KUMBAYAH…..!!!!
I am responding to Emma L….these are some real “clean-cut” people, he…????
The Dems (Libs.. for certain) cannot stand it when the tables are turned on them. Lets’ all look at the Clinton foundation and Hilary’s e-mails for crimes and corruption. P
Biden and his son are one of the biggest jokes and liers of the century. Lock then up!
Emma, your name is also that of the smart beloved sister in “Little Women” however, unlike the fictional Emma, you very clearly have a small mind as is evidenced by your attack on Senator Biden’s son Hunter who has been convicted of nothing except in the undeveloped and small minds of those that tune in daily to FoxNews as their only source of information and general B.S. that they then pass on as fact instead of the actual fake news that it is. The insulting, degrading, and disgusting comments that your half-wit president spouts daily about Adam Schiff deserves the garbage heap as toes virtually 100% of the tweet this piece of human scum you helped elect to the most honorable office in our country and who has defiled it to the point that we have lost the respect of most of the nations in the world and his daily lies have put his credibility at zero. In your heart of hearts you surely must realize that Trump, as our president is both a danger to his country and the world at large. If you are not worried about him then you join the rest of his supporters as well as the U.S. Senate who walk around every hour of every day with their heads planted firmly and apparently permanently in their own anus. It makes one wonder why, with the foul smell usually attributed to that area of our anatomy, anyone would prefer that to waking every morning to smell the roses that actually still exist in spite of Trump’s vile presidency. You poor thing; you see, I’m worried about you.
The Politico “spokesman” said Mr. Patel’s lawsuit is to “Intimidate media organizations from doing their job” – what Democrat and left wing propaganda and attack statements!
Media organizations such as CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, The NYT, and other left leaning news outlets have been attacking the President in everything he has done, they have been the “smearing arm” of Intelligence Community corrupt officials (of the FBI, CIA, NSC) & other agencies – for 3 years now, regurgitating the slanderous & false Russian connection that the SIMPSON (FUSION GPS) DOSSIER put together to be disseminated throughout the 17 IC agencies throughout the government- to frame candidate & President Trump!
The Democrat left “media organizations” ARE Co-conspirators in the worst political SCANDAL in U.S. History.
There is plenty of evidence! All Americans have to do is READ the many Congressional testimonies of Comey, Strozk, Page, Bruce & Nellie Ohr, texts of McCabe & Rosenstein, & the omissions of evidence withheld in the Mueller report. Read the IG Reports on Comey as FBI Dir., the IG Report on abuses of Human Spy Sources, the Russia report, (44 findings!) to include James Clapper LEAKING classified info to the left wing press (CNN)!
And the upcoming IG report on FISA abuses by the FBI.
The left wing media organizations have absolutely been in high gear of “doing their job” as part of the coup to try and destroy a Republican political candidate for 3 years now. They have been brainwashing Americans who have not read these FACTUAL REPORTS. And history will be forever memorialized. The corrupt press will NEVER be able to destroy those facts!
PUT Schiff in jail
Americans know what Schiff is doing and its not working at all, in fact its actually working against Dems and more and more voters are flocking to support Trump and donations are pouring in. Dec 9 the FISA reports start coming out and this is the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party and Americans are demanding indictments for all involved.
SCHIFF IS BAD LIEEEER
I told my friends and family when this started, that it would backfire on the Dems. They have kicked the Hornets nest and are running scared,
When someone writes an piece of writing he/she maintains the thought of
a user in his/her mind that how a user can know it.
Thus that’s why this post is outstdanding.
Thanks!
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