Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee issues a dire warning from
this story Business Insider story with this headline:
“Rep. Adam Schiff says it's unthinkable' to imagine
what might happen if the U.S. is forced to suffer another 4 years under Donald
Trump”
· Adam Schiff said he cannot imagine what would
happen if the U.S. were forced to suffer another Trump presidency.
· He told Business Insider the prospect of Trump
running again in 2024 and winning is unthinkable.
· He also said the most astonishing part of
Trump's rise to power is how many Republicans capitulated to him.
Schiff was the lawmaker who led then-President Trump's first
impeachment proceedings said he cannot imagine what will happen in the U.S. if
Trump runs for election in 2024 and wins, adding: “I cannot imagine what this
country would look like if it were forced to suffer another four years under
Donald Trump. He's already done irrevocable damage to the country. We will
recover from this presidency, but it will take years. Should the country have
to go through that again, I just can't imagine what our democracy will look
like. It's unthinkable. Every effort must be made to make sure that it never comes
to pass.”
Schiff's book: “Midnight in Washington: How We Lost OurDemocracy and Still Could,” was released October 5. In his memoir, he details
at length his early life and professional background; how witnessing
nationalism and xenophobic populism in eastern Europe in the 1990s prepared him
for Trump's rise to power; and how he went from a relatively low-profile
congressman on the intelligence committee to the Republican Party's bete noire (nightmare)
in just four years.
Schiff highlighted the widening schism between Democrats and
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee – a historically bipartisan
panel – following Trump's ascent to the Oval Office, and how he steered the
committee in a different direction after becoming chairman in early 2019. Under
Schiff's leadership, the intelligence committee took center stage in
investigating Trump's personal life and businesses, and conducting his first
impeachment inquiry in connection to the president's dealings with Ukraine
ahead of the 2020 election.
Schiff Business Insider that watching Trump's rise to power carried “disturbing echoes of the past for him.” He was referring to his time living in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s and witnessing the rise of the populist autocrat Vladimir Meciar, saying: “Meciar literally helped tear the country apart, and the country split while I was there.” (Schiff was referring to the 1993 split that led to Slovakia and the Czech Republic).
“Now fast forward to the rise of Donald Trump, who played on many of the same xenophobic populist themes, what surprised me is how many of my Republican colleagues would go along with that. How many of them would sacrifice everything they believed in, their ideology, their party's ideology, their morality in the service of this deeply flawed, unethical human being. And how Donald Trump would in four short years completely remake one of America's two great parties in his image. That was astonishing. It still is.”
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on this article.
My 2 Cents: Nothing to add to this story except to also offer this excellent related article from Rolling Stone. It’s too long to post here, so check it out for yourself.
BTW: Schiff has
been right more than once about Trump and he hit’s the mark again.
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