Adam Schiff is nothing if not hypocritical. During his two-week Democratic-run impeachment inquiry sham, he intimated that the House might charge Donald Trump with was obstruction of justice for instructing certain witnesses not to testify. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, Schiff is singing a different tune. When asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday whether he would testify in a Senate impeachment trial, as the president had demanded, he replied no, adding:
What would I offer in terms of testimony? That I heard [former National Security Council senior director for Europe and Russia Fiona Hill] say such and such?
It’s an interesting question since Hill and other witnesses at the Schiff’s spectacle testified to little more than having said they heard the president speak to his Ukrainian counterpart on July 25.
Naturally, there are legitimate questions for Schiff to answer under oath. One is how early he met with the so-called whistleblower. Another is whether he knows the whistleblower’s name. (He has made conflicting statements on that point.)
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Showing a flare for the ironic, Schiff also said that if Republicans “go down this road” of asking him to testify, it would show a “fundamental lack of seriousness” and turn the impeachment trial into a “circus like the president would like.”
To use the word circus after the travesty he has conducted for the past two weeks rises to the level of an unfunny joke.
