OPINION:
When I was in law enforcement many years ago, if someone came in and filed a false report against another person and we later learned it was false, they would be arrested. After watching Reps. Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler at President Trump’s impeachment hearing fabricating evidence and lying by omission, I strongly believe that they should be charged by the FBI with criminal acts and brought before the Office of Congressional Ethics for violating their oaths of office.
If anyone outside of politics had committed the crimes Mr. Schiff, Mr. Nadler, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have committed, they would be prosecuted and sent to prison. These four horsemen of the apocalypse, as I call them, conspired to undermine the president, committing sedition, which means “to cause insurrection or resistance against the government.”
Further, they all said they had evidence of Mr. Trump’s collusion with Russia — but they either withheld it from the Mueller investigators or lied, thereby committing illegal acts.
Attorney Pat Cipollone, representing Mr. Trump at the hearing, said that Mr. Schiff manufactured the transcript, turning it into a parody, but according to the U.S. codes SS 1001, SS 1028 and SS 1038 Mr. Schiff is guilty of tampering with evidence and forging a legal declassified document. He changed the wording without permission, which was a criminal act.
Mr. Trump said that he was told Mr. Schiff had immunity when he entered it into the House record, but prior to that he had already committed forgery, tampering and obstruction of justice. If the FBI and OCE do not do their sworn duties to uphold our laws, they are just as guilty as those I’ve accused.
GREGORY J. TOPLIFF
Warrenville, S.C.
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