The House has defeated a Republican motion to censure Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff 218-185.
CNN’s Manu Raju tweeted:
House kills GOP effort to censure Adam Schiff, 218-185
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 21, 2019
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As I wrote last week, the resolution was an embarrassment, “House Republicans are abusing the censure process to smear a colleague in a bid to save a corrupt president. The resolution is a laundry list of Trump conspiracies, and Fox News gripes. Gambits like the one McCarthy is trying to pull off highlight the fact that Republicans can’t dispute the impeachment evidence, so they are trying to discredit the investigation.”
Republicans are still using the same playbook from when they were in the majority, and they are falling flat on their faces. There were never any grounds to censure Adam Schiff. It was a ploy to give Trump cover to smear the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who is leading the impeachment investigation. Republicans have sold themselves out to Trump and foolish moves like trying to censure Schiff only serve to make the Trump stink of corruption that is coating them all permanent.
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