{"id":11161,"date":"2025-03-25T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:41:10","slug":"bongino-called-out-schiff-before-trump-appointed-him-deputy-fbi-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=11161","title":{"rendered":"Bongino Called Out Schiff Before Trump Appointed Him Deputy FBI Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dan Bongino called out Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on his popular podcast just a few days before President Donald Trump named him deputy director of the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy is Adam Schiff so worried? I strongly encourage you to go back and take another look today at the Russia collusion hoax,\u201d Bongino began during a segment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After noting that the story is now several years old, Bongino added: \u201cI\u2019m gonna be straight with you. I don\u2019t wanna move on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had the FBI in conjunction with the Department of Justice, officials in Congress, foreign governments and intel people fabricate a story, invent a story that could have caused and done serious long-term harm to international relations with a nuclear-powered foe,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a big freakin\u2019 deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cListen to me \u2014 this is gonna be very important in the coming days,\u201d he went on, perhaps dropping a hint that he was about to be appointed to the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not letting this go. I wanna find out what happened because it can never happen again. Not to a Democrat. Not a Republican. Not to a Libertarian. Not to any United States citizen,\u201d Bongino said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou do not get to alter or try to change the course of electoral politics by fabricating a story hijacking the justice system then to give the patina of truth to a fake story,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou don\u2019t get to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy do I bring that up now? Because who was the ringmaster of that circus? Yes, Adam Schiff, and no, I\u2019m not letting it go,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1894051347957268899<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be noted that former President Joe Biden granted Schiff a pre-emptive pardon for his role on the Democrat-controlled Jan. 6 Commission, though he went on to call it \u201cunnecessary\u201d and \u201cunwise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI continue to believe that the grant of pardons to a committee that undertook such important work to uphold the law was unnecessary, and because of the precedent it establishes, unwise,\u201d Schiff said in a statement. \u201cBut I certainly understand why President Biden believed he needed to take this step in light of the persistent and baseless threats issued by Donald Trump and individuals who are now some of his law enforcement nominees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, however, Schiff did not reject the pardon outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those \u201cfull and unconditional\u201d pardons cover any offenses tied to the \u201cactivities or subject matter\u201d of the committee and are not restricted to a specific time period, The Hill reported<\/a>. But it isn\u2019t clear \u2014 yet \u2014 if the pre-emptive pardon covers any potential illegality that Schiff may have allegedly engaged in regarding his repeatedly false claims that Trump was a Russian asset or that he was acting on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) chaired the committee, and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) served as second-in-command as vice chair. Other members included then-Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Elaine Luria (D-Va.) and Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), current Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a joint statement Monday, Thompson and Cheney said they were pardoned \u201cnot for breaking the law but for upholding it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are indeed \u2018extraordinary circumstances\u2019 when public servants are pardoned to prevent false prosecution by the government for having worked faithfully as Members of Congress to expose the facts of a months-long criminal effort to override the will of the voters after the 2020 elections, including by inciting a violent insurrection to thwart the peaceful transfer of power,\u201d they said in the statement,\u00a0posted to the social media platform X.<\/p>\n

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