Schiff Caught Twisting Impeachment Evidence; Media Fact-Check Trump Attorneys, Instead

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Schiff Caught Twisting Impeachment Evidence; Media Fact-Check Trump Attorneys, Instead
By Kristine Marsh | January 22, 2020 11:01 AM EST

Tuesday evening, Politico published a story revealing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) completely “mischaracterized,” a text message exchange between Rudy Giuliani and his former business associate, Lev Parnas. However, this revelation didn’t make the cut on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN or MSNBC on Tuesday all the way into Wednesday morning.

Politico’s Melanie Zenanona reported that Schiff “appears to have mischaracterized a text message exchange” between these “two players in the Ukraine saga.” In a letter Schiff sent to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) last week, he claimed that Parnas “continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky.”

Schiff then cites a text message between Parnas and Giuliani talking about “mr. Z” as evidence of that. However the unredacted copy obtained by Politico, reveals that Parnas was clearly referring to the head of Burisma, not Ukrainian President Zelensky:
 

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