The Schiff show continues to rely on hyperbole and misinformation to justify his coup attempt

Michael Goodwin:

Say this for Rep. Adam Schiff: His imagination is vivid and he has a flair for the dramatic. If only he had more respect for facts and a tighter tether to reality.

The California attack dog is, in real life, a frustrated writer of rejected screenplays, and he’s produced another dud in the Democrats’ impeachment report. Released Tuesday, it offers nothing new of significance, but that didn’t stop Schiff from hyping the contents as something akin to the second coming of Richard Nixon.

While the vast majority of Americans found something else to do than watch the mind-numbing hours of public testimony, Schiff depicts the hearings he orchestrated as pivotal events in modern history. While Trump is in Europe dealing with crucial national security issues and is a growing favorite to win re-election, Schiff insists he’s doing “potentially irrevocable” damage to the system of checks and balances and is a threat to the Constitution.

But it’s in the concluding paragraphs of his introduction where Schiff fully unleashes his Hollywood imagination. Implicitly conceding that impeachment has become a one-party quest to bring down a president, he tries to turn the tables by saying it’s Republican refusal to help that fulfills the warnings of George Washington and other Founders about the dangers of “excessive factionalism.”

“The President and his allies are making a comprehensive attack on the very idea of fact and truth,” he writes. “How can a democracy survive without acceptance of a common set of experiences?”

That’s a fabulous question — and I can’t wait to hear how Schiff and his party answer it. After all, they are the ones shattering historic norms by pursuing a partisan impeachment, in an election year no less. Trump Derangement Syndrome is not an acceptable excuse.

Fortunately, most Americans have more respect for facts than Schiff does and realize that impeachment should be reserved for egregious misconduct. To the fair-minded, the burden falls on the impeachers to build such a strong case that the appeal will be compelling and automatically cut across party lines.

Schiff failed to do that, and it’s not Republicans’ fault. He tortured the investigation process just as he now tortures language, but no amount of distortion and spin can turn Trump’s dealings with Ukraine into an impeachable offense.
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Schiff failed to make his case because he did not have facts to justify his conclusions.  He shamed himself and his party and deserves to be defeated on this illogical coup attempt.