Schiff: Trump requests to China, Ukraine are 'fundamental breach' of office
By Mike Lillis - 10/03/19 02:15 PM EDT
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Thursday blasted President Trump for asking China and Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, calling it a "fundamental breach" of presidential decorum and a threat to national security.
Emerging from a closed-door meeting in the Capitol basement, where lawmakers from three committees are interviewing a key witness as part of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry, Schiff said the comments are evidence that Trump has ignored the lessons from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference — and Mueller's warnings of ongoing foreign influence over critical domestic affairs.
"To have the president of the United States suggesting — urging — a foreign country to interfere in our presidential elections is an illustration that this president, if he learned anything from the two years of the Mueller investigation, it's that he feels he can do anything with impunity," Schiff told a crowd of reporters staking out the meeting.
"The president of the United States encouraging a foreign nation to interfere again to help his campaign by investigating a rival is a fundamental breach of the presidential oath of office," Schiff continued. "It endangers our elections; it endangers our national security. It ought to be condemned by every member of this body, Democrats and Republicans alike."
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