5 Assumptions That Lead To Garbage Conclusions In Schiff’s Impeachment Report
Schiff's 300-page Trump-Ukraine impeachment report is what you would expect after two weeks of hearsay and opinion testimony: unsupported conclusions based upon faulty assumptions.
By Adam Mill
December 5, 2019
House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff has released a 300-page Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry report. It’s what you would expect of a rushed report after two weeks of hearsay and opinion testimony: full of unsupported conclusions based upon faulty assumptions.
Garbage assumptions lead to garbage conclusions. Below is a list of several key assumptions Schiff totally failed to support in the report.
1. If You Believe Ukraine Interfered in the 2016 Election, You Must Believe Russia Didn’t
Schiff wrote, “The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations … into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election.†Schiff presented no evidence supporting the assumption that believing Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election requires one to believe Russia didn’t.
Schiff attributed this finding to the intelligence community, writing, “[T]he U.S. Intelligence Community had unanimously determined that Russia, not Ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election to help the candidacy of Donald Trump.†When did the intelligence community unanimously conclude that Ukraine didn’t interfere in the 2016 election? Schiff provides no evidence for that claim because it simply is not true.
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