Adam Schiff Caught “Mischaracterizing” Evidence Day One Of Senate Impeachment Trial

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was caught “mischaracterizing” evidence on day one, Tuesday, of the Senate impeachment trial. 

The left-leaning Politico claims that Schiff released inaccurate information about a text message between Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas on July 3, 2019, about organizing a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 

Schiff’s report was sent to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) last week that summarizes “a trove of evidence from Lev Parnas, an indicted former associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani,” Politico reported. 

Watch Schiff make up more fake dialogue

It was bad enough he made up the President’s phone call in the House, now he’s fabricating what the president of Ukraine said (no pressure) in the Senate

Democrats have no case, so they just make schiff up pic.twitter.com/R2nNJrCiZt

— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) January 22, 2020

The report claims in a text message conversation between Giuliani and Parnas, Parnas said: “trying to get us mr Z.” The remainder of the letter was redacted. 

Politico added, “But an unredacted version of the exchange shows that several days later, Parnas sent Giuliani a word document that appears to show notes from an interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, followed by a text message to Giuliani that states: ‘mr Z answers my brother.’ That suggests Parnas was referring to Zlochevsky, not Zelensky.”

A Republican aide told Politico that Schiff’s assumption that “mr Z” is Zelensky is ludicrous.

“The most charitable view of the situation is that [Schiff’s] staff committed the equivalent of Congressional malpractice by not looking more than an inch deep to determine the facts before foisting this erroneous information on his colleagues and the American public,” said one senior GOP aide.

“But given the selective redactions and contextual clues, it seems as though Chairman Schiff sought to portray an innocuous meeting with Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky as an insidious one with the President of Ukraine simply because both of their surnames start with the letter Z,” the GOP aide added. 

“Mischaracterized”? Yeah right… It’s Schiff. He’s a liar. Schiff may have mischaracterized Parnas evidence, documents show https://t.co/KaCjfdVbMp via @politico

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) January 22, 2020

Sleazeball Schiff busted AGAIN! This dude simply cannot tell the truth. He’s allergic to facts. Don’t trust a word out of his lying mouth. https://t.co/S6XLdX54kK

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) January 22, 2020

Schiff has issued false information in Trump-related investigations before. 

It was reported in September 2019 that Schiff fabricated the account of a July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky, to analogize the interaction to a scene from a mafia drama.

And last month, Schiff said during a Fox News interview that he wasn’t willing to admit wrong in his defense of the FBI’s FISA process: “I’m certainly willing to admit that the inspector general found serious abuses of FISA that I was unaware of.”

Trump responded by saying, “Schiff’s correcting the record memo has turned out to be totally wrong (based on the I.G. Report)! A very big lie. @MariaBartiromo And @DevinNunes has turned out to be completely right. Congratulations to Devin. The Fake News Media should apologize to all!” 

Schiff’s correcting the record memo has turned out to be totally wrong (based on the I.G. Report)! A very big lie. @MariaBartiromo And @DevinNunes has turned out to be completely right. Congratulations to Devin. The Fake News Media should apologize to all!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2019